Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930

Partido Kommunista ng Pilipinas-1930
Abbreviation	PKP-1930
Chairman	Eduardo Landayan
Founded	August 26, 1930
Newspaper	Sulong!
Political orientation	Revisionism Right opportunism National democracy(Sympathetic)
Website
http://pkp-1930.com/

The Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas - 1930 (PKP-1930) is the old revisionist "communist" party in the Philippines which sided with the Soviet Union post-1956. It was refounded by Jose Maria Sison on 26 December 1968 as the CPP during the First Great Rectification Movement. Since then, it is notorious for largely defending and apologizing for the crimes of the reactionary government against the New People's Army, the armed wing of the new Communist Party of the Philippines.

History

Founding, illegalization, and merging

It was orginially founded by the communist labor organizer Crisanto Evangelista and former members of the Partido Obrero de Filipinas. The party was later outlawed by 1932 by the US-puppet Commonwealth regime. by 1935, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party of the Philippines merged on November 7, 1938, with the assistance of the Communist Party USA. After the merger, the Lava political family began to establish their right opportunistic petty-bourgeois political line within the Party. Before the beginning of the Second World War in the Pacific, the party encrouraged the masses to boycott Japanese goods and establish "labor battalions" under a united anti-fascist front.

People's War against Japanese occupation

Following the Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, many party members fled to the countryside as many members who resided in the urban areas were arrested, including Crisanto Evangelista who was later executed in 1943 by the Japanese fascists. On February 6, 1942, a conference of the party was held, with Vicente Lava as the General Secretary, and decided to organize a guerilla army. The latter was formed on March 9, 1942 as the HUKBALAHAP (Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon) or the People's Anti-Japanese Army.It was a united front that included farmers, students, women, and even sympathetic landlords in their ranks to fight in a patriotic front, regardless of rich or poor, against the Japanese occupation. Rebel encampments, at first, were decentralized and nomadic, but as the war progressed, entire villages of village supporters could be used as bases of operations. The Huk Rebellion successfully battled the Japanese out of Central Luzon and eventually led to the liberation of the Luzon Archipelago until the return of the United States, who the party later collabortated with that only deepened their rightist line.

The "Huk" Rebellion

After the "independence" of the Philippines from the U.S., former HUKBALAHAP and other left wing forces attempted to lead a legal reformist line through the Democratic Alliance (DA), chaired by Huk Chairman of the military department Luis Taruc.The Philippine government, burdened economically and societally, sought it was preferable to turn a blind eye on the traitors of the Japanese occupation in the guise of national unity and to be economically dependent on the United States. Due to the anti-communist stigma during the onset of the Cold War, followed by the harassment of Huk veterans, the suppression and ransacking of peasant unions and trade unions, the refusal to consider agrarian and labor issues, delegitimization of the left leaders, and the intensification of security for landlords by military forces. After the disappearance and death of a former Huk leader, it was signaled as a last straw for the Democratic Alliance to consider any negotiation with the government and signaled the return to armed struggle, this time against the post-war Philippine government.

The Huks rebranded into the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (People’s Liberation Army, HMB), with a military adventurist line to combat American imperialism over the Philippines. It was lead by Jose Lava as General Secretary and the return of Luis Taruc as a military commander, whom the former, in spite of it being a peasant army, commanded the army from the cities. The rebellion was later crushed by the government due to party infighting between the Lava brothers and the Taruc brothers and the election of the populist Ramon Magsaysay as President who passed some liberal agrarian and infastructure reforms. Luis Taruc was later arrested and began to adopt a capitulationist line.

Fall of the party to Lavaite Revisionism

After Party infighting, Jesus Lava secured leadership of the Party. With the spread of Soviet revisionism by Nikita Khrushchev, the PKP later adapted the policy of the "Peaceful road to Socialism" and resumed the legal electoralist struggle again. It was during this period that Jesus Lava acting alone decided to adopt the liquidationist "single-file" policy. This policy required one Party member to be in contact with only one other Party member, which drastically impacted party membership. Jesus Lava was later arrested in 1964.

See also

• Communist Party of the Philippines
• Jose Maria Sison
• HUKBALAHAP

Further reading

• Rectify Errors, Rebuild the Party! by the Congress of Re-Establishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines