State terrorism under the Duterte tyranny continues to intensify under the wrongly named Anti-Terrorism Law, enacted exactly a year ago today. Duterte’s police and military forces have carried out heightened systematic attacks against civilians as part of his desperate war to suppress the people’s democratic resistance and his scheme to perpetuate himself in power. The […]
In pushing for the arming of groups to supposedly fight the New People’s Army, what Philippine Pres. Rodrigo Duterte and Interior Sec. Eduardo Año wants is to bring back the Alsa Masa vigilante group of the late 1980s which was notorious for extrajudicial killings, abuse of power and terrorizing civilians in Agdao, Davao City. In the […]
The Biden government is contemptible for pushing through with the possible sale of more military weapons to the Duterte tyrannical regime in exchange for securing the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) which Duterte has repeatedly play-acted to scrap. Last June 24, the US State Department’s issued a certification approving the Duterte government’s request to buy ₱118 […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denounces Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for promotion of armed vigilantism when he called for the arming of police-organized groups and abetting them to kill. Duterte’s outright promotion of armed vigilantes is an open endorsement of the operation of his death squads which, together with the state police forces, […]
We denounce the unabated attacks against civilians perpetrated by military and police forces in the course of the Duterte regime’s counterinsurgency operations. At least seven civilians have been killed in these attacks over the past three weeks. These attacks are being carried out systematically by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denounces the US government for continuing to prop up the murderous Duterte regime by delivering last Monday a new round of weapons worth ₱183 million to the Philippine military, including heavy machine guns, mortar tubes and others. This latest delivery of weapons by the US military was carried […]
The Party and revolutionary movement support the demand for justice for Johndy Maglinte, 16-year old, who was killed by police in Laguna province while in handcuffs and laying prostrate on the ground, in a supposed drug operation last week. He was apparently killed by police after he witnessed police officers kill a drug suspect in […]
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is weaving lies to cover up the murder of three civilians in Surigao del Sur by its fascist armed troops last Tuesday. On June 15 at around 1 p.m., local civilians Willy Rodriguez, Lenie Rivas and 12-year old Angel Rivas were mowed down by gunfire by armed troops […]
The Party welcomes the move seeking the International Criminal Court (ICC) permission to start a full-blown investigation into the tens of thousands of police killings perpetrated under the Duterte regime’s drug war. The CPP supports the clamor for justice of the victims of the police drug killings, a sham campaign to dissemble Duterte’s war to […]
Malacañang’s announcement that it has suspended the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) only means that Duterte wants to continue using the renegotiations to wring more military aid from the United States to prop up his regime. Duterte wants to use the US objective of stationing troops in the Philippines as leverage to demand […]