Nya Folkarmén 41 år!

Igår fyllde Nya Folkarmén (NFA) 41 år. Såväl Filippinernas Kommunistiska Parti (FKP) som olika avdelningar har publicerat uttalanden med anledning av detta. Av särskilld vikt är uttalandet från FKPs Centralkommitté "Avancera från Strategisk Defensiv till Strategisk Jämvikt!" där det nuvarande läget i folkkriget analyseras och politiska riktlinjer för NFA fastställs, ni finner det viktiga dokumentet här. Här finner ni ett uttalande från Cordilleras Demokratiska Folkfront där läget på ön och NFAs aktioner där behandlas. Nedan följer ett utdrag ur ett uttalande från den Nationella Demokratiska Frontens Mindanao avdelning, ni finner texten i dess helhet här, som än en gång tillbakavisar lönghistorierna om att FKP/NPA inte skulle ha en stark närvaro på ön.

"From only 39 in the previous year, there are, at present, 40 guerilla fronts in Mindanao, operating in 19 provinces, in more than 200 municipalities, and 2,000 barangays. These are being supported by close to a hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) directly organized revolutionary masses among nearly a million mass bases, not including its influence in the cities and municipalities.

The ever widening and deepening mass base has given greater opportunity for NPA units in Mindanao to launch sustained widespread and intensified tactical offensives, inspite of the attacks made by Oplan Bantay Laya I and II. The NPA has launched over 400 tactical offensives (2009-March 2010), which confiscated no less than 200 arms from the enemy troops and captured POWs (prisoners of war).

The most recent of these tactical offensives was the successful raid by the NPA in Front 72 of the Far Southern Mindanao Region against the Army-CAFGU detachment in Luz Village, Mlang, North Cotabato last March 26, 2010, where the NPA confiscated 35 high caliber rifles. Last March 27, 2010 the NPA punished the Dole Pineapple company because it wanted, by force, to open a plantation that was destructive to the environment in San Jose, Barobo, Surigao del Sur. On March 28, 2010, the NPA disarmed members of a fanatic group in Sta. Irene, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, where 5 arms were confiscated. On the same day NPAs from guerilla front 15 attacked the operating troops of the 67th IB in Mahan-ob, Bangganga, Davao Oriental, where 1 rifle was confiscated and the enemy sustained casualties. On March 22, 2010, an NPA unit in the Western Mindanao Region confiscated 4 arms from the private army of abusive Mayor Animas in Sapang Dalaga.

NPA units in Mindanao have been the Party's leading force in advancing agrarian revolution in the countryside, the benefits of which have reached hundreds of thousands of people through the rent reduction of land and farm tools, lowering usurious interest rates, increase in the price of the peasants' farm products, establishment of genuine cooperatives, launching of campaigns to increase the level of productivity, launching campaigns for culture, health, literacy, and other means of public service."