KARL MARX TUESDAYS

CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES 

(REVISED FROM THE 1968 VERSION)

By: Comrade Mark Cua

Article IX

The Relationship of the Parties to the New People's Army

Section 1 . Party , through its Military Commission under the Central Committee and by its cadres at every level, and be guided, and lead the New People's Army in the concrete practice of Marxism - Leninism -Mao Tsetung Thought and magpapaunlad of the most advanced fighters to become members of the Party .

Section 2 . The Rules of the New People's Army acknowledge the absolute leadership of the Party and its Military Commission and set the assignment of political leaders in every armed unit of the New People's Army .

Section 3 . The New People's Army will be the main weapon of the Party 's democratic revolution and the socialist stage next . Full durability are joined its basic alliance of the working class and the peasantry . In the countryside , it will create an independent regime through armed struggle , agrarian revolution and rural bases .

Section 4 . A Party branch in each company and a group of Parties in each squad is established within the New People's Army . The governing committee elected from the branch level to the highest military formations .

Section 5 . The New People's Army will formulate three main forms of armed forces : the regular forces moved , guerrilla units and militia units or self- defense . It will be forces in the struggle , propaganda and production .

Section 6 . Prosper Party closest correlation between the army and the people , the Party and the army , and the officers and soldiers on the revolutionary proletarian spirit .

Section 7 . Strictly follow the New People's Army The Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Things to Remember :

The Three Main Rules of Discipline are :

a. Comply with the law in all your actions and of Moral Virtues.

b. Do not take or steal even a needle or fiber yarn from the masses .

c. To turnover of all seized except those needed in the fight for liberation like guns, ammunitions, and others armaments.

Section 8. The Eight Things to note are :

a. Be polite speech .

b. Pay the appropriate amount of your buy .

c. Return all your borrowed .

d. Do not injure or vilify people(unless it is within bounce of reason)

e. Do not destroy the crops .

f. Do not victimize or rape women .

g. Do not be cruel to the prisoners .