GRP President Duterte is raising the Filipino people’s clamor for the return of the Balangiga bells but only for self-serving purposes: First, this is meant as countermove against calls by some sectors in the US to investigate violations of human rights in Duterte’s drug war. Secondly, he wants to use the Balangiga bells as a […]
The New People’s Army (NPA) congratulates its units across the nation for carrying out successive tactical offensives throughout the Philippine archipelago. Over the past several days, NPA units have carried out at least ten successive and successful tactical offensives: in Ilocos Sur and Cagayan Valley in Northern Luzon, in Quezon province in Southern Luzon; in […]
Sa ngalan ng buong New People’s Army, nais kong batiin ang iba’t ibang kumand at yunit ng NPA sa paglulunsad ng magkakasunod na matatagumpay na taktikal na opensiba sa buong kapuluan. Sa nagdaang mga araw, nakapaglunsad ang NPA ng hindi bababa sa sampung matatagumpay na taktikal na opensiba: sa Ilocos Sur at Cagayan Valley sa […]
Telesur: Do you see the bluster and loud messages from Duterte as a sort of strong-arm negotiating tactic simply meant to force a CPP-NDF-NPA capitulation? CPP Information Bureau: Yes, Duterte’s loud, dirty and blustery mouth aims to bully the Party, the NPA and NDFP to accept his terms for surrender of the revolutionary forces. This […]
By cancelling the scheduled talks with the NDFP, GRP President Duterte is showing he no longer has need for peace negotiations with the NDFP amid waging a triple war of death and destruction under its US-supported martial law rule. His order today to rearrest the NDFP’s consultants is a violation of the JASIG and violates […]
Based on reports submitted by the NPA-Regional Operations Command in Southern Mindanao. At 6 a.m. of July 19, Red fighters of the First Pulang Bagani Company manning an NPA checkpoint at Barangay Katipunan, Arakan town along the Davao-Cotabato-Bukidnon national highway flagged down a white unmarked and heavily-tinted armored vehicle. It later was identified as belonging […]
Dapat magkaisa ang buong sambayanang Pilipino at lahat ng rebolusyonaryong pwersa para buong-lakas na labanan ang balak ng rehimeng Duterte na palawigin ang batas militar sa Mindanao hanggang sa katapusan ng taon. Ang pagpapalawig ng batas militar ay tiyak na magreresulta sa lalong paglala ng mga abusong militar at pulis. Lalo pa nitong patatagalin ang […]
“Dominate the information environment.” This is one of the key tasks identified in the AFP’s Operational Directive released as part of its implementation of martial law. It is in line with this task that the AFP has seized control of the “information environment” in Marawi City which has been besieged and under total lockdown by […]
The CPP joins the Filipino people nationwide, especially in Mindanao, in denouncing the plan to extend martial law in Mindanao. Yesterday, GRP President Duterte said he is not set on lifting martial law before his SONA. Duterte claims he listens solely on the AFP for advise on martial law. Last month, however, military officials claimed […]
It has become all too apparent that the Duterte regime is not at all interested in the substantive agenda of peace negotiations with the NDFP and only wants to use the talks to compel the revolutionary forces to sign a premature bilateral ceasefire to silence the weapons of the NPA and prevent the people from […]