The history of the Revolutionary Workers
Party-Philippines (RPM-P)
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- May First Message of the Communist Party of
the Philippines
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- From Press-Agency Ozgurluk, 2 May 1997. The crisis of
the world capitalist system is rapidly worsening, and the
people are launching mass actions in order to resist the
onslaughts of the monopoly bourgeoisie. The Communist
Party of the Philippines requires its cadres and members
to follow the line of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and pursues
the new democratic revolution in order to lead the broad
masses of the people and employ effectively both the armed
struggle and the united front to overthrow the enemy.
- Further Splits In Philippines Left
- By Sharon Pereira, Green Left Weekly, 16
July 1997. The changing situation in the Philippines has
led to factionalism in the Communist Party, with the
Lagman faction abandoning the Party's Sisonite
(Maoist)/Stalinist armed vanguardist tradition to become a
legal mass organization in unity with the radical
workers' centre—Solidarity of Filipino
Workers.
- Left Groups Out to Outdo One
Another
- Philippine Daily Inquirer, 28 July
1997. Gross economic performance suggests reason for
factionalization. The BMP (Bukluran ng Manggagawang
Pilipino led by Popoy Lagman), Bayan, and the new CAP 2000
moderate left group.
- Constitution and by-laws
- The Revolutionary Workers Party-Philippines, 1 May
1998. The constitution ratified by the founding congress
of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng
Manggagawa—Philippines (Revoltuionary Worker's
Part of the Philippines, on 1 May 1998.
- New Workers' Party
- International Viewpoint interview with RWP
representataives, Wednesday 16 December 1998. The
Revolutionary Workers Party-Philippines is the largest
regroupment since the explosion of the Communist Party of
the Philippines in 1992-3. Over the last five years, the
groups which form the new party have moved decisively away
from their Mao-Stalinist origins, developing a dynamic and
pluralist strand of revolutionary Marxism that is quite
new in the Philippines.
- History: Introduksyon
- Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa/Revolutionary
Workers Party, [1999]. Ang pagbabalik aral sa kasaysayan
ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ni Crisanto Evangelista
at ng Stalinista-Maoistang Partido ni Jose Maria Sison ay
isa sa mga mahahalagang sangkap para sa muling pagtatayo
ng Partido—ng Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng
Manggagawa (in Tagalog).
- RPM-P: Brief profile
- Revolutionary Workers Party-Philippines, [1999]. Despite
difficulties, the Party has achieved modest gains since its
founding as a national organization on 1 May 1998. Here
its stand on the mass movement, army building, and Party
building.
- The revolutionary mass movement
- Revolutionary Workers Party-Philippines, [1999]. We will
develop and advance the revolutionary mass movement as the
main form of struggle while promoting its dynamic
relationship with other forms of struggle (i.e. armed,
electoral/parliamentary, etc.) that stand as secondary,
tertiary, etc. forms of struggle. This will be our conduct
until the condition ripens—when the working class
and other oppressed sections of the people are ready to
seize political power.
- Program of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng
Manggagawa-Philippines
- LINKS, no. 13, September–December
1999. The Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng
Manggagawa-Philippines (RPM-P)—the Revolutionary
Workers' Party-Philippines—is one of the
organisations emerging from splits in the Maoist Communist
Party of the Philippines in 1993-4. It was based primarily
on cadres in Visayas and Mindanao. The RPM-P held its
first congress on May 1-10, 1998, approving a new party
constitution and other documents. Reprinted here is an
English translation of the RPM-P's program.
- Tabara and Dela Cruz: Scoundrels
Masquerading as Revolutionaries
- Press statement by Popoy Lagman, 27 December 1999. We
welcome the decision of Arturo Tabara—Nilo dela Cruz
renegade gang in unmasking itself completely as a bunch of
scoundrels by seeking
peace
with the Estrada
government.
- 'Tis the season for unholy
alliances
- Press Statement by Popoy Lagman, Chairman, BMP, 11
December 2000. Unprincipled compromises and unholy
alliances: on the one hand, Joma Sison has endorsed Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo to be presidential successor, while on
the other, de la Cruz and Tabara have embraced Erap at
just the moment when he needs all the support he can
get. The warring factions of the elite have evidently
weakened themselves that they need crutches from the
opportunist and reformist wings of the Left.
- A comparison between the Bolsheviks at
Brest Litovsk and talks today in the Philippines
- By Felix Zorba, November 2003. The Maoist and Stalinist
leaders of the CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines)
have been mere onlookers every time an important movement
of the working class has taken place in the key areas of
the country. Stalinism's starting point is that there
is a progressive wing of the bourgeoisie that can complete
the tasks of the democratic revolution.