Philippine**KM calls on the youth: Intensify the people’s war, end the imperialist crisis!**

PRESS RELEASE

By Ma. LAYA GUERRERO

Spokesperson, Kabataang Makabayan

01 December 2011

**KM calls on the youth: Intensify the people’s war, end the
imperialist crisis!**

Revolutionary youth from different schools and communities in Metro
Manila staged a lightning rally in Manila today to call on the youth
to join the people’s war and end the impact of the US financial
crisis. The lightning rally was their way of commemorating the 47th
anniversary of Kabataang Makabayan (KM, Patriotic Youtch), the only
revolutionary youth organization existing in the Philippines up to
present.

“Everywhere around the world, the youths are up in arms against
imperialism,” KM National Spokesperson Maria Laya Guerrero declared.

“The US imperialist financial crisis has wreaked havoc throughout
the world, particularly on semi-colonial countries like the
Philippines. The people’s outrage against the way the bourgeoisie
concentrates the world’s wealth in their hands, has now reached a
breaking point. Various spontaneous movements and even the Occupy
movement have sprung up in different cities around the world, rocking
the foundations of the capitalist society,” Guerrero added.

According to the revolutionary youth group, in a country such as the
Philippines -- a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society -- the only way to
intensify the people’s resistance to imperialism is to partake in
the protracted people’s war which is being waged at the Philippine
countryside through the leadership of the vanguard Communist Party of
the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army.

“The imperialist powers continue to redirect its crisis to our
country as it plunders our nation’s wealth and resources. The
continuing capitalist financial crisis worsens poverty, budget cuts on
social services, rising of prices of basic commodities and
landlessness in the country.” Guerrero explained.

The revolutionary youth group calls on the youth of today to heighten
the struggle for national democracy. “Let us not think twice in
offering our lives to continue this struggle, for thousands of youth
have already sacrificed their lives to emancipate the country from its
decrepit situation. Let no hindrance stop us from joining and
heightening the armed struggle,” Guerrero said.

“With uprisings sweeping across the world, the imperialist system is
shaken to its core. There is no more appropriate time to intensify the
people’s war but now. With the youth’s force gaining force, the
victory of the revolution is close at hand,” Guerrero declared.

[Click on the links below to watch video clips of the lightning rally
conducted by the Kabataang Makabayan in the middle of Manila on 01
December 2011]

[Video Clip 1] <http://vimeo.com/33035795>

[Video Clip 2] <http://vimeo.com/33038917>

[Video Clip 3] <http://vimeo.com/33042423>



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