I’m glad you’re alive. I saw a picture of you on one PNA article; no haircut, new eyeglasses (I hope), and a raised eyebrow that ironically contrasted with your bright smile. Maybe that smile was your way of thanking the soldiers who managed to save your life. Or perhaps it’s a ruse for them to […]

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.

The Filipino people’s struggle has entered a new phase as Ferdinand Marcos Jr takes his place as the new head of the neocolonial state. The people and their patriotic and democratic forces face a great challenge to strengthen the unity of the people and to advance their struggles. Like his father dictator and predecessors, Marcos […]

The intensifying international capitalist crisis causing grave hardships on the toiling people has caused global social unrest. Massive protest actions by unions and democratic organizations demanding higher wages, oil price rollbacks and economic rights and demands have erupted and is engulfing the world. 
Latin America’s Paro Nacional The 18-day Paro Nacional (national strike) led by […]

Media suppression went into full swing on days leading to Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s inauguration to Malacañang. On June 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission upheld its 2018 decision to shutdown news site Rappler. Earlier, the National Task Force-Elcac ordered telecommunications companies to block 28 websites, including the website of the Communist Party of the Philippines […]

The New People’s Army (NPA)-Sultan Kudarat mounted four armed offensives from June 15 to June 29 against operating police and military units. The NPA lobbed a grenade and fired at a counterinsurgency unit of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) operating in Sitio Meleb, Barangay Butril, Palimbang on June 29. Five policemen were […]

The inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr as president was met with protests across the country. In Metro Manila, progressive groups assembled in Plaza Miranda, in Quiapo, where they expressed their rejection of the Marcos regime, its distortion of history, and called for justice for the victims of his father’s martial law regime. They also raised […]

In his inauguration as president last June 30, Marcos said that he will prioritize addressing the food crisis. He claimed that it was only during his father’s dictatorship that food security was given attention—as if to rub salt on the peasant masses’ unhealed wounds. What really happened under Marcos Sr? It is relevant for the […]

Several hundred delegates of the national-democratic LGBTQ+ group Bahaghari participated in the Pride protests in Pasay City and Quezon City last June 25 and 28. They demanded that the Duterte regime be held accountable and called for resistance against the incoming illegitimate Marcos II regime. They were part of at least 55,000 participants to the […]