| |
Message to the Communist Party of the Philippines On the
Occasion of its 25th Anniversary From the Committee of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement
Twenty five years ago, as Mao Tsetung led millions of people in
the Cultural Revolution to blaze an uncharted path towards the new
world of communism under the watchword, "It's right to rebel against
reactionaries!", a handful of Filipino revolutionaries founded the
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to lead the people of that
country forward as part of the world proletarian revolution. This
was a joyous event, not only for the Filipino people, who had fought
the imperialists, particularly the U.S. rulers, for many long years,
but for the oppressed and exploited of all the world. Indeed, the
CPP is not only the fruit of the Filipino people's struggle, and
not only of the world revolutionary struggle in general, but it
is also an offspring of that world historic battle of the Chinese
masses against the imperialists and especially the modern Soviet
revisionists and their Chinese counterparts, which was led by the
great leader of the international proletariat, Mao Tsetung.
The comrades of the young CPP boldly took up Marxism-Leninism-Mao
Tsetung Thought, which they hailed as "the acme of Marxism-Leninism",
and brought it to the masses. They fearlessly applied Mao's pathbreaking
theory of People's War to the specific conditions of the Philippines,
and went to the countryside to mobilise the masses, particularly
the poor peasants, in people's war; they carried out agrarian revolution
and roused the masses to create new forms of red power in the rural
areas, relying on armed struggle as the principal form of struggle
and the New People's Army led by the CPP as the main form of organisation
of the masses. For many years the CPP comrades persisted in this
line and carried forward the protracted warfare that step by step
will enable the oppressed and exploited of the Philippines to surround
the cities from the countryside and carry out the New Democratic
Revolution against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism,
to establish the joint dictatorship of the revolutionary classes
led by the proletariat as the necessary prelude to the socialist
revolution.
These developments proved in practice Mao's teaching that a correct
political and ideological line is decisive, and that even when there
are no soldiers, if the line is correct, soldiers will be found.
Relying on the invincible weapon of our revolutionary science, the
CPP grew from small to big, and led the People's War to sink deep
roots in the countryside and to deal powerful blows against the
U.S. imperialists and the Filipino compradors and feudal landlords.
Today, 25 years after its founding, the CPP is engaged in the serious
task of carrying out a rectification campaign on the basis of raising
high the great red banners of Marx, Lenin and Mao. The CPP comrades
are intensively studying the works of Mao in order to uproot a series
of errors that arose in the 1980s that departed from Mao's line
and repudiated previous correct verdicts of the Party. These went
along with a tendency to confuse enemies with friends both domestically
and internationally, including concerning the social-imperialist
character of the USSR and the reactionary post-1976 Deng regime
in China. The Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement,
which since 1984 has gathered together revolutionary communist parties
from around the world on the basis of the three red banners of Marx,
Lenin and Mao, salutes the CPP on the occasion of its 25th anniversary
and welcomes this rectification initiative with all its heart. RIM
expresses the deeply felt wishes of all the comrades in the Maoist
parties and organisations united in RIM that the CPP carries this
rectification campaign through to the end, that it succeeds in revitalising
the Party and through it the New People's Army so as to carry forward
the people's war in the Philippines to victory and establish a red
Philippines as a mighty base area for the world revolution.
On the occasion of the Mao Tsetung Centenary, the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement has proclaimed that Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
is its guiding ideology. On the basis of this all-powerful ideology,
the revolutionary communists the world over will be able to advance
our unity and solidify our ranks, to beat back the reactionary anti-communist
counter-offensive launched by the imperialists and their revisionist
and reactionary lackeys, and to seize on the deepening crisis of
their system and the unprecedented storms of rebellion and resistance
this will unleash so as to lead the masses to seize power through
revolutionary violence, establish their rule and advance towards
that future when all exploitation and oppression shall be done away
with and the bright red sun of communism will shine over the whole
world.
26 December
1993
|