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Press Statement
The People's all-out Resistance will Defeat the
All-out War of the Enemy
6 August 2002
Following the imperial visit of US state
department secretary Colin Powell, the US-directed Macapagal-Arroyo
regime has become more arrogant and more aggressive than ever
before. It has ordered the redeployment of military contingents
from the Moro areas in order to augment those previously
deployed against the revolutionary people and forces of the
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA)
and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
The regime has declared an all-out war. This
means the escalation of the campaigns of suppression that have
been going on since the Macapagal-Arroyo clique assumed power.
The revolutionary people and forces of the CPP, NPA and NDFP are
challenged to defend themselves and raise the level of their
revolutionary armed struggle. We can expect a dialectical chain
of events as follows:
- The declaration of all-out war by the regime is leading to
the termination of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. The
ruling clique believes that it can gain politically in a big
way by posing as strong and whipping up a policy of
repression. But the NDFP is not at all intimidated. It has
long been tested in revolutionary struggles, from the time
of the Marcos fascist dictatorship to the present. It
recognizes the worsening crisis engulfing the domestic
ruling system and even the US and world capitalist system.
It is eager to give full play to the advantages of the
revolutionary people and forces in pursuing the armed
revolution.
- The military, police and paramilitary forces of the
counterrevolutionary state are emboldened to commit grosser
human rights violations on a wider scale than ever before.
The escalating military campaigns of suppression increase
the budgetary deficit, grab more and more resources from
other departments of the reactionary government and worsen
the economic crisis as in the few years of the all-out war
policy of Estrada. The economic indicators that signaled the
fall of Estrada are once again at work against Macapagal-Arroyo.
- In response, the New People’s Army intensifies its
tactical offensives, using as base of operations 128
guerrilla fronts all over the country. It increases both
basic and special operations as the CPP has previously
announced. It can also go into new kinds of special
operations that involve negligible cost to itself and high
cost to its enemy. For instance, it can destroy electrical
towers and lines, like during the final years of the Marcos
years, in order to compel the enemy troops to take the
passive and futile position of guarding these installations
and deliver telling blows to the regime in terms of
calculated economic disruption and clear demonstration of
the inability of the regime to provide a profitable
environment to the imperialist corporate vultures.
- In the face of the all-out war policy of the regime, the
legal democratic movement can do its best to frustrate the
draconian scheme of the regime through resolute and militant
mass protests. At the same time, the revolutionary party of
the proletariat acts accordingly to further develop the
urban and rural underground for the purpose of facilitating
the absorption of the legal forces of the
national-democratic movement into the revolutionary
underground. Current conditions are becoming similar to
those in the years 1969-1972 when Marcos was preparing
martial law. Upon the suppression of the legal democratic
forces by the regime, armed city partisan warfare can
flourish to make the business environment far worse than now
for the big corporate masters of the regime.
- The revolutionary forces of the Bangsamoro, like the MILF
and the progressive section of the MNLF can consolidate
their armies and choose the time for launching their own
offensives, while the military, police and paramilitary
forces of the Manila government are preoccupied with their
campaigns of suppression against the revolutionary people
and forces in most parts of the archipelago. In the future
rounds of revolutionary armed struggle by the Moro people,
the reactionary armed forces will fare worse than their
continuing failure to destroy a small bandit gang called Abu
Sayyaf in the tiny island of Basilan.
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has the illusion that, by running
a "banana republic" for the US and a "strong
republic" against the Filipino people, she can ensure
her election in 2004. But her policy of repression can never
solve but can only aggravate the ever worsening
socioeconomic and political crisis and the ever rising
criminality of her own military and police officers who run
all sorts of criminal syndicates. Instead of being able to
remain president beyond 2004, she is whipping up the demand
and paving the way for a "strong man". Generals
Angelo Reyes and Panfilo Lacson are reported to be already
angling for the role.
- All types of alliances are being strengthened to isolate
and remove the Macapagal-Arroyo ruling clique from power
before 2004 or prevent it from winning the 2004 elections.
They include the basic alliance of the toiling masses
(workers and peasants), the alliance of progressive forces
(toiling masses plus urban petty bourgeoisie), the alliance
of patriotic forces (progressive forces plus middle
bourgeoisie) and the broad united front (all the foregoing
alliances plus the unstable and unreliable allies from the
anti-Macapagal sections of the reactionary classes).
The intolerable and unrelieved suffering of the
broad masses of the people under the US-directed Macapagal-Arroyo
regime is generating social discontent and the rise of the
revolutionary forces. All-out resistance of the Filipino people
will defeat the all-out war of the enemy. The revolutionary
movement will continue to gain strength by fighting the current
regime and will be ready to face the next regime and deal with
it according to circumstances. #
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