On this day in 1968, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, was founded. The CPP-NPA waged one of the longest communist insurgencies in the world and is deemed a terrorist org by the US and EU.
In December 1968, Filipino revolutionary Jose Maria Sison met Bernabé Buscayno, who had commanded an armed group during a communist-led uprising in the 1950s known as the Huk Rebellion. Together with Buscayno, who still commanded his armed group, Sison set up the NPA on March 29th, 1969, a few months after establishing the CPP.
Buscayno became the NPA’s first commander, bringing his fighters into the newly established militant wing. The NPA adopted the Maoist strategy of the protracted people’s war, and, according to liberal journalist Seth Mydans, has waged the “world’s longest-running communist insurgency”.
In 2017, the Office of the President of the Philippines designated both the NPA and the CPP as terrorist groups. The United States and the European Union have designated the CPP-NPA as “foreign terrorist organizations” in 2002 and 2005, respectively.
Jose Maria Sison wrote extensively about his experiences with revolutionary struggle, authoring texts such as “Foundation for Resuming the Philippine Revolution” (1968 - 1972) and “Continuing the Struggle for National & Social Liberation” (1986 - 1991).
“Party members were encouraged to adhere to the mass line and do painstaking mass work. With the Party core, mass organizations were expanded and consolidated. The NPA was reoriented, reorganized and redeployed for mass work and for extensive and intensive guerrilla warfare on the basis of an ever widening and deepening mass base.”
- Jose Maria Sison
Foundation for Resuming the Philippine Revolution :stalin-garrison:
The Red Battalion: Embedded with the New People’s Army :programming-communism:
Revolution Today: The Philippines | National Democratic Revolution
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find a really good looking piece of kit in a photograph
it has a fucking label on it
its covered by a fucking Getty Images watermark
these fucking people weren’t born in 1950whatever when they took this photo. why the fuck do they get to put fucking shit on top of by-rights it should be public domain
The NPA also facilitated the first gay marriage in the Phillipines while fighting off the US and PRC backed Regime. Truly an inspirational organization
