Official NDFP Statement: We Are Not Preparing For War, We Are Waging WarThe national democratic revolutionary movement is not only preparing for war, we are waging a revolutionary war in the interest of the Filipino people. We have been waging this for democracy and national liberation since 1969, and the reactionary government has been using all its military might against the people’s war these past decades. When Lt. General Brawner called for the AFP to prepare for war in case of an invasion of Taiwan, he is only declaring his puppetry to the US, to fight a war not for the Filipino people but for his imperialist masters. The US imperialist regime, through neo-colonial agreements, continues to establish military bases and installations all over our country, to stockpile attack weapons including missiles, and provoke nearby China to war, while wallowing in plundered wealth in the safety of its own far-away mainland. With the coming “biggest ever” Balikatan which the puppet Marcos regime so proudly and willingly hosts, the Philippines is being prepped to absorb a war the US regime is so eager to wage. It is extreme folly to believe in the US’s “iron-clad commitment” to the Philippines, because even iron is eroded by the rust of imperialist greed.
https://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/philippines/official-ndfp-statement-we-are-not-preparing-for-war-we-are-waging-war/Reflections on the US Communist Movement: Foster’s History of the CPUSAOur current situation is one where the old party has long since renounced the organizational and ideological principles of Marxism-Leninism. Its leadership hypocritically invokes democratic centralism, a core Leninist principle, while crushing internal party democracy whenever it conflicts with their policy of serving as the left-flank of the Democratic Party. Proletarian internationalism, once a pillar of the communist ideology of the party, has been hollowed out, with the party backing anti-communist social democrats abroad, even in places like Venezuela, where such forces violently repress the workers’ communist movement. The result? A working class stripped of its revolutionary leadership, disarmed in the class struggle, and left to the mercy of bourgeois parties that offer no escape from deepening exploitation. All this in a country ripe with the material basis for the transformation into socialism-communism and the end of exploitation. To confront this crisis and better understand its historical causes, the CWPUSA needs to study the history of the communist movement in our country. William Z. Foster provided an essential foundation for this task with his work, History of the Communist Party of the United States.
https://newworker.us/theory-history/reflections-on-the-us-communist-movement-fosters-history-of-the-cpusa/Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread: Chapter 1: Our richesIn our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all, in return for a few hours of daily toil? The Socialists have said it and repeated it unwearyingly. Daily they reiterate it, demonstrating it by arguments taken from all the sciences. It is because all that is necessary for production – the land, the mines, the highways, machinery, food, shelter, education, knowledge – all have been seized by the few in the course of that long story of robbery, enforced migration and wars, of ignorance and oppression, which has been the life of the human race before it had learned to subdue the forces of Nature. It is because, taking advantage of alleged rights acquired in the past, these few appropriate to-day two-thirds of the products of human labour, and then squander them in the most stupid and shameful way. It is because, having reduced the masses to a point at which they have not the means of subsistence for a month, or even for a week in advance, the few can allow the many to work, only on the condition of themselves receiving the lion’s share. It is because these few prevent the remainder of men from producing the things they need, and force them to produce, not the necessaries of life for all, but whatever offers the greatest profits to the monopolists. In this is the substance of all Socialism.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm#chapter01