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2025-11-29 04:32:52

Only The National Democratic Revolution Can End Bureaucrat Capitalist Rule: NDFP

The crisis of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal ruling system is quickly reaching a breaking point. As contradictions among the reactionary factions sharpen, both the Marcos clique and the Duterte camp now find themselves increasingly cornered, isolated, and exposed before the Filipino people and the world.

The exposé by Zaldy Co only affirms what the masses have long known: that Marcos Jr directly benefited from congressional insertions tied to corruption-ridden infrastructure projects. This regime, already notorious for its utter incompetence and flagrant extravagance, is once again unmasked as a machinery of plunder. Sinking under the weight of its own illegitimacy, Marcos Jr has grown desperate to secure the favor of his imperialist masters.

To keep himself afloat, Marcos Jr has surrendered national sovereignty piece by piece by signing one military agreement after another. The most recent Status of Visiting Forces Agreement with Canada and the formation of the US “Task Force Philippines” represent nothing less than the wholesale subordination of the country to US military control. In exchange for US protection and patronage, Marcos Jr has transformed the archipelago into a forward base of US imperialist war, placing the Filipino people directly in harm’s way as the US continues to provoke China into an impending hot war.

The incompetence of the Marcos Jr regime is equally exposed by the devastation caused by consecutive typhoons and earthquakes in recent months. Entire communities have been left in ruins while the government scrambles without coordination, urgency, or resources. Relief has been slow, insufficient, or altogether absent forcing ordinary Filipinos to fend for themselves while officials pose for cameras and trade accusations on national media. This deliberate abandonment of disaster-stricken communities exposes the Marcos Jr regime as utterly detached from the people and deepening in its isolation from the masses.

Meanwhile, the Dutertes are scrambling to exploit the chaos and regain lost ground. They rally their own political machinery, hoping that the people can again be fooled, but they badly miscalculate. Rodrigo Duterte remains detained despite the sham theatrics portraying him as a frail old man, a ploy meant to manufacture sympathy and obscure accountability. At the same time, the Dutertes are far from exempt in the unfolding corruption scandals. The stench of their thievery has likewise been exposed in the anomalous flood-control projects in Davao City under Paolo Duterte’s term as mayor between 2020 to 2022, revealing how deeply they, too, have dipped their hands into public coffers. With an ICC arrest warrant closing in on Bato dela Rosa and former allies breaking ranks, the Duterte camp is rapidly sinking into isolation.

In the midst of these scandals, the recent INC (Iglesia ni Cristo) mobilization emerged as a destabilization attempt driven largely by factions seeking leverage in the ruling-class crisis. While it reflects real anger among ordinary church members, trapos (traditional politicians) and local officials rushed to ride the wave out of fear of being tagged as complicit in corruption, while rival cliques maneuver to weaponize the protest for their own agenda. The people must refuse to let their outrage be hijacked by any reactionary faction, including the Duterte bloc. Instead, mass anger must be transformed into genuine people’s protest: one that fuels revolutionary struggle and pushes for revolutionary change of government, not the recycling of the same corrupt, puppet politicians.

In this intensifying rivalry among the reactionary cliques, US imperialism plays multiple pieces on the board. Beyond the Marcoses and the Dutertes, US imperialism continues to rely on its reserve horse, the Liberal-Akbayan coalition, to corral public opinion and redirect mass anger into safe parliamentary channels. They propagate the deceit that opposing Marcos will inevitably restore Duterte, thereby pressuring the people to cling to the very system that exploits them. This is a calculated ploy to keep the masses trapped within the bounds of reactionary politics and away from revolutionary struggle.

But the Filipino people are not condemned to choose merely between factions of their oppressors. The deepening crisis of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system only underscores that no faction of the ruling class can or will resolve the suffering of the people. The moment demands the necessity of waging the national democratic revolution, dismantling the machinery of the reactionary state, and establishing a people’s democratic government.

As conditions worsen amid spiraling poverty, landlessness, government neglect during times of disasters, the massive theft of public funds, and growing repression, more and more Filipinos are choosing the path of armed resistance. As the legal democratic mass movement surges, so too must the strength of the underground revolutionary forces. The New People’s Army must continue building widespread mass bases in the countryside, carrying out agrarian revolution, fighting for land, and dismantling the landlords’ stranglehold over the countryside. The only genuine path out of this political circus and the end of bureaucrat capitalism, is the advance and eventual victory of the national democratic revolution with a socialist perspective.

