KARL MARX TUESDAYS

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES

(REVISED FROM 1968 VERSION)

By: Comrade Mark Cua

Article V

The Central Organization

Section 1 . The Central Committee will be held every five years , unless deemed necessary to undertake it after or before the appointed time . If the majority of the regional Party committee formally ask Congress to undertake , give in to the request of the Central Committee .

The announcement on keeping the Central Committee Congress will do at least a month before they undertake . The number of delegates and the method of electing them of lower Party organizations or selecting them with the lower organs of the Party Central Committee determined .

Section 2 . The duties and powers of the National Congress are as follows :

a. Discuss , confirm , amend or re- evaluate the program and the Constitution;

b. Decide the political line of the Party ;

c. Elected members and candidate members of the Central Committee and other central organs after decide the appropriate size of the membership in each organ ;

d. Receive , discuss and confirm the report of the Central Committee and other central organs , and

create if necessary the central organs besides the organs established .

Section 3 . Between the Central Committee presides over the entire work of the Party , implement the decisions of the National Congress , make current decisions and solve the current problems , establish the organs of the Party and lead their activities , initiate and distributor of Party cadres and prompt paying attention to the claims of the lower organizations and individual members in cases pertaining to disciplinary action .

Section 4 . The Central Committee , in its plenum , will elect the Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau , the Secretariat of the Central Committee and chairman of its second , the general secretary and other secretaries of the Central Committee .

a. The Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, including its Executive Committee , the shouldering of duties and powers of the Central Committee plenum in between .

b. The Secretariat of the Central Committee govern the administration and day-to- day activities of the leadership of the Party Political Bureau .

c. The number of members and candidate members of the Political Bureau , the Secretariat and the Executive Committee will be determined by the Central Committee . If there is a vacancy , it is usually filled by the candidate members .

Section 5 . The Central Committee shall elect and have , as its special organs , the Military Commission , the high schools, Universities and Colleges of the Parties ( the Revolutionary Mao Tsetung Thought School ) and central publications , in addition to the Secretariat and the departments of the organization and education thereof .

Section 6 . The plenum of the Central Committee of the Political Bureau called once every six months . However , the Political Bureau or the majority of the members of the Central Committee may decide to undertake it in advance or after the appointed time . The members and candidate members of the Central Committee attend the plenum but the candidate members , although there is freedom of speech , yet there is  right to vote.

Section 7 . All members and candidate members, Political Bureau, Secretariat, and General Secretary must not have not any religious affiliations or what so ever nor receive any favour from any organization religious or not.