Hundreds of members of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) allied organizations held a lightning rally in Divisoria in Manila earlier today as part of the Front’s 52nd founding anniversary celebrations, calling for the intensification of the armed revolution in the country.
Displaying flags and placards, members of the NDFP’s 17 organizations also called on the Filipino people to unite and push forward their national democratic revolution amid the chaos of the 2025 midterm elections.
The NDFP was established in April 24, 1973.
The rallyists also highlighted NDFP’s 12-point program it embodies the dreams and aspirations of the Filipino people.
“NDFP’s 12-point program is the solution to the chronic crisis of the semicolonial and semifeudal system that no reactionary elections could ever resolve,” NDFP secretary general Elias Dipasupil said last April 24.
Underground organizations that took part in the lightning rally included the Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions, Pambansang Katipunan ng Magbubukid, Katipunan ng mga Samahang Manggagawa, Pambansang Samahan ng Makabayang Tsuper, Kabataang Makabayan, Christians for National Liberation, Katipunan ng Gurong Makabayan,
Makabayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan, Samahang Pangkalusugan, Liga ng Agham para sa Bayan, Lupon ng Manananggol para sa Bayan, Artista at Manunulat para sa Bayan, Revolutionary Organizations of Overseas Filipinos and their Families.
Police officers in the nearby precinct failed to react to the lightning rally, allowing the event to finish without incident.
Vendors in the crowded shopping center of Manila asked what the rally was about, several expressing support to calls for radical changes in society.
The NDFP said it upholds the primacy of revolutionary armed struggle to dismantle the “rotten semicolonial and semifeudal system” pervading in the Philippines.
It added it is creating a new system through the development of the revolutionary organs of power in the countryside in its 52 years of struggle.
Dipasupil added: “While still in struggle, these organs of political power already flesh out and execute, in various levels, components of the NDFP 12-point program such as the minimum program for land reform, education and health services, environmental protection, justice system, among others.”
“The Filipino people deserves nothing but freedom from oppression and exploitation. They deserve a just, humane and progressive society and a government that truly serves their dreams and aspirations. And the only means to achieve this is to advance the national democratic revolution to victory,” Dipasupil said. # (Report and photos by Raymund B. Villanueva)
