Remembering Horacio "Boy" Morales, Jr.

 

 

 

March 19,  2012

 

■   In Honor of Horacio "Boy" Morales, Jr.  by Prof. Jose Maria Sison

 

■   In Revolutionary Memory of Horacio “Ka Boy” Morales by Alan Jazmines

 

■   L.A.B. Salutes the Defection of Marcos Technocrat to the NDF by AGHAM BAYAN, 1978

 

■   Filipino Official Defects by AGHAM BAYAN, 1978

 

■   Statement of Horacio Morales, Jr., 1977 TOYM Awardee and Executive VP of DAP

 

■   Statement of the National Demoractic Front on the Defection of Horacio Morales, Jr.

 

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IN HONOR OF HORACIO “BOY” R. MORALES, Jr.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman,Communist Party of the Philippines
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
17 March 2012

By way of honoring Horacio “Boy” Morales, I wish to recall his relations with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and the New People’s Army and his contributions to the revolutionary movement within the range of my personal knowledge and on the basis of reports of comrades.

The first time I became aware of Boy’s connections to the revolutionary movement was in 1975 when he sent to me a letter through Jimmy S., a staffer of the CPP National Liaison Committee (NLC). His letter proposed certain kinds of projects that could be undertaken to improve the people’s livelihood and advance the revolution.

Jimmy S. also informed me that Boy was being developed to become a member of the CPP by certain comrades in the Development Academy of the Philippines, that he knew and encouraged the formation of NDF cells and the recruitment of CPP members in the DAP and allowed the use of DAP vehicles and facilities by the NDF, CPP and NLC.

Before I became aware of Boy’s involvement in the revolutionary movement, I had always thought of him as a key member of the so-called Paeng Salas’ boys. His first letter to me was followed by another one with a copy of the so-called Countryside Development, which had been prepared by Sixto Roxas. He wrote to me that the CPP could probably improve the plan and use it.

My communications with Boy ceased in 1976. But I continued to monitor what he and others were doing in DAP through Jimmy S. and other comrades.

When I was in prison, I learned that Boy had dramatically defected to the revolutionary movement on the very night that he was to receive the TOYM award. The news raised my spirit. I was proud of what he did.

The account of Alan Jazmines covers well the initiation of Boy into the life of the New People’s Army and the people in the countryside and his eventual assignment to the NDF. It was while working for the NDF that Boy was arrested and detained.

After the downfall of the Marcos fascist dictatorship in 1986, Boy joined me in the Preparatory Commission of the Partido ng Bayan. We met and talked many times. We were often in the same forums, seminars and conferences. Boy helped in establishing the Partido ng Bayan. He subsequently ran as one of its senatorial candidates.

In connection with his work in PRRM and other engagements, he made frequent trips to The Netherlands from 1988 onwards. Thus, we had several opportunities of discussing the Philippine situation and what is to be done, especially in the legal mass movement and in the field of socio-economic development. He was always receptive to advice on projects beneficial to the people.

Rep. Jose V. Yap brought Boy along in meetings to explore the holding of peace negotiations between the Manila government and the NDF from 1989 onwards. Boy was around to help the delegation of the Ramos government when The Hague Joint Declaration, the framework agreement for peace negotiations, was negotiated and signed in 1992. When Howard Dee became chairman of the GRP negotiating panel in 1994, he diminished the possibility for Boy to help in the peace negotiations.

Boy was always willing to help the patriotic and progressive forces even when he increased his work for certain bourgeois presidential candidates and even when he became Secretary of Agrarian Reform under the Estrada administration. He was one of two major government officials who encouraged Estrada to do what Ramos had failed to do, sign the Comprehensive Agreement for Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in 1998.

Boy was never arrogant towards anyone in the revolutionary movement even when he held his high position in government. He was approachable and helpful. After Estrada fell, he continued to be in touch with me and arranged my dialogues with certain personages. I am told that he cooperated enthusiastically with the progressive forces in opposing and isolating the Arroyo regime and seeking its ouster.

