The CPP-NPA-NDFP by nature is anti-development
- Word on the Street
- Oct 5
- 1 min read
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Once again, the CPP-NPA-NDF fronts in Congress are moving heaven and earth to block the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), particularly for the flagship Barangay Development Program (BDP).
Their opposition is not merely out of political dislike for the task force. The truth is more strategic and sinister: the Barangay Development Fund directly empowers the very communities where the communist movement has long thrived—those in Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDAs).
These are the same communities the CPP-NPA-NDFP depends on for recruitment, mass support, and guerrilla base building. By bringing roads, schools, water systems, and livelihood projects to these once-neglected barangays, the NTF-ELCAC dismantles the poverty and isolation that the insurgency feeds on.
Make no mistake: the CPP-NPA-NDF does not want development in these areas. Their revolutionary cause survives on poverty, discontent, and hopelessness. Once these communities become self-reliant, educated, and connected to the mainstream of progress, the insurgents lose their breeding ground.
Poverty and underdevelopment are the foundation of their so-called “people’s war.” This is their casus belli or their justification for rebellion. And if the government succeeds in transforming these communities, that justification collapses.
In truth, a developed and peaceful countryside renders them irrelevant. That is why, year after year, they desperately seek to defund and discredit NTF-ELCAC. Because every road built, every livelihood started, and every child who dreams beyond the mountains is a defeat to their cause.
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