Archive of Communist Party of the Philippines

Claims against wage increase have long been debunked
February 13, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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. […]

Continuing relevance of Jose Ma. Sison and validity of the struggle for national democracy
February 08, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]

Justice for victims of Maco landslide!
February 08, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]

Condemn AFP for killing of civilian senior citizen spouses in Masbate
February 06, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]

US shot in San Juan 125 years ago, start of global imperialist conquest
February 04, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]

NTF-Elcac has caused great harm to people's rights and freedom
February 03, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]

US strikes in Syria and Iraq threaten escalation of war in Middle East
February 03, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]

Condemn and oppose plan to hold Balikatan near Taiwan
February 01, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]

US military intervention prolongs and expands wars in the Middle East
January 31, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]

Marcos-Duterte squabbles are contradictions among fascist oppressors
January 30, 2024 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

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 […]