Philippine Marxist–Leninist Party
Philippine Marxist–Leninist Party Partido Marxista–Leninista ng Pilipinas | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 7 November 2001[1] |
| Split from | Revolutionary Workers' Party[2] |
| Armed wing | Partisans (Armed Operative of the Philippine Marxist–Leninist Party) |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
The Philippine Marxist–Leninist Party (Tagalog: Partido Marxista–Leninista ng Pilipinas, PMLP) is a communist party in the Philippines. Established in 2001 from the remnant of the Alex Boncayao Brigade known as the Bloke, which earlier broke from Popoy Lagman's Manila–Rizal Regional Party Committee and Arturo Tabara's Revolutionary Workers' Party.
Its armed wing, more known by its Tagalog name Partisano, conducts assassinations of government officials which are regarded as 'enemies of the people′ as a strategy for igniting a proletarian revolution in the country.[3]
History
Origin
The PMLP draws its membership from the rump Alex Boncayao Brigade, the former urban assassination unit of the Communist Party of the Philippines in Metro Manila and Rizal during the 1980s and the early 1990s. This rump group, which is mostly based in Malabon, Valenzuela, and Manila,[4] took the name of Metro Manila–Rizal Regional Party Committee and eventually established the PMLP in a founding congress which lasted from 7 to 10 November 2001. They later renamed themselves in a majority vote to Partisans (Partisano) and became the armed component of the new party,[5] now collectively known as PMLP–Partisano. A report by the RPM-P in 2004 claimed that a large portion of the PMLP's membership has since rejoined the former.[6]
Ideology
The PMLP espouses the Manila–Rizal Regional Party Committee's distinct variation of the politico–military strategy originally used by the National Liberation Front of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. First implemented during the last quarter of 1988, it envisions a combination of political struggle and military struggle in order to build a broad network of supporters and sympathisers for urban partisan warfare.[7] This type of warfare takes the form of assassinations, expropriations, and other punitive acts in order to encourage a mass action in the urban areas, which is often crticised as 'insurrectionary' and 'ultra-leftist' by other Philippine communists.[8][9]
References
- ^ Cantos, Joy (6 December 2001). "Killers nina Pring at Zarcal, naaresto". Philstar.com.
- ^ Pabico, Alecks P. (31 August 2007). "PCIJ: Flashback: The Great Left Divide". GMA News Online. Archived from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
- ^ Santos, Soliman M.; Paredes, Artha Kira R.; Dinampo, Octavio A. (2010). "Partido Marxista–Leninista ng Pilipinas (Marxist–Leninist Party of the Philippines) and its Partisano (Partisans) Group (PMLP–Partisano)". Primed and purposeful: armed groups and human security efforts in the Philippines: a joint publication of the South-South Network for Non-State Armed Group Engagement and the Small Arms Survey. Geneva. pp. 307–308. ISBN 978-2-940415-29-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa – Pilipinas. "The Philippine Left Milieu". Marxists Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 19 July 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
- ^ Cantos, Joy (6 December 2001). "Killers nina Pring at Zarcal, naaresto". Philstar.com.
- ^ Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa – Pilipinas (January 2004). Gawain sa Armadong Pakikibaka, Ulat Para Sa Ikalawang Kongreso Ng RPM-P [Tasks in the Armed Struggle, Report for the Second Congress of the RPM-P] (in Tagalog).
- ^ Komiteng Rehiyon ng Metro Manila–Rizal (10 October 1992). "Tumindig sa Tama at Totoo, Pawalang Bisa ang Bogus na Plenum!". Study, Debate, Discussion, Summing-Up: Profound Re-Examination and Revitalization on the Crisis of Socialism, Strategy of Action and Internal Democracy (Big Red Book). Unpublished. p. 91. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.32328.74241.
- ^ Executive Committee, Communist Party of the Philippines (19 March 1991). "On the Concept of the "Pol–Mil" Struggle". Debate: Philippine Left Review (1): 71–73. Archived from the original on 10 January 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Melencio, Sonny; Mohideen, Reihana (January–April 2001). "Critique of the politico-military strategy". LINKS - International Journal of Socialist Renewal (17). Archived from the original on 11 November 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
External links
- Programme of the PMLP Archived 1 April 2025 at the Wayback Machine