National Democratic Front of the Philippines
National Democratic Front of the Philippines Pambansang Demokratikong Prente ng Pilipinas | |
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| Abbreviation | NDFP |
| Leader | Julieta De Lima-Sison |
| Founders |
Jose Maria Sison Fidel Agcaoili Luis Jalandoni |
| Founded | April 24, 1973 |
| Newspaper | Liberation |
| Political orientation |
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism National Democracy |
| Political position | Far-left |
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| https://www.ndfp.org/ | |
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The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is the revolutionary United front of the Communist Party of the Philippines and serves as its political wing since 1973. It consists of a broad coalition of trade unions, agricultural unions, indigenous rights groups, revolutionaary social justice groups, and other related organizations. It also engaged and is currently aiming to engage in peace negotiations with the reactionary Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP).
12 Point Program of the National Democratic Front
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines outlines its program in 12 points which addresses the fundamental problems and contradictions in Philippine society.[1]
- Unite the people for the overthrow of the semicolonial and semifeudal system through a people’s war and for the completion of the national democratic revolution.
- Establish a People’s Democratic Republic and a democratic coalition government.
- Build the people‘s army and a people’s defense system.
- Uphold and promote the people’s democratic rights.
- Terminate all unequal relations with the United States and other foreign entities.
- Implement genuine agrarian reform, promote agricultural cooperation, raise rural production and employment through modernization of agriculture and rural industrialization and ensure agricultural sustainability.
- Break the US – big comprador – landlord dominance over the economy, carry out national industrialization and build an independent and self-reliant economy.
- Adopt a comprehensive and progressive social policy.
- Promote a national and progressive people’s culture.
- Uphold the rights of the Bangsa Moro and the Cordillera peoples and other indigenous peoples to self-determination and democracy.
- Advance the revolutionary emancipation of women in all spheres.
- Adopt an active, independent and peaceful foreign policy.
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References
- ↑ National Democratic Front of the Philippines. "The Twelve Points of the NDF Program".