[ndf at xs4all.nl] May 1 Message of CPP

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MAY FIRST 1997 MESSAGE
OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES


As the revolutionary party of the proletariat, the Communist Party of the
Philippines leads the Filipino working class in joining the workers of the
world in celebrating International Labor Day.

Let us celebrate the historical and current victories of the working class.
Let us commemorate the arduous struggles and sacrifices that are the price
of these victories. Let us renew and make more firm our resolve to wage
militant class struggle against the imperialists and all their lackeys.

The crisis of the world capitalist system is rapidly worsening and is
exacting a heavy toll on the broad masses of the people. The proletariat
and the people are launching general strikes and other mass protest actions
in more and more countries in order to resist the onslaughts of the
monopoly bourgeoisie.

The main aspect of monopoly capitalism, driven by high technology and
unbridled high finance, is destructive of the forces of production. In the
industrial capitalist countries, including the global centers of
capitalism, where investment flows are concentrated, profits are maximized
by the attack on the workers’ rights, wages and social benefits and by mass
unemployment. The workers and the rest of the people are launching general
strikes and mass protest actions in the industrial capitalist countries.

In the few countries, which depend on the secondary flow of direct
investments and manufacture of consumer goods for export, the trade
deficits and foreign debt burden are mounting. In countries victimized by
revisionist rulers for decades, the full restoration of capitalism is has
meant further destruction of national industries and unbridled profit
taking from big-comprador operations. The proletariat and the people have
begun to fight back. 

In the overwhelming majority of countries, dependent on raw-material
exports, the accumulated foreign debt burden is ceaselessly crushing the
people, is unleashing the worst forms of oppression and exploitation, and
is generating the most violent contradictions among the reactionary
cliques. There are some few outstanding armed revolutionary movements and
wide-scale and spontaneous resistance by the people.

The basic contradictions between the monopoly bourgeoisie and the
proletariat, among the imperialist powers and between imperialism and the
oppressed peoples and nations are sharpening. These contradictions carry
their own distinct impulses but are interconnected and generate the
conditions for the proletariat and the people to wage anti-imperialist and
class resistance.

The contradiction between imperialism and oppressed peoples and nations is
still the main contradiction and is the most conspicuous and intense at the
moment. Extreme oppression and exploitation, combining neocolonial methods
and the most backward reactionary methods, have resulted in sustained mass
movements of resistance and some armed revolutionary movements led by the
proletariat. The reactionaries are engaged in violence against the working
people and among themselves.

There is a crying need for the workers of all countries to unite. Unity can
be forged only through the building of the revolutionary parties of the
proletariat under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and through a rising
revolutionary consciousness and militancy among workers in the trade union
movement and in conjunction with other mass movements against imperialism
and all reaction.

International gatherings of the representatives of existing parties, groups
and movements on the broad political ground of anti-imperialist solidarity
and on the narrower ground of ideological unity are important. They serve
to clarify the road of revolution on a global scale and inspire the
proletariat and people to do their revolutionary homework. 

A serious revolutionary party of the proletariat strives to grasp the
revolutionary essence of Marxism-Leninism, combats revisionist and other
bourgeois influences within its ranks, does painstaking work among the
masses and leads them in concrete struggles and prepares for or undertakes
armed revolution. The historic mission of the proletariat is to overthrow
the counterrevolutionary state, build socialism and cause the global defeat
of imperialism and the ultimate victory of communism. 

In the industrial capitalist countries, the economic and technical
conditions are suitable for immediate socialist transformation of the
relations of production but the proletariat here face the strongest
counterrevolutionary resistance of the monopoly bourgeoisie. To make
revolution here is not to simply raise economic demands within the
capitalist system but to wage militant political struggles to prepare for
the overthrow of the counterrevolutionary state.

In most countries of the world, there is the need to wage a new democratic
revolution before the socialist revolution can be started. The demands that
are raised to arouse, organize and mobilize the broad masses of the people
must arise from the concrete conditions. Immediately raising demands that
gloss over these concrete conditions are detrimental to the revolutionary
movement.

High technology and finance capital concentrated and centralized in the
imperialist countries have strategic implications and consequences to the
entire world. But they do not make the problems of social and economic
backwardness disappear but aggravate and deepen them in most countries. In
the most developed capitalist countries, the monopoly bourgeoisie uses the
high-tech means of production to cause mass unemployment. But in the
countries which are not yet industrialized, the mass unemployment is
generated both by the backward local conditions and by the impact of
imperialism.

The Communist Party of the Philippines requires its cadres and members to
follow the ideological line of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. In the distinct
sphere of political struggle, it pursues the general line of new democratic
revolution in order to lead the broad masses of the people and employ
effectively both the armed struggle and the united front to overthrow the
enemy.

The ruling system can be overthrown only as the Party and New People’s Army
gain the active participation and support of the broad masses of the people
in fighting the imperialists and the local exploiting classes and defeating
the reactionary armed forces. The united front is an instrument for ranging
the broadest array of forces and the people in their millions against the
enemy. It involves a structure of alliances against foreign monopoly
capitalism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.

Under the leadership of the proletariat through the CPP, there are the
basic alliance of the proletariat and the peasantry; the alliance of the
basic revolutionary forces, including the urban petty bourgeoisie; the
alliance of positive forces, including the middle bourgeoisie; and the
temporary and unstable alliance with certain reactionaries at various
levels in order to isolate and destroy the power of the worst reactionaries
or the enemy at every given time.

It is the proletarian internationalist duty of the CPP to strengthen itself
in an all-round way and to persevere in the protracted people’s war and
continue to win victories on the road of armed revolution. The performance
of such duty is of great importance in view of the temporary defeat of the
socialist cause, as a result of imperialist onslaughts, revisionist
betrayal and neocolonialism.

An outstanding achievement of the Communist Party of the Philippines is
that it has been able to wage armed revolution since 1969 and establish Red
political power in many parts of a country under US imperialist dominance.
It helps to raise the hope of mankind that the anti-imperialist and
socialist movement is bound to resurge amidst the new world disorder
wrought by capitalism.

Under the banner of proletarian internationalism, we must fight in common
against the imperialists and reactionaries in order to fulfill the
proletariat’s historic mission of building socialism until communism
becomes possible upon the defeat of imperialism and all reaction on a
global scale.

We urge the workers of the world, the trade unions and all parties of the
proletariat to bring about, together with the rest of the people, the
resurgence of the anti-imperialist and socialist movement and march forward
from victory to victory.

CENTRAL COMMITTEE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES


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