KARL MARX TUESDAYS

CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES

(REVISED FROM 1968)

By: Comrade Mark Cua

Article VII

Basic Party Organizations

Section 1 . The branch as basic Party organizations will be established wherever there for at least three party members to work together as a collective , according to place of residence , place of work and place of study . Party branch is assigned to factories , mines, plantations or haciendas , villages , schools, streets , offices and places of residence and each company 's army. If the above-mentioned areas are less than three members , the members of the Party are encased in the nearest basic Party organizations .

Section 2 . If in excess of fifteen members of a branch of the Party , the entire membership will be divided into groups of branches for the sake of safety , unless the branch is in the revolutionary base . Each group branch never miss ten members .

Section 3 . The most fundamental duty of the basic Party organizations are the toughest development of relations between the Party and the masses of the people .

The general responsibilities of the branch :

a. exercise of propaganda activities and organizations among the masses to implement a line of the Party and the policies and decisions of higher organs of the Party ;

b. Learn to mass their aspirations and demands , make timely reports to the higher organs of the Party , provide guidelines and participate in life - political, cultural economy and citizens .

c. collect the material and moral support for the armed struggle waged by the New People's Army ;

d. solicit new members of the Party and the Red fighters , collect dues of members of the Party , audit reports from members of the Party and protect the safety and discipline among Party members ;

e. integrate learning courses for members of the Party and distribute publications of the Party , and

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Section 4 . The branch meeting will be held even if only once a month . They will be attended only by the tree branch group if unstable place and no protection is difficult to attend all branch members .

a. The meetings of the branch shall elect the executive committee and secretariat ( secretary and deputy secretary ) branch and appoints the head of the group of branches . The term of office all this year .

b. The branch meeting will strengthen the application for joining the Party , receive and discuss the report of the committee members and branch , and decide on the work of the whole branch .

Section 5 . A Party member may belong to two branches and pay only one fee unless he authorized a senior committee of the Party . A member of the Party moving from one branch into another branch will take the permission of the committee of senior section to its source branch .