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For a Just and Enduring Peace: Keeping Faith with the Peoples of the Philippines

April 24th marks the founding of the National Democra% Front of the Philippines (NDF). On that day seventeen years ago, an alliance of individuals and revolutionary organizations committed itself to the creation of a just and enduring peace based on solidarity and justice, equity, and freedom and genuine sovereignty, for the peoples of the Philippines. The NDF developed in the 1970s out of three distinct movements that were then converging: the open legaI peoples' movement that emerged in the 1960s and was illegalized by the imposition of martial law in 1972, the armed guerrilla movement, especially in the rural areas, and the socialist and communist movement of the late 1960s. Undeniably the largest organized force in the progressive movement in the Philippines, the NDF, now numbering fourteen organizations, draws from progressive Christians and church people, youth, professionals (teachers, artists and writers, lawyers, scientists, health care professionals) , urban poor, labor, peasants, Bangsa'Moro, Cordillera and other indigenous peoples, women emancipationists, socialists, communists, and other Filipino nationalists. This year is especially significant in the history of the NDF. We believe we are entering a new era not only in the struggles of our people, but in the life of the Front. For if the 1970s was the era of struggle and founding, and the 1980s was the era of struggle and confrontation, then the 1990s will be the era of struggle and governance. We believe the conditions now exist for such a comprehensive framework. We recognize that those who, in the past seventeen years, have dared