The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), in a statement issued 10 October 2024, commemorated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The PRC was established following the victory of the people’s democratic revolution on 1 October 1949 led by the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong. 

The CPP pointed out that the current leadership of China has veered away from the revolutionary path and has taken the capitalist road since 1978, but the lessons of the people’s democratic revolution from 1921 to 1949 remain valid. It guides and inspires the world's proletariat and people in waging revolutionary struggle against imperialism, fascism and all reaction.

The CPP said, “...we reaffirm the correctness of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the necessity of using it as a theoretical and ideological guide to the practical revolutionary action of the Filipino people, as they wage national democratic revolution against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.”

The CPP pointed out that the victory of the revolution clearly proved the correctness and necessity of waging protracted people's war in a semicolonial and semifeudal country. The lessons of the protracted people's war in China have inspired and guided the working class and people in waging revolutionary struggles in semicolonial and semifeudal countries across the world.

After winning against imperialism and feudalism, the Chinese people laid down the basis for unparalleled economic, social and cultural growth. They completed in just four years, 1949-1953, the revolutionary land reform that liberated tens of millions of tillers from feudalism. The people’s government established state control of the economy.

Chairman Mao, drawing lessons from the rise of modern revisionism and eventual capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union after 1956, led the Chinese workers and people to successfully wage the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1977). It took the line "grasp class struggle, promote production," underscoring the need to fight modern revisionism as key to building socialism.

Modern revisionists eventually took away political power from the proletariat through a violent counterrevolution in 1978. They broke up the communes and cooperatives and workers committees were dismantled. Bureaucrats and managers took away power from the hands of workers and people. One by one, social guarantees were abolished. A state monopoly bourgeoisie emerged from bureaucrats who privately appropriated the gains of socialist revolution, while hundreds of millions of workers and peasants fell into the quagmire of poverty.

The CPP concludes, “As we remember the 75th year of the victory of the Chinese revolution, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Filipino people draw inspiration from the victories of the Chinese people, in waging the arduous struggle to fight and overthrow imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. As the Chinese people stood up in 1949, the Filipino people are bound to rise and put an end to the monstrous and ruthless enemies of national freedom, democracy and socialism.”