Message to the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930)
We wish you a successful Party Congress and progress in the anti-war and peace movement!
October 10, 2023
Standing Steering Committee of SHISO-UNDO
The Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930), with which we have friendly relations for manyyears, will hold the 16th Party Congress on November 7. This date coincides with the 106th anniversaryof the October Socialist Revolution and the 93rd anniversary of the establishment of the Communist
Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930).
What written here is the solidarity message from the Standing Steering Committee, Activist GroupShisō-Undō, to the 16th Party Congress, upon request, to express the internationalist solidarity.
(Editorial office)October 10, 2023
Eduardo F. Landayan
General Secretary
The Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP-1930)

Message to the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930)
We wish you a successful Party Congress and progress in the anti-war and peace movement!
Dear Comrades and Delegates to the 16th Party Congress:
The Activist Group Shiso-Undo, Japanese activist group which follows Marxism-Leninism as aguideline for actions, sends you our heartfelt greetings of solidarity, with respect and gratitude to yourparty. We were also very encouraged to receive a message from Eduardo Landayan, a few months ago,
in which he valued our English edition of “Shiso-Undo” as “the best source of information”. We would
like to thank him once again.
Shiso-Undo extends our hearty greetings of comradely solidarity from Japan to your party and themass organizations that support and act together from the domestic basis in the struggles against theUS imperialist monopoly capital, which is striving to gain profit by organizing the struggle against its
own imperialism, in opposition to the Philippine government’s attempt to enter the war between Russiaand Ukraine (with NATO, the US and EU in its background).
This war invites a crisis in the East Asian region where the blood of working peoples is about to bespilled once again by war. It has been pointed out that U.S. imperialism could turn the Philippines into
the next “Ukraine” by using it as a proxy war against China. The current Philippine administration,
usurped by the son of former President Marcos, who once ran a long-term pro-US military dictatorship,announced in March this year the expansion of the US right to use military bases and is hurrying tostrengthen military cooperation with US imperialism. On the other hand, in the South China Sea, theU.S. imperialists are propagating the “maritime aggression” of China with a view to the “Taiwancontingency”. In March this year, the US imperialists dispatched Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary ofState, one of the prime movers behind the current war in Ukraine, to the Philippines to meet withPhilippine government officials in an effort to strengthen military alliance and expand the US militarypresence in the Philippines.
Your Party, celebrating its ninety-third anniversary of establishment, organized the struggle of
Hukbalahap against the military occupation by the Japanese imperialists during World War II andfought the anti-base struggle against the military occupation of the U.S. imperialists after the war. As

one of the fruits of the great struggles, the Philippine Congress won a glorious victory on September 16,
1999, when it decided to end the military base agreement and return the U.S. military bases to thePhilippines. The removal of the U.S. military base, which had been a base for suppressing the Filipino
people’s struggle for independence for many years, is vividly remembered by the Japanese people as agreat victory of the working people’s struggle. Since then, the U.S. imperialists, who have suffered apainful defeat, have been promoting de facto return of the military base, but your party has been
persistently fighting to stop this plot.
In contrast, in Japan, there are approximately 56,000 U.S. soldiers and more than 100 U.S. militarybases, which are not subject to Japanese sovereignty under the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement,
still scattered all over the country with a concentration in Okinawa. Furthermore, the Japanese
government monopoly is taking advantage of the situation in Ukraine to fix and expand U.S. militarybases, double its military spending and purchase large quantities of U.S. weapons, and develop amodern version of imperialist hegemony diplomacy in the name of a “free and open Indo-Pacific strategy”
to increase its military presence not only in the East China Sea but also in the South China Sea in thePhilippine Sea region. In August of this year, Japan’s vice prime minister ASO Taro made a statement
in Taiwan justifying Japanese military intervention in the event of a “Taiwan contingency” by inciting
hatred toward China, and he made no attempt to hide his blatantly imperialistic intentions. Like thePhilippines, Taiwan and Japan themselves are in danger of becoming a second “Ukraine”.
Our struggle in Japan has been extremely difficult. However, learning from the history and spirit ofyour party’s 93-year struggle, symbolized by the glorious victory of the anti-base struggle, we aredetermined to confront U.S. and Japanese imperialism on Japanese soil, achieve the seizure of powerby the working class, replace the capitalist system with a socialist one, and stand for the creation of apeaceful world full of the spirit of international solidarity in which the working people are theprotagonists. We are determined to take a stand for the creation of a peaceful world where the working
people are the protagonists, replacing the capitalist system with socialism and the spirit of international
solidarity.
We extend our solidarity by expressing our confidence that the 16th Congress of the Communist Partyof the Philippines (PKP-1930) will achieve its desired objectives and contribute to the advancement ofthe class struggle in your country and in the world.
In Solidarity,
Standing Steering Committee of SHISO-UNDO