League of Filipino Students

Today the enemies of the people are sounding their fascist alarm – the death of our comrade is the first logical step towards the impending demise of the national democratic revolution.

But the revolution has persevered and remained resilient despite the rotten dictatorship’s attacks. In fact it has spread to different parts of the country from a small group of youth, workers, peasants and women revolutionaries since its historic re-establishment.

The revolution is now capable of launching different kinds of revolutionary attacks against the defenders of the semi-feudal, semi-colonial system, from protest movements in urban centers to revolutionary warfare in the countryside by the people’s army under the absolute leadership of the vanguard party.

It has also been able to implement its national democratic program in areas where it wields political power. These programs include the decreasing of usurious transactions against poor peasants, even to the extent of outright confiscation and redistribution of vast tracts of lands to the landless of our people.

In the next five years, the revolution is setting its sights towards inching closer to absolute victory by advancing the phase of revolutionary struggle towards that of a strategic stalemate, in which the revolutionary forces shall now be able to confront fully the military firepower of reactionary forces not only in the countryside but in the urban centers as well.

The protracted revolution is right on its track, and no amount of falsehoods nor fascist attacks by protectors of the rotten system can reverse the historic inevitability of the people’s ultimate triumph.

It is this revolution that Kimay fully embraced, and she shall be honored alongside all our heroes and martyrs, all of whom fully understood their historic role in the liberation our people not only from the ravages of imperialism but also towards the establishment of a society and world where the oppression and exploitation of humans by humans shall be ended.

Kimay waged revolution at its highest, finest form – as a revolutionary guerilla in the embrace of landless peasants and exploited people. As with all guerilla fronts, she had been staunchly resisting and defending our people from fascist advances in protecting foreign and landed interests in the heartlands of Mindanao. It is in this defense that she had been felled by fascist bullets.

The fascists are now parading Kimay as a dire warning to all youth and students from embracing the path of armed revolution, even legal militant struggle through mass organizations such as ours.

But the story of our revolution is replete with instances where we have never been shackled by the threat of terror nor death, because we know with utmost conviction the justness of our cause and the inevitable historical result of our struggle.

The fascists have been mistaken all along. The death of a comrade is not the first step towards the demise of the national democratic revolution. In truth, history has shown the reverse – it hastens the demise of a rotting ruling system by inspiring more men and women to embrace the revolutionary cause.

Today a grateful student movement and people shall deaden the alarm bells of fascist hordes by honoring you, Kemberley “Kimay” Jul Luna, for advancing the national democratic revolution in its highest form.

As you yourself have followed the revolutionary tradition of Edgar Jopson, Emmanuel Lacaba, Lorena Barros, student leaders and revolutionaries all – we are certain that thousands more shall stand in line to continue your work and deliver the final death blow to  the enemies of our long oppressed and exploited people.