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LIBERATIONTION INTERNINTERNAATIONTIONALAL Publication of the International Information Office of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines LIBERALIBERATIONTION INTERNINTERNAATIONTIONALAL Publication of the International Information Office of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines March - April 2007 CPP salutes NPA for victories, advances in People’s War By Bagani Dong-ilay n the occasion of the 38th founding anniversary of the ONew People’s Army (NPA) on 29 March 2007, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) commended the NPA for its exemplary and shining achievements in advancing the people’s war. In its statement entitled Why the New People’s Army is invincible and victorious and how the people’s war can rise to a new and higher level, the CPP expressed admiration and gratitude to the Red commanders and fighters of the NPA for their firm commitment, hard Revolutionary masses and cadres gather in a village north of Manila to celebrate the work, sacrifices and achievements in the victories of People’s War in the Philippines. prwc photo. revolutionary struggle. The CPP fittingly bestowed the highest honors to the revolutionary martyrs and to all NPA offensives destroy comrades who have dedicated their lives in serving the Filipino people. enemy units, net 120 firearms The NPA has indeed come a long way since its founding on 29 March 1969, in 4 months from the initial 60 Red fighters with only esponding to the call of the of the biggest NPA arms hauls from the nine automatic rifles and some 26 inferior Communist Party of the enemy in recent years. firearms in the second district of Tarlac Philippines to counter the fascist province in northern Philippines, to so R The raid started at 1:30 early morning of atrocities of the US-Arroyo regime by 7 April when the Red fighters, clad in many thousands of men and women with intensifying tactical offensives, the New Philippine Army uniforms, arrived on automatic rifles and other high-powered People’s Army (NPA) launched several board five vans. They approached the weapons spread throughout the military actions across the country in the two guards manning the gates, and archipelago. last four months which resulted in the pretended that they were having engine annihilation of enemy units and the These are equivalent to a few divisions trouble with one of the vans. As two confiscation of more than 120 high- and regiments or to tens of battalions, guards approached, they were powered firearms and other war materiel. scores of companies, a few hundreds of immediately disarmed while a platoon of platoons or many hundreds of squads The most spectacular among these to page 3, col 1, NPA offensives... nationwide. They are deployed in more successful military actions was the 7 than 120 guerrilla fronts covering April raid on the armory of the Davao INSIDE significant portions of 70 provinces, 800 Penal Colony in Barangay Sto. Tomas, towns or 10,000 of the more than 40,000 Davao del Norte in southern Philippines, NDFP files complaint barrios (villages) of the country. by the Red fighters of the Medardo Arce against Arroyo at UN According to the CPP, “The NPA has Command (MAC). body on disappearances stood as the largest and strongest army Without firing a single shot, the NPA page 4 of the Filipino people in their entire was able to seize 105 rifles, 3 pistols, 2 Arroyo & Bush, history. It has surpassed the level of hand-held radio transceivers and strength of the Philippine revolutionary various types of ammunition. It is one guilty as charged page 5 to page 2, CPP salutes NPA... March - April 2007 1 organized forces of the revolution thrive the spirit of promoting the national- HOMEFRONT and march forward. ization of the economy and fighting To secure the continuing and increasing for national liberation against foreign ... CPP salutes NPA, from page 1 support of the Filipino people necessary domination. army in the old democratic revolution to raise the armed revolution to a higher The cry for justice of the broad against Spanish colonialism and in the level, the CPP enumerated the important masses of the people and the fami- war of resistance against US imperialism tasks that can and should be carried out. lies of the victims of human rights at the start of the 20th century. The NPA violations must be satisfied by pun- has also surpassed by far the scope and Steps should be taken to stop or limit the exploitative and oppressive ac- ishing the Arroyo ruling clique and level of strength attained by the People’s its retinue of traitors, murderers and Army Against Japan (Hukbalahap) tivities of foreign monopoly corpo- rations. Export-oriented mining, log- torturers, plunderers, racketeers and during World War II and the subsequent election-riggers. People’s Liberation Army, whose ging and agricultural operations of backbone was broken by the enemy in the multinational firms and the big In the face