26 December 1996
The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), a revolutionary communist party based in North America, enthusiastically salutes the arrival of 26 December. This is the anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and, not coincidentally, is the birthday of comrade Mao Zedong as well. When the CPP was reestablished in 1968, it correctly upheld the communist legacy of comrades Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. A few months after its reestablishment, the CPP formed the New People's Army and launched the protracted people's war against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. In 1992, following a period of "left" and right deviations, the CPP launched a movement to reaffirm its basic principles, rectify its errors, and recover lost ground. Since 1992, the CPP has correctly put renewed emphasis on the decisiveness of ideological and political line generally, and on the importance of studying and applying the line of comrades Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao in particular. The rectification movement's launching in 1992 and its successes up to the present are among the most important events in the world in the last two decades.
Marx taught us to scientifically analyze the world in order to change it. Lenin taught us to organize a leading, conscious force and an armed, fighting force for the seizure of power, stage by stage. Mao taught us to mobilize the masses to struggle against the restoration of capitalism by those phony communists who wave the red flag in order to defeat the red flag. The CPP, through its scientific analysis, its leadership of the protracted people's war, and its struggle against the revisionists who sought to subvert the CPP's work from within, demonstrates the continued relevance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as a tool for liberating the oppressed. MIM wishes continued success to the CPP and the national democratic revolution it leads. MIM contributes to this success in the best way it can -- by preparing the masses of North America to make anti-imperialist revolution.
Long live the Communist Party of the Philippines!
Victory to the Filipino people's war!
Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!