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Año’s Recycled Lies Meant to Obscure Real Roots of Armed Conflict
Kabataang Makabayan (KM) strongly condemns the recent statements made by National Security Adviser Eduardo Año and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), which once again weaponize so-called “former rebels” to prop up the discredited narrative of a so-called “spent revolutionary force.” What Año parades as “raw, unfiltered testimonies” are, in truth, manufactured scripts extracted through coercion, bribery, and threats, designed to mislead the public and justify the militarist crackdown on democratic dissent in the Philippines.
The formation of organizations composed of alleged “former rebels,” organized under the close direction of the military and intelligence agencies, is a state-sponsored ploy aimed at legitimizing repressive policies, red-tagging, and the silencing of legitimate criticism against the Marcos Jr. regime’s corruption, foreign subservience, and anti-people programs.
Año’s recycled lies and fear-mongering narratives do more than insult the intelligence of the Filipino people—they actively obscure the real, deeply rooted causes of the armed conflict in the Philippines. Landlessness, joblessness, widespread poverty, fascist state violence, and a foreign-dominated economic system that denies the Filipino people sovereignty and justice are still the norm today.
Año’s attempt to weaponize “former rebels” in the information war is a desperate move in the face of growing international exposure and condemnation of human rights violations under their “counterinsurgency” programs as well as the mounting call to abolish the NTF-Elcac. It also exposes the regime’s failure to crush the revolutionary movement, which continues to persevere and grow.
It is not the revolutionary movement but the ruling classes and their security apparatuses who exploit the urban poor, workers, farmers, and indigenous peoples—through demolition, union-busting, land grabbing, environmental plunder, and killings of rights defenders. Far from being deceived, the Filipino masses experience firsthand the crushing poverty, joblessness and lack of access to basic services that further foment their resolve to join the armed struggle in the countryside. The people’s democratic revolution is a rational, collective response to a system that offers no meaningful future to the youth, urban poor, workers, and peasants.
Kabataang Makabayan reiterates its commitment to a just and lasting peace—one that addresses the fundamental issues of land reform, national industrialization, and democratic rights. We call on all Filipino youth, students, migrants, and professionals, to reject the fascist propaganda of the AFP and NTF-Elcac, and instead join the struggle for genuine change and national and social liberation.
Source: https://ndfp.info/anos-recycled-lies-meant-to-obscure-real-roots-of-armed-conflict/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18965
#armedStruggle #asia #communist #KabataangMakabayan #philippines
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KM On The NTF-ELCAC Threats Against Underground Organizations’ Protests: Philippines
Yesterday, the NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) chided the revolutionary organizations for holding mobilizations for the occasion of the New People’s Army’s 56th anniversary. The fascist, anti-people, and faux-patriotic Task Force impotently wails at the actions held in UP and PUP on March 29. Not surprisingly, the NTF-ELCAC claimed as a sign of weakness the fact that the protests were held in-campus instead of more public venues. The NTF further states that they will elicit the support of the PNP in investigating the mobilizations. In doing so, they assert that they will root out “recruitment” and “radicalization” while respecting academic freedom.
The NTF pretends to care about academic freedom out of fear of incurring further political setbacks. But it must be clear that academic freedom is fundamental, it cannot have half-stops especially so in the name of the preservation of a corrupt social order and state. Academic freedom cannot exist where educations and discussions are curtailed out of fear of “recruitment” and “radicalization”. The struggle for national democracy entails and realizes in full the people’s rights such as that of the freedom for assembly and academic freedom, especially inside universities.
As a revolutionary organization of the Filipino youth, KM (Kabataang Makabayan) struggles for true national freedom and democracy. We have a duty to proclaim the need for revolution under a puppet, exploitative, and fascist regime such as the present US-Marcos II regime. Through struggle, we assert that the people have a right to take arms against tyranny and the semi-colonial rule of the USA. As the people’s army, the NPA is a revolutionary force that assembles and arms the exploited and oppressed. It is our right and duty to proclaim the NPA as it truly is: as instruments for liberation of the Filipino peoples.
The investigation promised by the NTF is repression against students, organizations, and the academic administrators. The fascist NTF has time and again enacted reprisals against legal mass organizations and institutions when it fails to seek out the revolutionary underground. The NTF has sworn itself since inception as an enemy of the people an anathema to democracy and social progress.
Therefore, KM also calls for the abolition of the NTF-ELCAC as the representative of the most ideologically and politically fascist state institution. Unceasingly, KM calls for the mobilization of the Filipino and youth to rise up against the rotten semi-colonial and semi-feudal order.
To rebel is justified!
Advance the national democratic revolution!
Advance the people’s war!
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#JomaSison used to recommend the youth to join the #ROTC when he was leading the #KabataangMakabayan under the old Communist Party IIRC. :sagume_think:
Now the #NationalDemocratic movement he founded is one of ROTC's most ardent opponents, especially when it comes to being returned back to being a mandatory course for college.
The #ArmedForces of the Philippines, or rather the perception of it by the Left, has really changed drastically after the imposition of #Marcos' brutal #martiallaw in the 70s.
#Philippines #PHhistory
RE: https://kolektiva.social/users/BigTittyBimbo/statuses/112019569374234772 -
#JomaSison used to recommend the youth to join the #ROTC when he was leading the #KabataangMakabayan under the old Communist Party IIRC. :sagume_think:
Now the #NationalDemocratic movement he founded is one of ROTC's most ardent opponents, especially when it comes to being returned back to being a mandatory course for college.
The #ArmedForces of the Philippines, or rather the perception of it by the Left, has really changed drastically after the imposition of #Marcos' brutal #martiallaw in the 70s.
#Philippines #PHhistory
RE: https://kolektiva.social/users/BigTittyBimbo/statuses/112019569374234772