The National Democratic Front of the Philippines celebrated its 49th Founding Anniversary on 24 April. Messages of congratulations poured in from the NDFP allied organizations, led by the Communist Party of the Philippines: “Let us celebrate the achievements and victories of the NDFP in its work of uniting the Filipino people and mobilizing them along the path of the national democratic revolution.

“In the coming year, let us continue to vigorously promote the national democratic program and aspirations of the Filipino people, expand the ranks of the NDFP and its allied organizations at an unprecedented rate, as we look forward to celebrating the NDFP’s golden anniversary next year.” 

Several gatherings took place in various parts of the Philippines, as well as abroad, to celebrate the 49th Founding Anniversary of the NDFP.

The CPP declared in its message, “The NDFP represents the people’s democratic government, which is the collective expression of the thousands of organs of political power at the village and higher levels, spread throughout the country… In its territories, the NDFP implements the program for land reform, raising agricultural production and supplementary income from sideline occupation, campaigns for public health, education and literacy, maintaining peace and order, resolving contradictions among the people, and people’s defense.”

The Party acclaimed the NDFP for mobilizing and helping the Filipino masses in coping with the pandemic and providing public health care services – information campaign, sanitation drives, mass clinics – and its educational work among the masses.

It also praised the NDFP for “brilliantly representing the people’s democratic government” in the field of foreign relations. “It has established state-to-state, state-to-people, and people-to-people solidarity relations and has been at the forefront and active participant in international anti-imperialist formations. It has formal relations with foreign governments and various international agencies, humanitarian organizations and peace institutions.”

The CPP further extolled the NDFP for engaging the Government of the Republic of the Philippines in peace negotiations, “without falling into the fascist trap of pacification, demobilization and capitulation. It has succeeded in establishing the principle for a just and lasting peace attainable by addressing the social, economic and political roots of the armed conflict, and demonstrating how this framework is vastly superior to the militarist notion of ‘localized peace’ attained through military suppression of the people’s rights and resistance.”