The history of the Revolutionary Workers Party-Philippines (RPM-P)

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May First Message of the Communist Party of the Philippines
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.