Boy had a high capacity for achievement and expressed his political views clearly, honestly and modestly. Even when he had views different from those of the revolutionary forces, he never sought to impose his views on the whole or any part of the revolutionary movement and certainly he never attacked the movement for not accepting his views on certain issues. He was ever ready to find a common ground and contribute what he could to the revolutionary movement. ###

 
     
     
           
     
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In Revolutionary Memory of Horacio “Ka Boy” Morales
Alan Jazmines
Consultant
NDF-National Democratic Front of the Philippines
March 06, 2012

To Bel and the family and loved ones of Horacio “Ka Boy” Morales, his fellow fighters, friends and colleagues:

I, and others who were Ka Boy’s fellow comrades-in-arms and fellow fighters in the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF) extend our deep and heartfelt condolences at his demise.

We honor Ka Boy for devotedly having served the national democratic revolutionary movement in our country for a long time — starting from where he was stil l a ranking government official (as Executive Vice-President of the Development Academy of the Philippines), when he openly defected to the national democratic revolutionary movement on the very night he was to receive the award as one of the Ten Outstandi ng Young Men (TOYM) in the Philippines in December 1977, and when for several years he lived the life of a revolutionary fighter in the New People’s Army and became a leading cadre of the NDF.

Even before his open defection, when he was still active in the reactionary government’s bureaucracy, NDF comrades who were in touch with him saw in him a very high and fast rising enthusiasm in the national democratic revolutionary movement as he learned more and more about its cause and the basic changes it has been fighting for to replace the rotten reactionary government, state and social system he was still serving.

He was not only very much against the open fascist rule then heavily oppressing the people, but also and more basically he was against the semi-colonial and semi-feudal rule that has been keeping the country subjugated and backward, and its people exploited, oppressed, poor and miserable. High up the ladder of the rotten government and behind his cool and apparently unperturbed demeanor, he deeply felt the people’s sufferings and wanted to do all he could to help them in their fight.

He was fully convinced of the national democratic revolutionary line, strategy and program — the genuine national liberation, economic progress, social upliftment and a real bright future for the country and people can only be achieved by radically replacing the prevailing rotten, parasitical and oppressive government, state and social system with one that will be truly free, just, democratic, pro-progress and pro-people.

Even when he was still at the DAP, he had already secretly organized five active NDF groups right in the DAP, and three other groups in other agencies of the government. As a pleasant surprise, I learned later that at least one of my business management students at the Asian Institute of Management way back in 1974 was one of those he was recruiting into the national democratic revolutionary movement. Ka Boy also often arranged for the use of government facilities in support of NDF activities. He also organized arrangements for the solicitation and sending of support to NDF organizers and fighters in the field, including arms and other material needs.

He was, however, not content with working for the national democratic revolutionary movement at just those levels. The very night he was to be awarded TOYM recognition, he openly defected — leaving only a statement to be read for him by his mother about why he defected — and went straight to a consolidated area of the NDF in the countryside. I had the honor of directly assisting in his defection, personally accompanying him to a stable NDF base and making arrangements for his integration and safety.

In his decision to immerse with the people and serve them in the best way he could for their sake and future, he sacrificed a lot, including normal family life. Even if he was quiet about it, he missed his children, and it was not very easy for him. He was confident, however, they would later understand.

For a long time, he was based in one of the consolidated areas of authority of the people’s revolutionary government under the protection of the New Peoples’ Army and auspices of the NDF in Central Luzon. Living and working with the downtrodden, he learned more concretely and more deeply about their sufferings and the political-socio-economic-cultural causes of these historically embedded injustices in the prevailing rotten system, and became even determined to fight side by side with them for decisive fundamental changes in the government, state and social system prevailing in the country.

When he was later placed in the NDF’s National Secretariat, arrangements were made so that he and his fellow secretariat members, consultants and other personnel could safely travel, meet and consult with others the NDF needed to confer with in various regions in the country.

He was arrested and imprisoned by the Marcos martial law regime in 1982 and regained freedom after the People Power uprising in 1986.

Even as he later turned to other immediate concerns since then, he had always maintained basic sympathy with the national democratic revolutionary movement, had kept in touch with contacts in the NDF and, in a number of times, served as an informal bridge in alliance work and peace efforts.

Some, who are just learning now about it, would probably be surprised at how deep Ka Boy had become committed and directly involved in the national democratic revolutionary movement. It bears serious thought.

There have been others and there will be many more like him as the national democratic revolutionary movement advances.

We will not forget all that Ka Boy has done and fought for in furtherance of the movement and in the interest of the Filipino people.

ALAN JAZMINES detained NDF Consultant PNP Custodial Center, Camp Crame 6 March 2012
 
     
     
           
     
     
           

 


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