of the Arroyo regime’s the early 1950s.” compradors take out the natural heightened total war and fascist wealth of the country and ruin the aggression, the CPP defined the Based on its current spread and environment and the entire economic following central tasks: intensification strength, the Party expressed and social future of the people. of guerrilla warfare to frustrate and defeat confidence that the NPA, with the ardent Oplan Bantay-Laya II; fight to oust the support of the masses, can defeat the Large tracts of land owned or con- trolled by foreign and big comprador Arroyo regime; and further strengthen counterrevolutionary Oplan Bantay and advance the armed revolution. Laya II (Operation Plan Freedom Watch agro-corporations producing for ex- II) as it did the previous Oplan Bantay port must be broken up to make way The first is the most important urgent Laya thrown against it by the current for land reform for the benefit of the task. The NPA is called upon to launch US puppet regime of Gloria Macapagal- poor peasants and farm workers. more frequent tactical offensives in each Arroyo. Steps should also be taken to allow region, province and guerilla front. Filipino entrepreneurs to have greater As the NPA seizes more arms from these The CPP reminded the current regime participation in agriculture. that the NPA was able to survive and tactical offensives, more platoons and grow even stronger when the US’ puppet Agrarian revolution should be ad- companies can be formed and higher dictator Marcos deployed more than vanced from the present level of the levels of command can be set up, 200,000 of its military, police and para- minimum program consisting of re- developing further the capability of the military forces against the then fledgling ducing land rent, raising the wages people’s army. Additionally, the revolutionary movement, in the hope of of farm workers, raising the farm-gate formation of the people’s militia and self- nipping the revolution in the bud. The prices of peasant produce and eradi- defense units of the revolutionary mass movement turned the tables on Marcos cating usury to confiscation of big organizations should be accelerated. landlord property and distributing when the dictatorship fell in 1986 upon The pipe dream of the Arroyo regime to land to the landless tillers. the combined blows of the people’s destroy the revolutionary forces army, the legal mass movement and the The revolutionary movement should especially the NPA before 2010 will not broad legal opposition. study ways on how to curtail the come true. Instead, the NPA will prove It asserted that the Arroyo regime faces highly exploitative practices of the the inability of the regime to rule and a far larger and stronger NPA and a US and other foreign oil giants and has a good chance of causing its comprehensive revolutionary mass to cause the nationalization of the oil downfall. The NPA and the revolutionary movement with much richer experience industry. forces have shown this in the ouster of and sharper skills in various forms of The revolutionary movement and the the US-Marcos dictatorship in 1986 and struggle. people should push for the take over the US-Estrada regime in 2001. The same of US and other foreign-owned en- fate awaits the brutal, corrupt and Favorable conditions terprises by Filipino entrepreneurs in illegitimate Arroyo regime. in advancing the revolution The CPP also cited objective factors in IN THIS ISSUE: the Philippine and world situation which are unfavorable for the Arroyo regime LIBERATIONINTERNATIONAL and favorable for the advance of the March - April 2007 Philippine revolutionary forces. It asserted that the revolutionary forces are CPP salutes NPA for victories, advances in People’s War . 1 invincible and victorious because the semicolonial and semifeudal conditions NPA offensives destroy enemy units, net 120 firearms in the Philippines provide the fertile in four months . 1 ground for the growth in strength and International groups denounce Arroyo rights abuses . 3 advance of the people’s army and NDFP files complaint against Arroyo at UN body people’s war. on disappearances . .4 The Filipino people, it continued, need Gloria Arroyo and George Bush guilty as charged – PPT . 5 the NPA so long as the three monsters of foreign monopoly capitalism, Protests and resistance pushing US out of Iraq . 6 domestic feudalism and bureaucrat CPP salutes Indian Maoists for victorious March raid . 7 capitalism oppress and exploit them. On the basis of the objective conditions From their homes into the streets: In commemoration of that are intolerable to the people, the International Women’s Day . 8 2 LIBERATIONINTERNATIONAL HOMEFRONT ... NPA offensives, from page 1 the NPA entered the compound and emptied the armory. Two other guards in the administration building and the armory were also neutralized. The whole Red fighters of the NPA operation was over in 25 minutes.
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