The Friends of the Filipino Struggle (FFPS) will launch on August 26 a Global Day of Action to support the Filipino people’s struggle for national liberation. The activity marks the anniversary of the Cry of Pugad Lawin where Andres Bonifaction led the tearing of cedulas as a symbol of the Filipino people’s resistance against the Spanish colonizers. It is said that the first armed clash between the Guardia Civil and the Katipuneros took place on that same day.
“Thus, even more than a hundred years later after the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the Filipino peoples’ struggle continues through a new type of revolution – the people’s democratic revolution – participated in by thousands of revolutionaries from the National Democratic Front and its allied organizations. Through the people’s war, the Filipino people lay the ground to a genuinely sovereign, nationally industrialized country governed by a people’s democratic government,” FFPS said in a statement.
“Through the people’s war, the Filipino people lay the ground to a genuinely sovereign, nationally industrialized country governed by a people’s democratic government,” FFPS added.
The FFPS called on friends and allies to celebrate the struggle of the Filipino people for national liberation through people’s war on August 26. The FFPS also condemned acts of state terrorism perpetrated by the Marcos Jr regime, including the aerial bombings on communities. The FFPS called on the international community to condemn the US and other imperialist powers that threaten the Filipino people’s sovereignty.
According to FFPS “as the Friends of the Filipino people in Struggle, we continue to recognize the justness of the Philippine revolution. We continue to support their aspirations for genuine peace equivalent to social and national liberation.”
