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Ramblings of a deluded revolutionary 08 August 2002 |
The following is a press statement released by Communist Party of the Philippines' exiled leader Joma Sison following Philippine President Gloria Arroyo's announcement of an "all-out war against Communism".
Read and decide if these read like words coming from a sane individual.
Press Statement
6 August 2002
THE PEOPLE'S ALL-OUT RESISTANCE WILL DEFEAT THE ALL-OUT WAR OF THE ENEMY
By Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
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:
 | 1. 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. |
 | 2. 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.
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 | 3. 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. But 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.
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 | 4. 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, 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.
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 | 5. 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.
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 | 6. 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.
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 | 7. 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).
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