Group to UP freshmen: Do not join CPP-NPA-NDF

THE Liga Independencia Pilipinas (LIP) on Sunday urged incoming freshmen of the University of the Philippines (UP) to be discriminating in choosing groups and organizations in school.

It warned new students against joining groups affiliated with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).

The university released the list of those who passed the admissions evaluation last Thursday, July 15.

“We strongly advise the new crop of Iskolar ng Bayan students to be extremely careful in joining organizations of their campuses that are facades of the CPP-NPANDF,” LIP Secretary General Jose Antonio Goitia said in a statement.

He warned members of these groups may conduct individual or group campaigns to explain their advocacies as part of schemes encouraging student participation.

They may also offer friendship and counsel to reel students in, he said.

The LIP said once students joined such groups, the communist ideology and the armed struggle against the government will be gradually inculcated through underground meetings, rallies, and consultations.

The group warned these organizations may attempt to convince students armed conflict is the only solution to the country’s problems.

Students who enlist in the violent cause may be sent to the countryside to join the immersion program before they are given weapons and trained to fight government troops.

Goitia also called on university officials to put an end to the recruitment of frontline CPP-NPA-NDF organizations inside UP campuses.

“The University of the Philippines is funded by the people’s taxes, and as such, it bears the obligation of upholding the nation’s sovereign will. On the thin pretense of academic freedom, it is treasonous to support and turn a blind eye to the on-campus recruiting of our youth, who are the hope of our Motherland,” he said.