UNDERSTANDING THE NPA: A QUICK FACTS.pptx

The New People's Army (NPA) serves as the primary armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), acting as the military instrument for achieving the CPP's goal of seizing political power through national democratic revolution (NDR).

1. QUICK FACTS NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY

2. HOW DID IT START?

3. KARL MARX (1818- 1883)   1848

4. Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose except your chains! KARL MARX 1818 –1883 

5. The  hammer and sickle  has become the symbol meant to represent a union between  agricultural   (peasants or farmers) and  industrial (sickle)   workers i n Communist-led revolution.

6. REVOLUTION

7. VLADIMIR LENIN 1870 –1924  BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, RUSSIA 1917

8. primacy of the PARTY as the “revolutionary vanguard party” of the proletariat or working class .

9. “Professional revolutionaries” (cadre) should lead the proletariat class and create revolutionary situations.

10. it would take an “ organized and professional political party ” to transform a worker into a truly revolutionary state of mind.

11. It is necessary that a centralized governing party – Communist Party , to rule in behalf of the working class or “ dictatorship of the Communist Party ”

12. MAO ZEDONG 1893 –1976  CHINESE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION, 1927-1949

13. Revolutionary power lies on the peasantry and push for a “protracted peoples war”

14. to capture state power through armed insurgency , mass mobilization , strategic alliances , and e mploy propaganda and disinformation against state institutions to weaken and isolate the State.

15. Mao believes that to defeat or destroy the government or state through a revolution, there must be three (3) weapons: 1. Party , 2. People’s Army , & 3. United Front

16. “CLASS STRUGGLE”/ SOCIAL REVOLUTION   “PARTY AS THE VANGUARD OF THE PROLETARIAT” “PEOPLES ARMY”/PROTRACTED WAR

17. JOSE MARIA SISON , FOUNDER COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES 26 DECEMBER 1968

18. Sison considers the Philippines as “semi-feudal” and semi-colonial” state, outlines three (3) main problems: (1) feudalism, (2) bureaucrat capitalism, and (3) imperialism

19. NEW PEOPLES ARMY 29 MARCH 1969 BERNABE BUSCAYNO @Kumander Dante/ Sumulong

20. NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY 29 MARCH 1969 TASKS: Party Re-building 2. Carry Out Agrarian Revolution 3. Build Rural Bases 4. Advance the Armed Struggle; 5. Build the National United Front

21. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT 24 APRIL 1973 JOSE MARIA SISON (8 February 1939 –16 December 2022)

22. THE COMMUNIST TERRORIST GROUP (CTG) The CPP-NPA was declared by the ATC as a TERRORIST GROUP on January 26, 2022, while NDF on June 23, 2021 . Jose Maria Sison Founder, CPP-NPA-NDF

23. Communist Terrorist Group OBJECTIVE, STRATEGY AND TACTICS PARTY ARMY UNITED FRONT provides strategic leadership and direction of so-called “revolution” assists the Party in creating an atmosphere of instability to overthrow the government umbrella organization of aboveground and underground mass organizations acting as a shield to protect the armed campaign

24. ULTIMATE GOAL OVERTHROW / DESTROY THE GOVERNMENT SEIZURE OF POLITICAL POWER

25. STRATEGY PROTRACTED PEOPLE’S WAR NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION (NDR)

26. IDEOLOGICAL LINE MARXIST-LENINIST-MAOIST -Party (Party Building) -Army (Armed Struggle) -United Front (Alliance Building)

27. TWO FORMS OF STRUGGLE PRIMARY FORM SECONDARY FORM ARMED STRUGGLE LEGAL STRUGGLE

28. GENERAL OFFENSIVE GENERAL UPRISING 1 2 “Works hand-in hand” “Success of the Armed Struggle depends on the success of the Political struggle”

29. ENDS MEANS WAYS CPP/NPA/NDF (CTG) FRAMEWORK CPP NPA NDF (Leadership) (Army-Red) (United Front-White) NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION # TwoStruggles

30. ENDS MEANS WAYS CPP/NPA/NDF (CTG) FRAMEWORK CPP NPA NDF (Leadership) (Army-Red) (United Front-White) NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION # TwoStruggles CTG Vehicle to succeed Primary: Armed Struggle – change ruling government; first step to overthrow existing social conditions Secondary: Political Struggle – winning the people: 1) mass organization, 2) electoral struggle, 3) judicial struggle, 4) ISW (OFW*, UN, ILPS, peace talks, etc ), 5) alliance building

31. ENDS MEANS WAYS CPP/NPA/NDF (CTG) FRAMEWORK CPP NPA NDF (Leadership) (Army-Red) (United Front-White) NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION # TwoStruggles Provides Command and Control (brain) Acts as the conductor in the orchestra of the NDR or the main driver of the NDR Operates underground and hides itself in the united front and the legal institutions (both domestic and abroad)

32. ENDS MEANS WAYS CPP/NPA/NDF (CTG) FRAMEWORK CPP NPA NDF (Leadership) (Army-Red) (United Front-White) NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION # TwoStruggles Primary task is to launch armed struggle Also performs political functions Operates underground Not all members are party members Primary implementor of extortion

33. ENDS MEANS WAYS CPP/NPA/NDF (CTG) FRAMEWORK CPP NPA NDF (Leadership) (Army-Red) (United Front-White) NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION # TwoStruggles Primary task is political struggle and creating an atmosphere and condition ripe for armed struggle Shields the CPP and the NPA Operates openly in all areas (both domestic and abroad) Gathers finances from legal collections (union dues, PPAs of partners and funding institutions, hijacking of government projects, etc.)

34. THREE (3) PROCESSES Party Building Army Building United Front Building PROGRAMS Mass Organization Propaganda Machinery RBKU (Extortion) Agrarian Revolution Partylist International Solidarity Work Human Rights Peace Process Protracted Peoples War Oust Duterte Campaign ENDS NDR Weakening of the state (general uprising) Seizure of political power (general offensive) SOCIALIST REVOLUTION At the eve of success of the NDR, the socialist revolution will commence Dictatorship of the proletariat and cultural revolution ECHELON OF ALLIANCES MEANS WAYS CPP/NPA/NDF (CTG) FRAMEWORK Basic Alliance Progressive Alliance Patriotic Alliance CPP NPA NDF (Leadership) (Army-Red) (United Front-White) NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION # TwoStruggles

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