Neglect and other shortcomings in planning and guidance by the Party of mass work and the mass movement must be rectified resolutely and thoroughly. 3. We must intensify the people's war and accelerate efforts to fulfill the plan to advance from the strategic defensive to the strategic stalemate. We must carry out the tactical offensives to deliver lethal blows to the enemy, increase our NPA fighting units, carry out land reform, build mass organizations and organs of political power and create new guerrilla fronts. We must encourage workers and the educated youth to join the people's army or render rural service. We must redeploy some cadres and weapons from one region to another in the communist spirit of the relatively stronger helping the relatively weaker. We must recognize the uneven development of our revolutionary forces and decide how the stronger forces in a region help weaker ones in other regions.
Patuloy na baluktot na nakikita ng US at iba pang imperyalistang kapangyarihan (laluna na yaong nasa NATO) sa pandaigdigang krisis ng kapitalismo ang pangangailangang pasiglahin ang kanilang mga ekonomya sa pamamagitan ng pagpapalaki ng produksyong militar, gamitin ito para maglunsad ng agresyon upang ibagsak ang mga rehimeng naggigiit ng pambansang kalayaan at magpalawak ng pang-ekonomyang teritoryo nila.