{UAH} Program of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines

Comrade Akim Odong,

Please find herein below the 12 Point programme of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.The NDFP is an umbrella organization of all revolutionary organizations and individuals in the Philippines who have signed up to devote their entire lives to the cause of Philippines revolution.. It is  is now composed of 17 revolutionary organizations nationwide, but  foremost among these are the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army. 

Please note this is just a minimum programme that can unite diverse Filipino organisations. The Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New Peoples Army have more far reaching programmes, which I cant go into here. But the two are signed up to this minimum programme of the NDFP.

Bobby

Philippines: National Democratic Front 12-Point Program Offers Viable Alternative

Ka Oris, in the forests of Mindanao

Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos, Spokesperson, NDFP-Mindanao

Program of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines

6 May 2007/

The National Democratic Front is committed to the Filipino people's revolutionary struggle for the completion of the national democratic revolution through people's war. This national democratic revolution is of a new type because it is led by the working class and has a socialist perspective.

The NDF seeks to promote the unity, cooperation and coordination of all patriotic and progressive classes, sectors and forces in order to fight for national liberation and democracy and overthrow the oppressive and exploitative ruling system. In promoting national unity, the NDF pursues the revolutionary class line in the united front. This requires the activation and strengthening of the working class leadership, the basic worker- peasant alliance, the basic forces of the revolution which include the urban petty bourgeoisie and the positive forces of the revolution.

At the moment, the NDF is the formal united front of the organizations of the basic forces of the revolution, i.e., working class, peasantry and urban petty bourgeoisie. The allied organizations within the NDF make agreements among themselves according to the principle of consultations and consensus. They enjoy independence and initiative, with due respect to such relations as may obtain between any of them. In this regard, the New People's Army is under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

The principal way to strengthen the NDF is for all the allied organizations within the NDF fold to strengthen themselves through mass work in their respective spheres. Consequently, the consultative conferences and leading councils of the NDF can have powerful support at various levels. Further on, the leading councils can form staff committees through the executive committees in order to perform important work. The NDF is ever ready and willing to cooperate with all patriotic and progressive forces and individuals that are outside of the NDF in order to broaden and strengthen national unity and advance the national democratic revolution.

The most important responsibilities of the NDF include the promotion of national unity for the revolutionary struggle within and beyond the current composition of the NDF, representations and pronouncements on behalf of the revolutionary forces upon their authorization and paving the way for and supporting the organs of the people's democratic government at various levels.

The National Democratic Front hereby declares its 12-point Program. We offer it to the Filipino people, to be their guide and rallying point, as they fight for an independent, democratic, just, prosperous and progressive future

The NDFP's general program for national liberation and democracy seeks to provide a broad basis of unity for all social classes, sectors, groups and individual Filipinos here and abroad desirous of genuine national freedom and democracy, lasting peace and a progressive Philippines. 

1. Unite the people for the task of overthrowing the semicolonial and semifeudal system through a people's war and completing the national democratic revolution.

2. Prepare the way for the establishment of a people's democratic republic and a democratic coalition government.

3. Strengthen the people's army and a defense system.

4. Uphold and promote the people's democratic rights.

5. Terminate all unequal relations with the United States and all other imperialist powers and other foreign entities.

6. Implement a genuine agrarian reform, program, promote agricultural cooperation, develop rural production and employment through modernization of agricultural and rural industrialization, and ensure agricultural sustainability.

7. Dismantle the dominance of the US and other imperialists and the big comprador-landlords over the economy, implement a program of national industrialization, and ensure an independent and self-reliant economy.

8. Implement a comprehensive and progressive social program.

9. Promote a national and progressive people's culture.

10. Uphold the rights of the Bangsa Moro and Cordillera peoples and other indigenous peoples to self-determination and democracy.

11. Advance the revolutionary emancipation of women in all spheres.

12. Adopt an active, independent and peaceful foreign policy.

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