NDF Twelve-Point Program


Approved during the NDF First National Conference of July 1994.

  1. Unite the people for the overthrow of the semicolonial and semifeudal system through a people's war and for the completion of the national democratic revolution.

  2. Establish a people's democratic republic and a democratic coalition government.

  3. Build the people's revolutionary army and the people's defense system.

  4. Uphold and promote the people's democratic rights.

  5. Terminate all unequal relations with the United States and other foreign entities.

  6. Implement genuine agrarian reform, promote agricultural cooperation, raise rural production and employment through the modernization of agriculture and rural industrialization and ensure agricultural sustainability.

  7. Break the combined dominance of the U.S. and other imperialists, big compradors and landlords over the economy. Carry out national industrialization and build an independent and self-reliant economy.

  8. Adopt a comprehensive and progressive social policy.

  9. Promote a national, scientific and pro-people culture.

  10. Uphold the rights to self-determination and democracy of the Moro people, Cordillera peoples and other national minorities or indigenous peoples.

  11. Advance the revolutionary emancipation of women in all spheres.

  12. Adopt an active, independent and peaceful foreign policy.