RA- HP,  AML
Sept.15,1971
Dear Comrades,
Sie are sending you tfc« initial nress dispatches of the „Philippine Liberation
News (PLM). The PLN will henceforth monitor relevant news items^ and background
Materials concerning the developing Philippine revolution. More particularly,
the PLN will put out communiques, statements and articles from the Communist
Party of the Philippines (CPPJ, the Hew people's Army (NPA), its military arm,
and various related mass organizations.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is the vanguard of the present
Philippine revolution which is waging a protracted struggle for National Democracy
against IMS. imperialism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. The CPP
through its military arm, the New People's Army, has been waging intensive
guerilla struggle in Central and Northern Luzon as well as expansion work throughout the Philippine archipelago since its re-establishment in December 26,1968.
Founded in 1930. the CPP reached its high point In World War II when it successfully rallied the Filipino people behind the IIUKBALAHAP movement against Japanese
fascism. It suffered its worst defeat at the hands of the CIA backed Magsaysay
regime when the HUK movement was almost completely wiped out by ruthless military
campaigns in the 1950's. It was re-established in 1968 after two decades of
unrelenting rectification work among surviving members and net* cadres under
extremely repressive conditions. In 1957 the Party was outlawed by the Philippine
Anti-Subversion Law.
Recognizing the disastrous right opportunist and subjectivist errors of the
successive Lava leaderships which did not adequately prepare the party and the
people for a protracted struggle, the CPP has been re-established under the
guidance of lîarxism-Leninism-vIao^Tjseïung Thought. It is ardously undertaking
the tasks of rebuilding the Party, waging armed struggle in the countryside and
creating a broad united front of all patriotic classes and parties opposed to
U.S. imperialism and local tyranny.
In the light of the great upsurge of revolutionary movements all over the
world and the rapidly deteriorating position of U.S. imperialism, the PLN feels
that all comrades and friends of the Filipino people must gain access to vital
information regarding the struggle in the Philippines today. Such information,
we feel, cannot be obtained through the bourgeois media for obvious reasons.
We urge you to use these materials in your discussions and in any media
available to your organization. In this way, you can help immensely in the task
of isolating the Marcos fascist puppet regime and its U.S. imperialist masters
before the revolutionary peoples of the world, especially now that this reactionary
team has dropped its last remaining liberal democratic bluffs in the Philippines
with the imposition of ^military rule all over the country. Your solidarity
with us in this regard will be a great encouragement to the struggle of the
Filipino people for national liberation and freedom.
In subsequent installments, we shall be sending you basic documents of the
CPP, particularly those pertaining to the rectification campaign. Considering
the objective conditions under which we operate, we are presently unable to
provide you with a return address. Consequently, we will have to be the ones
to initiate all contacts. We are confident that you will understand.
Yours in revolutionary struggle,
Philippine Liberation News
P.S. Materials to sent in the future. BASIC DOCUMENTS 1)Constitution of the
re-established Communist Party of the Philippines 2)Basic Pules of the New
People's Army 3)Rectify Errors and Rebuild the Party(major rectification document).
ON REVISIONISM (Lavaism) 1)Against the Wishful Thinking of a Revisionist Puppet
of U.S. imperialism 2) On the Lavaite Misrepresentation of the Proletarian
Foreign Policy of China 3) Counter-revolutionary and Counter-guerilla views of
the Revisionist Pomeroy 4) On Lavaite Propaganda for Revisionism and Fascism
(Draft report to the Central Committee). BOOKS Sison, Jose Ma., STRUGGLE FOR
NATIONAL DEMOCRACY (2nd edition), and Guerrero, Amado, PHILIPPINE SOCIETY AND
REVOLUTION (available at jMtm Books and Periodicals, 2929 24th St., San Francisco.)