Reds Told to Expand, Launch More Attacks

The CPP, NPA and NDFP are prepared to resume formal talks in the GRP-NDFP negotiations after the downfall of the Arroyo regime or to end the peace negotiations if the next reactionary regime continues the policy of the Arroyo regime on the question of peace negotiations. They must intensify the people’s war and take advantage of the people’s outrage over the crimes of the Arroyo regime in order to isolate and weaken and eventually overthrow the ruling system of the big compradors and landlords.

III. The Invincibility and Advances of the New People’s Army

The New People’s Army is invincible and continues to score revolutionary victories because it is led by the Communist Party of the Philippines along the line of new democratic revolution through people’s war. It serves the national and democratic rights and interests of the people and it therefore enjoys the active participation and support of the people in the revolutionary movement against the extremely oppressive and exploitative system of the comprador big bourgeoisie and the landlord class.

The US-directed Arroyo regime are engaged in wishful thinking by repeatedly announcing their intention to destroy or “reduce to inconsequentiability” the people’s armed revolution before 2010. History has shown that the Marcos regime failed to destroy the newly resurgent revolutionary movement from 1969 to 1986, including 14 years of fascist dictatorship from 1972 onwards. It merely succeeded in generating conditions for the growth in strength and advance of the NPA and all other revolutionary forces. Despite bourgeois democratic pretenses to sugarcoat the armed counter-revolution, the post-Marcos regimes, from Aquino to the Arroyo regime, have likewise failed to destroy the NPA and the entire revolutionary movement.

The NPA is battle-tested and tempered like steel in the crucible of revolutionary armed struggle for nearly forty years. It has an inexhaustible source of strength in the broad masses of the people. It has accumulated rich experience in persevering and further strengthening itself, fighting the enemy and winning victories in the political, military, economic and cultural fields. The rank and file of the CPP and NPA have remained steadfast in upholding their revolutionary cause. The incorrigible subjectivists and Right and Left opportunists have served only to push the proletarian revolutionaries in the CPP and the revolutionary movement to undertake the Second Great Rectification Movement and to win resounding victories in educating the revolutionary rank and file on the basic principles, rectifying errors and shortcomings, developing all-round strength and defining the revolutionary tasks in the clearest of terms.

Together with the CPP and NDFP, the NPA has become stronger precisely at the time that the Arroyo regime is thoroughly discredited and isolated and that the entire ruling system has become more rotten and weaker than ever before. The crisis of the world capitalist system and that of the domestic ruling system have become far worse than ever before. The conditions are exceedingly favorable for the NPA and the entire revolutionary movement to grow in strength as a fighting, propaganda, productive and cultural force, to seize initiative and intensify the armed struggle and gather the widest possible popular support through the united front policy and tactics.

Oplan Bantay Laya 2 failed miserably in its objective in 2007, as OBL 1 has failed in 2001-2006, to concentrate the reactionary armed forces and regional mobile police units in 600 barangays in some 10 to 12 guerrilla fronts in six regions all at the same time in order to clear barangays of the NPA, hold them for an extended period and develop them against the people’s army. The military and police forces could hardly occupy 300 barangays at every given time and have failed to destroy a single guerrilla front of the NPA. The enemy simply does not have enough troops and resources to cover extensive areas of the country. The NPA can freely move in at least 80% of Philippine territory.

The NPA has easily moved in the wide gaps in the deployment of enemy brigades between enemy battalions, between companies and between platoon-size special operation teams. The NPA has been able to maneuver in order to be on the exterior line in concentrating the Red fighters for tactical offensives to wipe out enemy units. It has been able to disperse and shift position in order to evade the enemy with superior strength and at the same time secure a position for launching offensives against the enemy. Enemy units are withdrawn from a guerrilla front either because of the need to be deployed in other guerrilla fronts where the NPA is launching more frequent tactical offensives or in Moro areas whenever the level of armed conflict rises there. Whenever enemy forces vacate an area, the NPA disperses its units in order to do mass work and further develop the mass base and mass support.