China’s 40% ownership of the Philippine’s national electric grid system was a hot topic in the Senate recently. Senators said it is dangerous for a service with national security importance to be in the hands of a foreign entity. However, in contrast to how much they were “concerned” with foreign control of power transmission, they […]

Peasants from Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog under the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and other peasant groups denounced the inutility of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) on its 35th anniversary on June 10. They marched along the streets of Manila to pound the Marcos regime for the law’s broken promises and its inaction amid […]

At the onset of 2023, Masbate farmers faced intensified land grabbing by the province’s big ranchers, bourgeois compradors and bureaucrat-capitalists. Among them are old and new cronies of the Marcos family. Masbate Governor Antonio T. Kho evicted peasants from Rantso Pecson’s 550-hectare land in Cawayan town. Even nearby private lands were not spared from the […]

The reactionary military and state defiled the tampuda, a sacred ritual of the indigenous Higaonon people, to falsely portray “Lumad unity” and smokescreen its scheme allowing expansion of foreign plantation and mining. On May 12, the 402nd IBde spearheaded a fake tampuda to “reconcile” the Namatindong clan of Esperanza, Agusan del Sur and the Manhumusay-Pinakitob […]

Soldiers of the 94th IB massacred a family, including two children, on the evening of June 14 in Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. Soldiers fatally shot 50-year old Emilda Fausto and her children Raben Fausto, 11, and Ben Fausto, 15, in their sleep. The family’s father Roly Fausto, 52, was found dead outside of […]

Kapatid, a group of families of political prisoners, reiterated its call for the release of Gerardo dela Peñtilde, 84, the oldest of 824 political prisoners currently incarcerated in different parts of the country. The groups said it has been pushing for dela Peña’s release since 2019 but no action has since been taken by the […]

For more than a year now, Ka Daisy, a transwoman, has served as full-time Red fighter. She joined the New People’s Army (NPA) during the pandemic, three years after doing revolutionary work as a member of the Kabataang Makabayan. She recounted how her unit got engaged in an armed encounter on her second day in […]

Ang Bayan (“The People”) is the official publication of the Communist Party of the Philippines, guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. It is published by the Central Committee. AB comes out fortnightly every 7th and 21st of each month. The original Pilipino edition is translated into English, Bisaya, Waray, Hiligaynon and Iloco.

In commemorating the recent 125th year of the declaration of false Philippine independence, let us look back to the Filipino people’s more than a century history of resistance to colonialism and semicolonialism and reaffirm our commitment to struggle for genuine freedom and democracy. The declaration of freedom “under the protection of Powerful and Humanitarian Nation, […]