NDFP International Office | National Democratic Front Of The Philippines

November 27, 2025

Source : philippinerevolution.nu/statem…

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2025-11-29 04:37:03

Al-Quds Brigades Announce Ops. Targeting Occupation in West Bank Raids

The Al‑Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, announced that its fighters carried out a series of operations to repel incursions by the Zionist occupation forces into cities and towns across the occupied West Bank.

According to the Brigades, fighters from the Tubas Battalion engaged occupation forces storming the Wadi Tayasir axis, targeting a foot patrol with a homemade anti‑personnel explosive device. Confrontations continued as troops pushed into the city.

In Silat al‑Harithiya, resistance fighters confronted occupation forces across several axes, responding to ongoing raids with explosive charges and direct confrontations.

Military vehicles targeted in Tubas and Silat al‑Harithiya

The Al‑Quds Brigades detailed multiple successful strikes:

A Toufan land explosive device was detonated against a Zionist vehicle in the Al‑Ziyoud axis, and a Sijil guided explosive device struck an armored Namer vehicle in the Al‑Bir axis, achieving a direct hit.

Another Toufan explosive targeted a Namer armored vehicle in western Al‑Bir, inflicting confirmed casualties, and additional devices targeted the route of military reinforcements entering Al‑Ziyoud, disabling a vehicle.

The Brigades affirmed that their fighters confronted the storming forces with “appropriate weapons” across all involved axes.

It is worth noting that the Zionist army and the Shin Bet intelligence agency launched a large-scale operation in the northern West Bank two days ago. Palestinian Resistance factions condemned the operation, affirming that the Palestinian people will confront “with full strength and determination these crimes that the world continues to ignore.”

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2025-11-29 04:34:39

A Common Roof — Zapatistas

The pouring has to be done in one go. It can’t be done in parts because the roof will look bad. That’s when you have to pour a lot, but in an organized way. Pouring a roof is like dancing: everyone knows their place, what they have to do, and with whom. If it rains, then it’s all over. So you have to ask the most knowledgeable people, be alert, be ready. Then you say, “On such and such a day,” and the people gather, and the jobs are distributed. It’s done early, because otherwise the heat is unbearable and you end up like a fumigated cockroach. When it’s finished, we laugh and drink pozol. At lunch, we all gobbled up some beef. There’s no party outside, but there is one in our hearts. “It’s ours,” we think. And we know that it belongs to everyone and no one. An operating room is a place where those who know how to wield a knife remove the evil from you as if they were removing a bad thought. It takes time and leaves you a little messed up, but that’s life: which also takes time and leaves you messed up, but there are moments when the damage is already done. And there is no party outside, but there is one in our hearts. Construction is like fighting, you do it because you’re going to need it one day. You or yours, which doesn’t mean they’re your property, but rather your family, those close to you, your compañerxs.

Yes, we still need someone who knows about electricity to come, because they are going to have equipment that not everyone has. Single-phase, two-phase, three-phase, grounding, and I don’t know how many other things. We have ground, but you have to know about electricity because otherwise the equipment will break down and it will be useless. It’s like when the music stops at a dance, and you’re left with the cumbia unfinished. Imagine you’re having stomach surgery and the power goes out, and you’re left with your guts hanging out like an old bandana. That’s why the next thing we need is an electrician. We need to find one who’s willing to work for the community. Do electricians get sick too? They get sick, and they have needs too. So that’s what’s missing. And the windows and doors, because not just any windows or doors. Doctors? There’s already a team, so to speak, but more are sure to come. Because if you have a knife, a machete, a chainsaw, a drill, but there’s no one to open your stomach, then it’s useless, as we say here. And some doctors have already come to see. I didn’t show my face because what if the doctor sees me and wants to start practicing right away. And then, once again, there’s no special electricity. I’d better wait. But the roof is already there.

Yes, there are still many things missing, but it already has a roof, and a roof is important for life. That’s why the gods made the sky, so that the world would have its roof.

Yes, what’s missing is yet to come.

Hopefully they’ll make tamales. Yes, and hopefully they won’t be raw.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

The Captain
November 2025.

Original text published at Enlace Zapatista on November 26th, 2025.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.

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2025-11-29 05:51:28

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