pc 4 gennaio - Celebrati i 57 anni di guida della rivoluzione democratica nazionale in Filippine - dal Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP),

Published: 02 January 2026

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Vol. VII, No. 24 - December 31, 2025

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), in commemorating its 57th anniversary on December 26, 2025, stated that the rapid acceleration of the crisis of the semicolonial and semifeudal system in the Philippines in 2025 and the prolonged stagnation of the global capitalist system open up many great opportunities for advancing the cause of the working class and all oppressed classes for liberation. The Central Committee of the CPP also reported that the rectification movement, as it enters its third year, has achieved meaningful advances in the ideological, political and organizational fields. These make the conditions excellent for the party to further advance the people’s democratic revolution through protracted people’s war.

Since the middle of the year, the crisis of the ruling system under the US-Marcos regime rapidly matured and exploded. This exposed the depth of the economic and social crisis and more so the overflowing anger of the Filipino people against the oppression and suffering inflicted on them by the exploiting and plundering ruling classes.

In the coming year, the crisis will continue in the face of the Marcos regime’s immense corruption,

unleashing of fascist terrorism and utter foreign subservience. The protest movement that has surged in recent months will grow to hold accountable the ouster and force the ouster of Marcos and Duterte, who both represent the most reactionary factions of the ruling classes. In the countryside, widespread struggles will erupt in the face of unbridled land grabbing and plunder of the country’s resources.

The New People’s Army (NPA) continues to defeat the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) “focused military operations” by denying them a focus or target. Some units have suffered losses, often due to internal weaknesses, but the NPA’s continued efforts in various regions are a slap on the face of Marcos, who in July bragged that “there are no more guerrilla groups” in the country.

The CPP narrates, “With the lessons of the rectification movement, the NPA has reorganized and redeployed to cover and mobilize a wider area, and to maneuver more quickly and silently...  It has regained or re-established its previous bases, while expanding into new areas. With determination to fight and wage active defense, the NPA resists and defeats enemy attacks.” The NPA and revolutionary forces also continue to resist the enemy’s relentless intelligence operations, psychological warfare, and surrender campaigns under the guise of “localized peace talks.”

The key to all this is the close relationship and deep roots of the NPA among the masses, and the adaption of the organization’s and guerrilla tactics of the army. To achieve this, Red fighters strengthen their assistance to the masses in production, provision of health and education services, and cultural work.

In the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), the revolutionary mass organizations of workers, peasants, youth, women, teachers, artists, health workers, church people, scientists, lawyers, indigenous peoples, overseas migrants, and others are continuously being expanded and invigorated. They bring together and consolidate the advanced sections of the masses taking part in mass struggles. They serve as the underground backbone of the broad, open mass movement, guiding the masses to avoid reformism in waging their struggles.

In the peace negotiations, the NDFP, by standing for a just and lasting peace, thwarted the US-Marcos regime’s attempts to force the NDFP into a trap of surrendering the armed revolution. Over the past two years, there has been no significant progress in the talks between the NDFP and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) to revive formal peace talks. The main reason for the impasse in the peace talks is Marcos” insistence on scrapping all agreements made over the past 30 years of NDFP-GRP negotiations.

Marcos insists on a “restart” of talks within the framework of “demobilization and disarmament” of the NPA, without first resolving the basic problems of the people, which are the root of the civil war in the country. The NDFP delegation has taken a firm stance against this proposal. If the Marcos regime does not change its militarist stance in the talks, revolutionary forces are prepared to suspend talks with the GRP until Marcos is replaced by someone more open to resolving the basic problems of land and injustice. With or without peace talks with the GRP, the Party is determined to wage revolutionary struggles to fight for the national and democratic aspirations of the people.

Finally, we pay tribute to the memory of Comrade Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Central Committee, who served as guide and beacon of the Party and several generations of communist and revolutionary activists,  Comrade Luis Jalandoni, former international representative of the NDFP and chief of the NDFP panel in peace talks, Comrade Maria Malaya (Myrna Sularte), who was killed by the enemy in a battle in the mountains of Butuan City in February, and all the cadres and members who wholeheartedly dedicated their lives to the cause of liberation for all oppressed.

Let us also extend our salutations to Comrade Basavaraju, former general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), and Comrade Madvi Hidma, commander of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army in India, and to all other revolutionaries around the world who gave their lives for the international proletariat. Let us draw inspiration from their glorious lives.