Sison Reader Series Book 8: On the United Front

The Party often finds it necessary to explain that the national united front is mainly for promoting and advancing the revolutionary armed struggle because of the common notion that it is mainly or solely for carrying out all legal forms of struggle, including commonplace expression of political views, electoral competitions and peace negotiations. But in carrying out the people's democratic revolution, the Party wields the national united front as a weapon for strengthening the armed struggle by gaining political allies who can deliver arms to the NPA or can coordinate with the NPA in military operations.

Since 1986, it has been proven that the legal united front tactics can rouse a broad range of forces to converge against a fascist dictatorship and overthrow it. This would be proven again in the overthrow of the corrupt regime of Estrada in 2001. But it takes more than legal united front tactics and gigantic mass actions to overthrow the entire semicolonial and semifeudal system. If the Party and the Filipino people were to win total victory in the new democratic revolution, they would have to combine the armed struggle and the united front in advancing the people's army from the current of strategic defensive to the further stage of the strategic stalemate and further on to the strategic offensive.

Table of Contents:
1. Anticommunist Campaign of the US-Marcos Clique Brings About its further Isolation
2. Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Chauvinist United Front Gains Ground in Mindanao
3. Guide for Establishing the People’s Democratic Government
4. Unite to Overthrow the US-Marcos Dictatorship Manifesto of the Preparatory Commission of the National Democratic Front
5. Our Urgent Tasks
6. Elaboration on the Ten Point Program of the National Democratic Front
7. Message to the Kongreso ng Mamamayang Pilipino (KOMPIL)
8. Message to the Nationalist Alliance in Mindanao Convention
9. Message to the National Convention of the Muslim-Christian Alliance Nationwide
10. Onward with the Struggle for National Democracy: Unite to Dismantle the US-Marcos Dictatorship and Establish the Democratic Coalition Government
11. Our Allies and the Armed Resistance
12. The Opposition Must Prepare for any Eventuality
13. Message to Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN)
14. On the Legal Opposition
15. The People’s Alternative towards National Freedom and Democracy
16. The Significance of August 21
17. Message to the Conference on US Intervention and the Nationalist Response
18. Draft Program of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines
19. On the Dangers of Reformism
20. On Marcos and Aquino re CPP
21. New Situation and New Tasks
22. Nationalist Leadership in Manila in the 1970s
23. Towards a National and Democratic Constitution
24. People’s Participation in Nation Building: A Macro Perspective
25. Political Report at the Founding Congress of Partido ng Bayan
26. Philippine Currents and Prospects
27. Crisis and Revolution
28. The Continuing Struggle in the Philippines
29. Open Letter to BAYAN, KMU, KMP, GABRIELA, LFS, KADENA, ACT and the General Public
30. Requirements of the Revolutionary United Front
31. The People Will Oust the US-Arroyo Regime
32. Mass Movement Is the Key Factor for Ousting the Arroyo Regime
33. The Broad United Front of Patriotic Forces Is Determined to Mobilize the People Nationwide against Arroyo Regime
34. On the 8th National Congress of BAYAN
35. On Ninoy Aquino’s Relations with the CPP and NPA
36. Class Struggle Is the Key Link in Revolutionary Social Change
37. Celebrate the People’s Struggle
38. Support the Concerted Mass Actions in France
39. Forty Years of Philippine Society and Revolution
40. Strengthen Communist Parties in the Worsening Global Capitalist Crisis
41. Celebrate the Achievements of the League, Resolve to Further Advance the Struggle
42. Expand and Consolidate the Christians for National Liberation
43. On Ninoy, Marcos, Mao, Cory, P-Noy, Ara Mina and Lino Brocka
44. Build the United Front against Imperialism in Canada
45. The Need for United Front in the Filipino People’s Democratic Revolution
46. Celebrate the Historic Leadership of the Working Class in the Philippine Revolution
47. Advance the People’s Mass Struggles for National and Social Liberation
48. The New Democratic Revolution through Protracted People’s War
49. An Introduction to the Role of Activism in Relation to Philippine Development Issues
50. Foreword to Louie Jalandoni: Revolutionary
51. Philippine Revolutionary United Front Affirms Solidarity with Venezuelan People
52. On the Purpose and Cost of Armed Struggle
53. Build the Anti-Imperialist and Democratic Alliance in Senegal and the Whole of Africa
54. The People’s Democratic Government Has the Power of Taxation
55. Build the Broadest United Front to Strengthen the Organs of Political Power and the People’s Democratic Government
56. Role of Overseas BAYAN Chapters in the National Democratic Movement
57. On the United People’s SONA against Duterte’s SONA
58. Resist the Attacks, Persevere in Struggle
59. ILPS as United Front for Anti-Imperialist and Democratic Struggle
60. Expand and Intensify the Mass Movement within the Framework of a Broad United Front
61. Dissecting the Marcos and Duterte Regimes
62. The Struggle Against the Marcos Fascist Dictatorship
63. Peace in the Time of Pandemic: Prospects for Social Justice and Reforms
64. Unite and Fight for National Independence and Democracy against the Duterte Fascist Regime and Its Imperialist Masters
65. Marxism-Leninism: A Review Philippine History, Classes and Crisis, and United Front
66. On Duterte’s Friend-and-Foe Relationship with the Legal National Democratic Forces in 2016-2017
67. Keynote Speech to the Video Conference to Celebrate the 48th Anniversary of NDFP
68. Philippine Elections 2022: Concerns and Prospects
69. Expand and Intensify the Mass Movement Under the Framework of a Broad United Front
70. Postscript to A Commentary on the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
71. On the United Front
72. The Revolutionary Movement in the Philippines Today
73. On the Short-Term and Long-Term Prospects of the Struggle for National and Social Liberation
74. Message to Bayan-USA on the Cyber Launch of The People’s Democratic Revolution
75. Three Viewpoints on the 2022 Elections
76. On the Limitations of the Reactionary Elections
77. Rise and Advance
78. Communist Democracy in the Philippines