Reds Told to Expand, Launch More Attacks

All basic factors for building relatively stable base areas are present. These can grow from the existing guerrilla fronts which cover 9,000 barangays in 70 provinces and 800 municipalities. The most advanced guerrilla fronts can merge to form the relatively stable base areas. At the same time, efforts are being exerted to increase the number of guerrilla fronts in each one of the 173 congressional districts in the provinces .The NPA plays a decisive role in building the guerrilla fronts as well as developing them to become stable base areas at the provincial level. These serve as stronger political, military, economic and cultural bastions of the revolution.

As political bastions, guerrilla fronts have the organs of political power at the barrio, municipal and district levels, which are supported by the mass organizations and the working committees assisting the organs of political power in matters of mass organization, mass education, economy, finance, health, defense, arbitration and cultural activities. As military bastions, they have the NPA as well as the militia units and the self-defense units. As economic bastions, they implement the land reform program and raise production in agriculture and sideline occupations. As cultural bastions, they promote the activities of the cultural troupes of the NPA and those of the various mass organizations.

IV. The Fighting Tasks of the NPA

The NPA must take full advantage of the rapid worsening of the crisis of the world capitalist system and the domestic ruling system. As the broad legal united front exerting all efforts to oust the Arroyo regime from power, the NPA must intensify its tactical offensives and carry out vigorously related revolutionary activities with the active participation and support of the masses.

The Arroyo regime is now so afraid of the people that it is increasing the number of military troops in urban areas to guard the high bureaucrats and their big private collaborators and intimidate the broad masses of the people. It is also deploying more troops to guard mines, plantations, logging areas and installations like fuel depots, power lines and towers, communication towers and others. There is therefore a decreasing number of troops for direct offensive actions against the NPA. With the enemy forces being compelled to take guard duties, they become more dispersed and are more vulnerable to tactical offensives by the NPA.

The NPA must harvest greater victories in the current year to celebrate its forthcoming 40th anniversary and to avail of the opportunities for launching offensives as a result of the worsening crisis of the ruling system, the people’s outrage over the puppetry, corruption and brutality of the Arroyo regime and the growing mistakes and weaknesses of the enemy. Greater victories must also be achieved in developing the united front for armed struggle as well as for legal struggle.

The guerrilla fronts must increase in number from the current level of 120-130 to 173 in order to cover all congressional districts in the provinces. These must be seed units for building new guerrilla fronts. The seed units could be at least two squads or platoons divisible into armed propaganda teams. In building relatively stable base areas, it is a matter of administrative political cohesion at first and all-round development of a number of guerrilla fronts.

The regional Party committee and the regional operational command must see to it that Party committees and operational commands at the provincial and congressional or guerrilla front level are working effectively and developing further. The assignment of Party cadres especially from the ranks of workers and educated youth to the NPA must be accelerated. The recruitment of Red fighters must be heightened. They must come from the ranks of mass activists, the militia and self-defense units. They must be provided with politico-military training and assigned to offensive actions to gain experience as soon as possible.

The main purpose of intensifying the tactical offensives is to seize weapons and increase the number of Red fighters and fighting units of the NPA. Certain enterprises (mines, plantations, logging, etc.) and certain installations are targeted by the NPA because these are detrimental to the interest of the people. By attacking these, the NPA compels the enemy to deploy guard units at separate places, each one of which or whose line of supply is vulnerable to further offensive actions by the NPA. It is of strategic importance to disseminate mining, plantation, logging and other operations of foreign and big comprador firms because the people do not want to be robbed of their natural resources and because they wish to use these in the future for the development of their own country. The Arroyo regime has wantonly opened the natural resources to answer for the foreign debts.