An Open Mind for a New Army
By: Adrian D. Rodriguez

The Philippines is a poor, semi feudal and semi colonial country, with a population of 70 million. Imperialism has dominated and twisted the country's development. The Filipino people have suffered greatly. But the Filipino people also have a proud and blood-stained history of resistance and revolution.

The New People's Army, or the NPA, as it is popularly known, is the fighting force of the Philippine revolution. The heart of the struggle is the armed agrarian revolution against the rule of the big landlord and imperialist-backed comprador-capitalist classes.

Despite savage onslaughts from the ruling class, and through many twists and turns, the Philippine revolution has continued to develop. The CPP, which is not part of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, launched a rectification campaign to reaffirm its revolutionary line and strategy, to strengthen the NPA's ties with the masses, and to raise ideological awareness.

The chairman of the CPP's Central Committee and the NPA's founder, Jose Maria Sison, directs all CPP and NPA activity from the Netherlands, where he lives in self-imposed exile.
The struggle in the Philippines is a very important struggle against imperialism. It deserves the support of all progressive and revolutionary-minded people.

I have image about the new people’s army burned in my mind. The armed services are among the few institutions in this country that focus relentlessly on developing leaders and improving leadership. The military's fiercely hierarchical structure is designed to identify the best leaders at each level and push them upward. Officers are expected to mentor those below them, and soldiers must periodically return to school to study how to better lead. Indeed, there are few more flexible leaders in the military today. Just like the NPA they are a paramilitary group fighting for communist revolution in the Philippines.

The NPA reasons that these assassinations will eventually lead to a massive government repression of the NPA and all societal sectors. Incited by this theoretical government repression, the general Filipino populace will then reject the acting government. More than three decades after its formation, the New People's Army has not as yet created a communist state in the Philippines.

The NPA tactics of fighting are based on maoist theories of guerilla warfare, they target are  part of the Government Official and members of Security services as well as US military personnel and asset. The NPA has stood as the largest and strongest army of the Filipino people in their entire history. It has surpassed the level of strength of the Philippine revolutionary army in the old democratic revolution against Spanish colonialism and then in the war of resistance against US imperialism at the start of the 20th century.

The NPA has also surpassed by far the scope and level of strength attained by the People's Army against Japan (Hukbalahap) during World War II and the subsequent People's Liberation Army, whose backbone was broken by the enemy in the early 1950s.

In 2005, the NPA diversified its tactics, conducting continuous low level attacks, including ambushes and raids, against the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Luzon and the Visayas. The timing of these attacks was co-ordinate to take place as the government launched offensives in Mindanao against Islamist separatists. The AFP is extremely overstretched at these times and is unable to retaliate simultaneously to NPA attacks while conducting large-scale operations in Mindanao.

The Arroyo regime is now faced with a far larger and stronger NPA and a comprehensive revolutionary mass movement with much richer experience and sharper skills in various forms of struggle. The military and police forces of the regime are stagnant and deteriorating in terms of the number and capacity of personnel, training and equipment, despite the hype about increased military assistance and training from US military forces.

The objective conditions in the world are not favorable to the Arroyo regime. But they are favorable to the revolutionary movement. The crisis of the world capitalist system has been deepened and aggravated rapidly by the so-called free market policy of "neoliberal globalization." This has been wrongly supposed by the US and other policymakers as the cure to the problem of stagflation blamed on state interventions under the Keynesian economic policy. The concentration and centralization of capital in the US and a few other countries have accelerated and have resulted in a global depression, afflicting mainly the underdeveloped countries.

The Filipino people, especially the workers and peasants, need the NPA so long as the three monsters, foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism oppress and exploit them. Without the NPA, they have nothing with which to fight the enemy. They do not even have hope of liberation, unless they have the NPA. On the basis of the objective conditions that are intolerable to the people, the subjective forces or organized forces of the revolution thrive and march forward.

In the course of people's war, the NPA is the main instrument for arousing, organizing and mobilizing the masses in the rural areas. It carries out land reform in order to let the peasant masses achieve economic, social and political revolution and realize the main content of the democratic revolution. It wages the revolutionary armed struggle in order to seize weapons and other resources from the enemy and thereby expand and further strengthen itself in order to defeat the enemy.

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