Jose Maria Sison » Why the Arroyo Regime Cannot Destroy the Revolution

By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Founding Chairman,Communist Party of the Philippines
Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) can best explain why the Arroyo regime cannot destroy but unwittingly causes the armed revolution to advance. But as the CPP founding chairman, NDFP chief political consultant and as a political scientist, I can give some explanation.

The Filipino people’s armed revolution for national liberation and democracy against imperialist and feudal domination is a just cause. It is therefore understandable why this armed revolution is indestructible and has successfully persevered against the Marcos fascist dictatorship and the subsequent pseudo-democratic regimes. There are three reasons we can define for a more ample understanding of the indestructibility and success of the armed revolution.

First, the crisis of the semifeudal and semicolonial system was grave enough to result in the 14-year long Marcos fascist dictatorship. Since then it has become further aggravated and deepened by such US-instigated policies as “neoliberal” globalization and the global war of terror that involves state terrorism, global fascism and acts of US military intervention and aggression under the pretext of combating terrorism.

As the worst representative of the ruling system today, the Arroyo ruling clique has escalated the oppression and exploitation of the Filipino people from year to year. It inflicts intolerable suffering on the broad masses of the people through its policies and acts of national betrayal, corruption, deception and brutality.

Second, the Filipino people are desirous of revolutionary change. They are driven to wage revolutionary armed struggle and other forms of struggle by the everworsening crisis of the ruling system and by the relentless oppressiveness and exploitativeness of the Arroyo regime. The Arroyo regime is thus currently the best recruiter of the armed revolution.