Communist
Party of the Philippines
September
18, 2025
GThe upsurge of protests against systemic state corruption continues to mount across the country. It is a manifestation of the seething outrage of the broad masses of the Filipino people against the monstrosity of bureaucrat capitalist plunder that runs to trillions of pesos, which the Marcos regime has engendered.
The anticipated mass protests on September 21 are timed to mark the 53rd anniversary of the declaration of martial law which preceded 14 years of fascist repression and massive corruption under the Marcos Sr regime. It will serve well as an occasion to indict Marcos Jr for having benefited from the wealth amassed during his father's dictatorship and for perpetuating the same oppressive and exploitative system.
Desperate to shield itself from the people's anger, Malacañang has mounted a public relations campaign to reverse the Marcoses' long-time disrespute as icons of corruption. It has drawn the public's attention to carefully selected anomalous flood-control projects involving hundreds of billions of pesos, but only to pin down rival politicians, their accomplices in the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and their dummy contractors. This is by way of punishing those who have pocketed kickbacks without paying their dues to Marcos. To save himself from discredit and placate the people, Marcos has also made sacrificial lambs of some allied politicians.
To exculpate himself, Marcos formed the "independent commission" purportedly to investigate the anomalous flood-control projects. The Filipino people know fully well that nothing will come out of it. This is the same tactic used by his father who formed the "independent" Agrava Commission to investigate the 1983 Aquino assassination, to deny the glaring fact that the dictator himself hatched the murder. This investigation ordered by Marcos is only meant to mislead the people and draw attention away from the mastermind of corruption himself.
Indeed, Marcos is the mastermind of corruption behind the anomalous flood-control projects, for which he alloted more than P1 trillion since assuming power in 2022. Like all politicians, Marcos receives "campaign donations" from big bourgeois compradors, as well as from corruption syndicates involved in government contracts. Like all his predecessors, Marcos rakes in billions of pesos from kickbacks from multibillion government contracts, which also include roads, bridges, railways, and other big-ticket construction projects, as well as from smuggling, defense contracts, land lease contracts, and a myriad other means of pocketing the people's money.
Marcos lives the good life of the bureaucrat capitalist overlord, indulging in privilege and extravagance. He is notorious for holding exclusive concerts and ostentatious banquets, such as during his recent birthday, even amid the public uproar over corruption. He was roundly condemned for flying to Singapore to watch high-speed car races. He and his wife used public funds to transform the Malacañang grounds into a personalized vacation resort, tailored to their family's whims.
Marcos is an outright liar when he feigned sympathy with the people who are fed up with corruption, claiming further that if he weren't president, he too would join protests. He thinks people have forgotten how he stood beside his father as the dictator ordered the military to break up the demonstrations at EDSA in 1986. As president, Marcos Jr secures his privilege and perpetuates the system by firmly wielding the coercive powers of the fascist state to suppress all forms of mass resistance.
The legacy of his father's 14-year fascist dictatorship lives on under the reign of Marcos Jr. Organizers and members of workers unions, community associations, student organizations, as well as human rights workers, are subjected to state surveillance, harassment, and violent attacks by state forces. Hundreds of political prisoners remain incarcerated. He has also ordered military forces to impose martial law in thousands of rural villages to subdue the people's defense of their land and livelihood against the entry or expansion of plantations and mining operations. Violations of human rights and international humanitarian law run rampant.
Marcos, as chief of the bureaucrat capitalist state, is the king of corruption who demands obeisance of all his men. He is the chief fascist who rules with an iron fist, wielding state power to crush all dissent and resistance. He is the chief American puppet and factotum serving the strategic economic, financial and military interests of the US imperialists.
The Filipino people are victims of widespread and systemic corruption and fascism. They suffer from deteriorating social services, rising cost of living, low wages, widespread joblessness, economic dispossession, and overall worsening socioeconomic conditions.
As victims seeking justice, the Filipino people are gathering in the streets and rising up in protest, to indict Marcos and demand that all be held accountable for their crimes. The Filipino people must strengthen their unity, build their organizations and expand and heighten their protests in the coming months. To do so, they must also expose and repudiate those political forces that connive with Malacañang in the scheme to draw public anger away from Marcos. Marcos' attempts to assuage the people with pretentious but hollow displays of addressing massive corruption have only fueled calls for his resignation or ouster and a total shake-up of the corrupt bureaucracy.
Even as they mount bigger protests against Marcos and massive corruption under his rule, the Filipino people must raise and link their protests to the overall struggle to put an end to the oppressive and exploitative semicolonial and semifeudal system. This system is under the class rule of the big bourgeois compradors, the bureacrat capitalists and big landlords.
These classes in the Philippines were engendered by US imperialism and control the neocolonial state. They are all beholden, subservient to and collude with US imperialism in plundering the country's resources and in subjecting the broad masses of the people to fascist repression. The bureaucrat capitalists, in particular, use state power to plunder the people's money and amass wealth for themselves through all forms of corruption.
In the end, the struggle against corruption and all forms of oppression against the Filipino people, goes beyond the removal of Marcos or the ouster of the entire government. Systemic corruption can only be uprooted by waging a national democratic revolution to overthrow the entire class of bureaucrat capitalists, the big bourgeois compradors and big landlords, their US-supported fascist state machinery, and replacing it with a government of genuine people's democracy.
The
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) urges the Filipino people to
further strengthen their revolutionary organizations, expand the
broad ranks of the National Democratic Front, and support and join
the New People's Army. The corrupt and repressive system defended by
US-supplied weapons and imperialist indoctrinated armed forces, can
and will be defeated by the people rising up in arms for national
liberation and social justice.
Le 9 septembre, une unité de la NPA (Nouvelle Armée Populaire) a attaqué des militaires dans la province de Mindoro oriental. L’opération a fait un mort et deux blessés côtés militaires. Dans leurs déclarations publiques, la 1re Brigade d’infanterie et la 203e Brigade d’infanterie ont nié les pertes, malgré de nombreuses publications sur les réseaux sociaux montrant leurs soldats morts et blessés en train d’être embarqués à bord d’un hélicoptère. En représailles, avoir subi des pertes, l’armée a riposté contre la population civile, effectuant des bombardements, des tirs d’artillerie et des mitraillages dans la nuit du 9 septembre jusqu’au petit matin du 10 septembre.
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