The US-Marcos regime is delusional in peddling the fantasy that it is about to put an end to the Filipino people’s armed resistance, CPP chief information officer Marco Valbuena stressed in a statement last 13 May.

The CPP said Marcos and his fascist factotums in the NTC-Elcac (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) are only fooling themselves as they unveiled their so-called National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD), claiming that the New People’s Army (NPA) has only one remaining guerrilla front in the country.

“These false claims are readily debunked by their own actions, as they continue to deploy scores of combat battalions against units of the NPA nationwide. They talk of “peace and development” but bring only tyranny and destruction,” the CPP emphasized.

“How can there be peace when they continue to refuse to acknowledge and address the problem of landlessness that lie at the root of the armed conflict? Contrary to the claims of the NTF-Elcac, a few road and infrastructure projects will not bring development to peasant communities,” the CPP added.

The CPP said that the NAP-UPD and Marcos’ recent Memorandum Circular No. 83, only reveal their plan to further intensify the political repression of progressive organizations and critics to silence all dissent.

“By clamping down on these organizations who seek redress within the bounds of the reactionary constitution, and restrict the legal avenue of struggle, the Marcos regime, in fact, is inciting people to take the path of armed struggle and join or support the New People’s Army,” the CPP stressed.

“The Red fighters and commanders of the NPA have no intention of being defeated. Inspired and guided by the rectification movement, and by the memory of all their fallen heroes and martyrs, they are determined as ever to frustrate the all-out fascist war being waged by Marcos and his fascist minions,” the CPP declared.

In a similar statement, Elias Dipasupil, Secretary-General of the NDFP, said the NAP-UPD and Marcos’ Memorandum Circular No. 83, are panic moves of the Marcos fascist regime and its US operatives over the advancing people’s armed revolutionary struggle.

Dipasupil said the regime is poised to intensify repression of “legal democratic forces… urban centers, schools, and cyberspace”. This he said is “amid the continuous slide of the US-Marcos regime’s popularity, the rising people’s movement against corruption and political dynasties, the demand for transparency and accountability in government, and the call for pro-people economic policies such as higher wages and lower prices.”

Unable to address the roots of the armed conflict, the regime Dipasupil said, will inflict more repression on the people.

“Fascist repression during Martial Law pushed many peace-loving youth to take up arms to continue the fight for democracy. By intentionally shrinking the space for open, legitimate dissent, Marcos junior may yet follow his father’s footsteps in becoming the NPA’s biggest recruiter,” the NDFP official emphasized.