NDFP International Office
Today, as we mark the 52nd founding year of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), we raise high the banner of revolutionary struggle and reaffirm our commitment to the Filipino people’s historic fight for genuine national liberation and democracy.
On this historic occasion, we honor all revolutionary martyrs and heroes who have dedicated their lives to the people’s struggle. We salute the broad masses, revolutionary forces, and allied organizations under the NDFP who persevere in the face of brutal repression under the US-Marcos Jr. regime’s counterrevolutionary war.
Fifty-two years ago, in the thick of Marcos’s fascist dictatorship and under the iron heel of US imperialist domination, the NDFP was established to unify and represent the Filipino people’s revolutionary forces. It emerged as a broad united front of the oppressed and exploited, determined to end the semicolonial and semifeudal conditions that continue to plague Philippine society. Today, those conditions have only deepened—and so has the necessity of revolutionary armed resistance.
Amid intensifying global and domestic crises, imperialist powers are increasingly locked in sharpening inter-imperialist rivalry and are unleashing ever more aggressive economic, political, and military interventions to preserve their declining hegemony. From Eastern Europe to West Asia, to the South China Sea, the threats of fascism and imperialist-instigated wars loom large. The crisis of the global capitalist system continues to deepen, pushing more countries into debt, austerity, and dependency.
The Philippines, long mired in the chains of semicolonial and semifeudal rule, stands most vulnerable to these convulsions. Under the Marcos Jr. regime, foreign domination has only worsened. Our lands, labor, and sovereignty are auctioned off to imperialist powers through military agreements, neoliberal economic policies, and the violent repression of resistance. The aggressive US military presence in the archipelago under so-called EDCA (Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement) sites, the Balikatan exercises, and the deepening exploitation of Filipino migrant labor, reflect the regime’s betrayal of national interest and its subservience to imperialist dictates.
Yet the crisis reveals not only the decaying foundations of the ruling system—it also sharpens the Filipino people’s will to resist.
The semicolonial and semifeudal conditions in the Philippines are not mere historical residues—they are the very foundation of the deepening crisis that has condemned generations of Filipinos to poverty, repression, and forced migration. These structural roots of suffering cannot be solved by reforms under the current ruling system, which only serves to reinforce imperialist plunder, bureaucrat capitalist greed, and feudal exploitation. Armed resistance, through protracted people’s war, is not only just but necessary. It is the only path to dismantle the state machinery that defends foreign domination and class oppression. It is the only road toward asserting national sovereignty and achieving genuine democracy.
The International Office of the NDFP bears witness to the growing solidarity of peoples and revolutionary forces across the world. We see our struggle as parallel to workers striking across Europe, peasants resisting land grabs in Latin America, national minorities reclaiming their rights and lands, and national liberation movements fighting imperialism in all its forms.
As the NDFP continues to strengthen its revolutionary alliances and expand its presence in international arenas, we underscore the urgent need to build solidarity among peoples resisting imperialism. The growing interest in and support for the Philippine revolution, from working-class movements, oppressed peoples, and progressive organizations around the world, affirm the justness of our cause.
In the Philippines, the masses are already forging ahead with the revolutionary path—building Red political power in the countryside, waging agrarian revolution, and advancing the people’s war to ever higher stages.
On the NDFP’s 52nd anniversary, we raise the militant call to all Filipino compatriots overseas to to raise their inherent patriotism to revolutionary commitment for the attainment of genuine national freedom and democracy. They can significantly contribute to its fulfillment through their support and direct participation in the people’s war for national liberation.
Let us celebrate this anniversary by strengthening our revolutionary unity, building revolutionary organizations of Filipinos wherever they may be, and advancing the people’s war.
Long live the National Democratic Front of the Philippines!
Long live the people’s democratic revolution!
Down with US imperialism and its puppets!
Victory to our people’s war!
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is the revolutionary united front organization of the Filipino people fighting for national freedom and for the democratic rights of the people. The NDFP seeks to develop and coordinate all progressive classes, sectors and forces in the Filipino people’s struggle to end the rule of US imperialism and its local allies of big landlords and compradors, and attain national and social liberation.