What is Kabataang Makabayan (KM)?

What is Kabataang Makabayan? Screengrab of a document recovered from a CPP-NPA-NDF hideout in Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija on September 2018. It describes what is Kabataang Makabayan (KM) and its objectives. (Source: Captured enemy-documents)

“The KM is the backbone of the underground movement in the Youth Sector, it is where the armed struggle starts to be introduced to the youth recruits. Because there are two underground components in the urban mass movement: the underground mass organization (UGMO), and the Party (CPP) recruitment. Essentially, the potential recruit is recruited twice. The UGMO is the backbone of urban mass movement. Ang point ko lang is very simple: hindi malaking problema ang pagkakaroon ng mga legal na mga aktibista na yan, ang nagiging problema dahil CPP ang nagtatayo ay CPP rin ang nag-iinfiltrate ang kanyang UGMO component at party leader kasi ang UGMO is the start of introduction to you to the armed struggle [My point is very simple: the problem is not about having activists but on having the CPP established organizations that are used as covers for their UGMOs which introduce members of their organization to armed struggle]. Hence, the Party-building is the recruit’s focused and deliberate consolidation to a deeper ideological component leading to armed struggle,” Victor revealed.

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