Official CPP New Year’s Statement: Carry The Revolution Forward And Achieve New Victories In 2025
Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer | Communist Party Of The Philippines
December 31, 2024
The Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army, together with all revolutionary forces allied with the National Democratic Front and the Filipino people, boldly and militantly usher in the new year 2025. We envision 2025 as a year of unrelenting struggle and hard-won victories. With an unshakable resolve, the Filipino people led by the Party will further heighten their resistance to the Marcos regime’s corruption and oppressive economic policies, brutal state terrorism, and outright national betrayal.
The past year saw an even sharper decline in the people’s well-being. In the coming year, the broad masses of the Filipino people must heighten their resistance to the Marcos regime’s anti-people and anti-poor economic policies. They are determined to rise in protest against skyrocketing prices, insufficient wages, job scarcity, dispossession of people’s land and livelihoods, economic dislocation and the continuing deterioration of public services.
The people seethe with outrage amid sharpening social inequality and injustice. While the majority struggled to survive in poverty as well as climate disasters in 2024, Marcos and his corrupt bureaucrats, crony capitalists and big landlord allies continued to indulge in excess and luxury. They have accumulated more wealth through corruption, exploitation of workers and peasants, and plundering the country’s natural resources.
The people are determined to shatter Marcos’ reign of terror. They have had enough of Marcos’ brutal war of suppression that continues to be carried out behind the façade of his “insurgency-free” declarations. They demand the lifting of martial law conditions in thousands of rural villages under heavy military control. They condemn the wanton surveillance, harassment’s, Red-tagging, arrests and trumped-up charges in both cities and the countryside, and demand an end to these abuses.
The significant escalation of US military intervention last year is sparking the people’s patriotic anger. They are angered over how Marcos is allowing the country to be pushed to the brink of US armed tensions with China, and how US officers command Philippine forces from their secret military bases. The Filipino people demand the removal of US military bases, an end to Marcos subservience and calls for an independent foreign policy and regional peace through dialogue.
As vanguard of the Filipino proletariat and all oppressed classes and sectors, the Party is determined to lead the Filipino people in their struggles in the coming year. Its cadres and activists are striking deeper and wider roots among the broad masses of the people to arouse, organize and mobilize them along the path of militant resistance. Its cadres are leading units of the New People’s Army as it wages guerrilla warfare to frustrate the Marcos regime’s war of suppression, further expand its mass base and launch tactical offensives against the enemy.
The Party is determined to overcome past weaknesses and raise its capability to lead the masses in their numbers. It enjoins all its cadres and the revolutionary masses to further steel their determination to expand and strengthen the Party, the NPA and revolutionary mass organizations, advance the national democratic revolution and strive to secure victories in 2025 and the coming years.
Source : https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/carry-the-revolution-forward-and-achieve-new-victories-in-2025/