Over the past few days, a senate committee has been conducting public hearings on a proposed measly ₱100 increase in the daily workers’ wages. Workers organizations have welcomed the opportunity to place their long-standing demand for wage increases on the national spotlight, especially in the face of skyrocketing prices of food and other basic commodities. […]
Today we mark the 85th birth anniversary of Ka Jose Ma. Sison, founding chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines. We remember his invaluable contributions to the revolutionary resistance of the Filipino proletariat and people, both as an ideological leader and a practical organizer of their struggle for national and […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its deepest sympathies to the families, relatives and friends of the scores of victims of the deadly landslide that buried dozens of homes and vehicles in Zone 1, Barangay Masara, in Maco town, Davao de Oro last night. According to reports, at least seven people died, while […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the strongest terms, for the killing of two senior citizens in Cawayan, Masbate yesterday (February 5), then publicly claiming the two were fighters of the New People’s Army who were killed in an encounter. In fact, there was no […]
Exactly 125 years ago today, American colonial occupation forces fired shots at Filipino soldiers crossing a bridge in San Juan, Manila (now San Juan City) sparking armed hostilities signaling the start of the Filipino-American war and the slaughter of thousands in the course of the bloody US colonization of the Philippines. It also signaled the […]
The Filipino people’s clamor for the abolition of the National Task Force (NTF)-Elcac continues to mount, buttressed by the recommendation made yesterday by United Nations Special Rapporteur Irene Khan, and a recent similar recommendation by fellow UNSR Ian Fry. In tandem with the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police (PNP), the […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the US imperialist government and its military forces for carrying out aerial bombing and drone strikes in at least 85 sites in Syria and Iraq which are acts of military aggression outrightly violating these countries’ sovereignty. By staging these strikes in Syria and Iraq, the US is […]
Together with the Filipino people, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the US military and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for planning to hold another round of large-scale war exercises in the Philippines that trample on the country’s national sovereignty and further drag the country into military and economic conflicts of the […]
The attack last Sunday against a US military facility in the northern part of Jordan just south of Syria known as Tower 22 marks the further expansion and rising possibility of an escalation of the war in the Middle East. The attack was carried out a few weeks since the US and United Kingdom started […]
The Filipino people roundly rejects the conflict of the Marcoses and Dutertes, as neither represent the interests of the broad masses of workers, peasants, semiproleteriat, professionals and intellectuals. Both, in fact, represents the worst of the bureaucrat capitalists, and the ruling oppressive and exploitative classes of big landlords and bourgeois compradors, and both promote fascist […]