National Democratic Front Of The Philippines
July 4, 2026
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States and the commemoration of “Philippine-American Friendship Day”, Compatriots-NDFP, the revolutionary organization of overseas Filipinos, enjoins the Filipino people to see the United States for what it really is: an imperialist superpower that, now more than ever, is desperate to maintain its neo-colonial control over the Philippines.
While the ruling classes continue to celebrate a so-called friendship between the two countries, July 4 reminds us that the Filipino people’s struggle for genuine national liberation remains unfinished. The formal granting of independence in 1946 did not end US domination over the Philippines. It successfully retained neo-colonial rule with the support of the Filipino landlord, bourgeois comprador, and bureaucrat capitalist classes that manage foreign control over the country’s economy, politics, military, and culture.
Eight decades after the declaration of bogus Philippine independence from the US, the country’s economy remains bound to the interests of foreign monopoly capital and its local comprador, landlord, and bureaucrat capitalist allies. Unequal agreements, neo-liberal policies, and military dependence have preserved the semi-colonial and semi-feudal character of Philippine society. The country’s vast natural wealth continues to be extracted for foreign profit while millions of Filipinos suffer from landlessness, unemployment, depressed wages, and the absence of genuine national industrialization. The Labor Export Policy has likewise condemned generations of Filipinos to leave their homes and families in search of livelihoods abroad, making migration a structural consequence of imperialist domination rather than a matter of individual choice.
As the US marks the 250th year of its founding, it confronts worsening economic crisis, intensified rivalry with competing powers, and growing resistance from oppressed peoples across the Global South. To preserve its global dominance, US imperialism has accelerated military expansion throughout the Asia-Pacific, strengthened its military and economic alliances, and tightened control over strategic technologies, critical mineral supply chains, and global production networks. The Philippine government has willingly integrated the country into these strategic objectives at the expense of national sovereignty and the welfare of the Filipino people.
