By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
July 10, 2015
Dear Comrades, I am deeply pleased to know from Comrade Alexandre Rosendo that the Communist Reconstruction Union is holding a meeting of young students and workers in solidarity with the Philippine revolution in Curitiba City on July 10.
The Filipino people and revolutionary forces welcome your solidarity. We are very grateful for your militant comradeship and revolutionary solidarity. Please accept my message of gratitude and of solidarity with the Brazilian revolution. I would appreciate it if you could email to me and to the Philippine Revolution Web Collective reports on your activity and photos if possible.
Comrade Alexandre and the Communist Reconstruction Union read and study revolutionary publications from the Philippines, including mine. I am sure that they can explain the semicolonial and semifeudal character of Philippine society and the corresponding national and democratic character of the Philippine revolution, that is now led by the working class and no longer by the liberal bourgeoisie.
The Communist Party of the Philippines is the advanced detachment of the proletariat. It is guided by the theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The general line of the Philippine revolution at this stage is people’s democratic revolution through protracted people’s war. This people’s war develops in stages in the countryside. The people’s army accumulates armed and political strength until it can seize the cities on a nationwide scale.
The basic alliance of the working class and the peasantry is the foundation of the national united front for the people’s democratic revolution. But it also wins over the urban petty bourgeoisie and the middle bourgeoisie. It takes advantage of the splits among reactionaries in order to isolate and destroy the power of the worst reactionary, which is the enemy.
In waging the people’s democratic revolution, the Filipino people aims to achieve full national independence, democracy, development through agrarian revolution and national industrialization, social justice, cultural progress and solidarity with all peoples against imperialism and and reaction. Upon the seizure of political power and establishment of the people’s democratic republic, it is possible to start socialist revolution and construction.
I hope that you can raise the level of your revolutionary consciousness in your solidarity meeting by trying to compare the Philippine revolution with the Brazilian revolution. It is good for you to know the similar as well as different features of the two revolutions and to become more determined to wage a united struggle for national and social liberation against the common enemy, which is US imperialism together with its cohorts and puppets.
Long live the solidarity of the Brazilian people and the Filipino people!
Victory to their revolutionary struggle for national and social liberation!
Long live proletarian internationalism and the world pŕoletarian revolution!