CPP’s Strategic Urban Rebuild

The recent CPP-led mass protest actions were never meant to seize political power because the CPP simply cannot do so under its current organizational and military capabilities. Genuine power seizure requires a critical mass: a broad and sustained support base numbering in the tens of millions, a disciplined Party membership reaching at least a million, and an armed strength of roughly a hundred thousand.

The CPP is nowhere near these benchmarks. What it fielded instead were limited protest contingents, recycled urban-based cadres, and new recruits unfamiliar with the deep, patient organizing required to build a genuine mass movement with a dwindling remnant of its armed strength.

What the CPP is actually pursuing is not immediate political takeover but the slow rebuilding of its urban mass base. Its objective is to quietly regain lost ground, expand underground mass organizations, recruit new Party members, and reinforce NPA units weakened over the years. The intensified political turmoil and escalating contradictions among elite political blocs provide the CPP with a convenient opening. While traditional political forces engage in internal conflicts, the CPP is positioning itself to recover, expand, and consolidate its ranks.

This long-term strategy points toward the CPP’s clear political horizons. One of which is the 2028 elections. By taking advantage of present instability, amplifying public dissatisfaction, and inserting itself into fragmented protest narratives, the CPP is attempting to rebuild the mass movement it has long lost and prepare the conditions for relevance and leverage in the next major political cycle.

Given this direction, expect more protest actions organized by the CPP through its aboveground and legal front organizations. These mobilizations will be framed as broad democratic expressions of dissent, but at their core, they serve the strategic objective of expanding the CPP’s influence and recruitment pipeline. The public, especially the youth, must be vigilant. They should not be swayed by propaganda designed to romanticize the CPP, obscure its true objectives, or lure them into underground organizations and armed struggle.

The ongoing political turmoil is fertile ground for manipulation. Citizens must remain discerning, critical, and aware of the ideological agendas operating behind seemingly spontaneous mass actions.