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CPP FOUNDING CHAIRMAN SAYS: ‘Exploit crisis to incite revolution’
December 27, 2008MANILA, Philippines — On the 40th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines, founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison is urging all revolutionary forces in the Philippines to take advantage of the global financial crisis and agitate the people against the government that is being supported by the United States.
“The bankruptcy of the US-instigated policies of neo-liberal
globalization and war on terror has resulted in an unprecedented rapid worsening of the crisis of the world capitalist system and the Philippine ruling system. The crisis conditions inflict terrible suffering on the people but also incite them to wage revolutionary struggle,” he said in an e-mail to media from his chosen home of exile in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
“They are therefore favorable for the rapid growth and advance of the Communist Party of the Philippines and other organized revolutionary forces of the Filipino people,” he added.
Sison, who has been in exile for more than 20 years since his release from imprisonment after the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, said the CPP could maximize its growth during this time of crisis.
“The CPP has a sound organization of cadres and members. This can be the basis for a well-planned accelerated growth of the CPP organization. Tens of thousands of cadres and hundreds of thousands of members are needed for a new great leap in the advance of the Philippine revolution. There are gigantic tasks ahead for the CPP,” he said.
At the same time, Sison admitted the party’s “unstable and temporary alliance with certain reactionaries against the worst of the reactionaries who are narrowed down as the enemy.”
Calling the NPA “the largest revolutionary army since the Philippine revolution of 1896,” Sison said its “thousands of battle-tested Red fighters with political-military education and training” might be used for this expansion.
He said the CPP-led forces of the New People’s Army “move freely in at least 80 percent of Philippine territory” and has “more than a hundred guerrilla fronts covering large portions of 70 provinces and 800 municipalities.”
The CPP was founded in 1969, and has built and led the NPA. The number of armed communist rebels peaked during the regime of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, and has been going down since, suffering severe losses after an ideological and political split within the party.
Sison, who is facing charges before Dutch courts for conspiring to assassinate his former comrades — Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara — from his home in The Netherlands, has said that he has not had operational control of the CPP-NPA for a long time.
In peace talks with the government, his official title is consultant to the panel of the National Democratic Front.
The government and CPP have separately called for a ceasefire during the holidays; it has not been breached so far.
The 40th anniversary of the CPP marks the 40 years of insurgency being waged by one of the few remaining communist movements in the world.
By Veronica Uy INQUIRER.net
