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US Puppet and Warmonger Marcos Jr Has No Place in the UN
Marcos Jr.’s campaign for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council is a profound insult to the thousands of victims of state violence, killings, and aerial bombings in the Philippines.
While Marcos Jr. seeks a position in the world’s highest intergovernmental body tasked with maintaining international peace and security, entire communities across the Philippine countryside continue to endure the consequences of his counterrevolutionary war marked by militarization, forced displacement, political persecution, and persistent violations of international humanitarian law.
Since assuming office in 2022, there have been at least 135 cases of extrajudicial killings and 48,247 documented victims of forced evacuations under the Marcos Jr. regime. At least 57,156 victims of relentless aerial bombing campaigns and 70,028 victims of indiscriminate firing have been documented.
Marcos Jr. also cannot credibly present itself as a government advancing peace. Under its leadership, the already fragile peace process between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines has reached a continuing impasse, marked by Marcos Jr.’s refusal to meaningfully re-engage with substantive negotiations on agrarian reform and national industrialization. Instead of advancing structural solutions to longstanding social, economic, and political grievances, the Marcos Jr. administration has continued to insist on a military-centered approach, persistently disregarding the need to address the root causes of the armed conflict.
His bid for a seat at the UN Security Council is made even more objectionable by his regime’s wholesale surrender of Philippine sovereignty. True to his puppet character, Marcos Jr has consistently aligned himself with US warmongering interests in the region by expanding EDCA (Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement) sites, allowing four new locations in Cagayan, Isabela and Palawan, bringing the total to nine. His willing participation in the US-led Pax Silica initiative will also surrender a massive 4,000-acre land in Central Luzon for the US to use as a critical minerals and tech manufacturing hub in support of Washington’s growing weapons supply chain.
Far from what he projects as an “independent administration,” his regime has allowed the unfettered encroachment of US military troops into Philippine soil through the largest-ever Balikatan exercises last April with at least 17,000 troops participating from the US, Australia, Japan, Canada, France and New Zealand. He recklessly risked the Filipino masses’ lives by firing a Tomahawk missile that passed through civilian areas from Tacloban, Leyte to Laur, Nueva Ecija last May 5.
The UN Security Council is widely recognized as a compromised body, where the veto power of a handful of imperialist states routinely paralyzes any form of meaningful action to protect peace. However, even within this deeply discredited framework, Marcos Jr.’s bid for a non-permanent seat sends a profoundly wrong signal. It suggests that regimes actively complicit in militarization of communities and repression can be elevated as “credible” arbiters of international peace and security.
A government that has failed to deliver justice and peace at home cannot credibly claim the mantle of peace abroad. A government associated with widespread bloodshed, repression, and impunity has no moral authority to help shape decisions affecting international peace and security matters.
It is only upon the victory of the national democratic revolution and the establishment of the People’s Democratic Government shall the Filipino people assume its rightful place and representation in the United Nations and the international community.
source: NDFP International Office
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=33439 #asia #guerrilla #ndfp #npa #philippinesPhilippines: Why The NPA In Negros Island Will Never Be Defeated
Once again, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has dusted off its worn-out script, loudly proclaiming to the public that the New People’s Army (NPA) in Negros has suffered an “irreversible collapse” and is “totally defeated.” Following the encounters in Toboso and Cauayan, the reactionary state is desperately trying to convince the public, and perhaps themselves, that the flame of the People’s War on the island has been extinguished, to appease their imperialist masters and its local toadies.
However, these premature victory celebrations are nothing new. As Comrade Jose Maria Sison said, the reactionary state suffers from a chronic, incurable blindness: it mistakes a temporary twist in the road for the end of the journey. For over fifty years, the ruling class has repeatedly declared the revolution dead, only to find themselves continuously haunted by its presence. Their declarations of “victory” are mere illusions, completely contradicted by the material conditions in Negros.
The fundamental error of the NTF-ELCAC’ analysis lies in their mechanical and bourgeois worldview. They foolishly believe that a revolutionary movement can be eradicated by targeting individual cadres or liquidating specific command structures.
The lifeblood of the revolutionary movement is drawn from the very social conditions of the island. So long as the farmers do not have land to till, workers suffer in poor working conditions, youth are denied of their right to education, and the national bourgeoisie are crushed by foreign corporations, a revolutionary will emerge in every corner of the society, especially in Negros which remains a classic picture of this exploitation. Negros is a social volcano and its crusts are cracking under the weight of severe class contradictions.
Moreover, if the armed movement on the island were truly a spent force, it would be impossible to sustain political and military operations. Yet, under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the NPA in Negros continues to carry out its three integral tasks: mass base building, agrarian revolution, and armed struggle.
Execution of these tasks requires deep integration with the masses. An organization that is “totally defeated” cannot maintain the logistical, political, and social fabric required to sustain guerrilla operations. The continuous activity of the NPA proves that its roots among the Negrosanon remain deep and unbreakable.
The reactionary state’s words and actions are in total contradiction. If the NPA in Negros is truly a phantom of the past, a simple mathematical question arises: Why does the island remain a top priority for the state’s counter-insurgency operations, requiring the permanent deployment of over seven military battalions?
This heavy concentration of state forces is an admission of fear and panic. The reactionary state knows that the social volcano of Negros is always on the verge of erupting. They deploy thousands of troops not because they are winning, but because they are terrified of the deep-seated anger of the masses. By pouring an overwhelming number of battalions into the island, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) inadvertently reveals the high regard it actually holds for the revolutionary strength of the Negrosanon people.
By relying on state terror, particularly on militarization of communities, the state only deepens the very grievances that drive the masses into the ranks of red fighters. The New People’s Army in Negros will continue to persist and advance because it is an army of the exploited, fighting for National Democratic Revolution with a Socialist Perspective.
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