National Democratic Front of the Philippines

National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Pambansang Demokratikong Prente ng Pilipinas
Leader(s)	Luis Jalondoni, Jose Maria Sison
Dates of operation	March 29, 1969 – present
Active region(s)	Philippines
Ideology	Anti-Imperialism Communism Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

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The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) (Filipino: Pambansang Demokratikong Prente ng Pilipinas (PDPP)) is a coalition of progressive social and economic justice organizations, agricultural unions, trade unions, indigenous rights groups, leftist political parties, and other related groups in the Philippines. It belongs to the much broader National Democracy Movement.^[1]

Objectives

The NDFP adopted the following 12-point program to bring about "national liberation and democracy [that] seeks to provide a broad basis of unity for all social classes, sectors, groups and individual Filipinos here and abroad desirous of genuine national freedom and democracy, lasting peace and a progressive Philippines.":^[2]

1. Unite the people for the overthrow of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system through a people’s war and for the completion of the national democratic revolution.
2. Establish a people’s democratic republic and a democratic coalition government.
3. Build the people’s revolutionary army and the people’s defense system.
4. Uphold and promote the people’s democratic rights.
5. Terminate all unequal relations with the United States and other foreign entities.
6. Implement genuine agrarian reform, promote agricultural cooperation, raise rural production and employment through the modernization of agriculture and rural industrialization and ensure agricultural sustainability.
7. Break the combined dominance of the U.S. and other imperialists, big compradors and landlords over the economy. Carry out national industrialization and build an independent and self-reliant economy.
8. Adopt a comprehensive and progressive social policy.
9. Promote a national, scientific and pro-people culture.
10. Uphold the rights to self-determination and democracy of the Moro people, Cordillera peoples and other national minorities or indigenous peoples.
11. Advance the revolutionary emancipation of women in all spheres.
12. Adopt an active, independent and peaceful foreign policy.

Member Organizations

Member of the front include:

• Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)^[3]
• New People's Army (NPA)^[4]
• Moro Resistance and Liberation Organization (MRLO)^[5]

External links

• National Democratic Front of the Philippines (official website)
• International League of Peoples' Struggles (official website)

References