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| Source: Captured enemy-documents |
Some of the functions of White Areas can be observed in
Victor’s story as a youth leader. White Areas, as noted in SOT-
WA (2006), “harbor a large concentration of middle forces,
sectoral organizations, and various cause-oriented groups” that
make the CPP’s activities easier. Middle forces are composed of
youth and students, professionals and semi-professionals from
the academe, religious, legal, health, media, education, and
other sectors. The ambivalence of those included in the middle
forces makes it an urgent task of the Party to win them to the
side of the workers and the peasantry.
As seen in the experience of Victor, White Areas are
bountiful sources of potential cadres. The CPP sees the value
of the working class, though only 15% of the population, as the
most progressive, political, and productive force (SOT-WA,
2006). Recruits here can be dispatched to the countryside as
political officers of the NPA to train.
“The White Area is a complicated process that’s been
an enigma for the government and the ordinary people to
understand. The White Area is why we can recruit from different
sectors – in schools, in the church, in the offices, even inside
government. Imagine, we have CPP units inside government
agencies,” Victor said.
--THE WARS WITHIN (2020/Copy&Share)
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