Secretary-General, National Democratic Front
The state of the Filipino nation is that of a growing people’s resistance against intensified fascist repression and plunder by the US-Marcos regime.
The US-Marcos regime continues to ignore economic development through national industrialization while it lays open the whole country to foreign plunder, plunging the biggest majority of the population to extreme poverty and suffering. Prices soar and worker’s wages remain low. Peasants and indigenous people lose their lands to mining companies or real estate billionaires who turn fertile farm lands into enclaves for the rich. Fisherfolk lose their livelihood as the seas are taken over by warships and coastlines are reclaimed by big business. Meanwhile, the regime plunders people’s money to make Marcos’ cronies rich, while weaponizing the issue of corruption against political and economic rivals.
The Marcos regime uses its conflict with Duterte to deceive the people and distract and derail the people’s protest for genuine reforms and accountability. It has forged alliances with pseudo-progressive parties and organizations to sow division among the people and redirect the people’s outrage away from the corrupt Marcos ruling clique.
At the core of today’s present crisis is not only the contest between two reactionary cliques vying for power but US imperialism’s intensifying stranglehold on the Philippines. In its design to make the country a forward military base within the First Island Chain, it supports puppet regimes in exchange for free access to our land, air, and seas. Just this year, 500 operations were launched in the guise of military exercises, or “humanitarian and disaster response”, a Tomahawk missile has been launched within Philippine soil while US warships patrol Philippine seas.









