Department of National Defense Sec. Gilberto Teodoro again demonstrated his bloodthirsty and anti-peace character when he outrightly rejected the proposals of former peace negotiators of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) to reopen negotiations. The latter forwarded this following the bloody massacre of the Toboso 19 in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental. […]

Combined forces of the police, its special units, and the 79th IB arrested five individuals on the night of April 22 in Talisay City, Negros Occidental. State forces accuse them of being Red fighters of the New People’s Army (NPA) who allegedly escaped the bloody massacre in Toboso on April 19. State forces claim they […]

The 8th ID soldiers deliberately killed three New People’s Army (BHB)-Western Samar (Arnulfo Ortiz Command) hors de combat fighters in Samar in April. On April 17, soldiers wilfully killed Ka John Paul in Barangay Salvacion, Jiabong. They first shot him and hit his thigh, rendering him no longer in a condition to fight. Instead of […]

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and its allied organizations are intensifying efforts to expand and deepen their grounding among the Filipino masses, both in urban and rural areas. The NDFP’s activities surged strongly after the revolutionary movement launched a rectification movement in December 2023. On its 53rd anniversary, the NDFP affirms its […]

  Rural mass work conference. Dozens of organizers from the ranks of peasants, fisherfolk, semi-proletariat, women, youth, and artists attended the conference on rural mass work in an undisclosed location in April. Led by PKM (Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid, or National Peasant Alliance), they discussed the documents Step-by-step Organizing and Building Organs of Political […]

The Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions (RCTU), an allied organization of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, on May 1 called on the Filipino working class to take up the historic task of leading the people’s democratic revolution to liberate the country from US imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism. The group emphasized the importance […]

More than 30,000 Filipinos took to the streets nationwide and overseas in protests and actions on May 1, International Workers’ Day. They militantly asserted their demand for wage increases, lower prices of oil and basic commodities, and an end to the US-Israel war of aggression against Iran. Thousands of workers and toiling people in Manila […]

Balikatan becomes more dangerous every year to the Filipino people. On May 5, the US launched a Tomahawk missile from the civilian airport in Tacloban City using the Typhon Mid-Range Capability missile system. The Tomahawk missile flew for 48 minutes over a distance of 640 kilometers toward its target in Laur, Nueva Ecija. The Tomahawk […]

On April 16, the Philippines signed the Pax Silica declaration, a US-led alliance that aims to interconnect the supply chain of critical minerals for its military. Pax Silica was formed in December 2025 as a coalition of 13 countries to “develop cooperation” in the mining of critical minerals and rare earths for the US from […]