Ferdinand Marcos praised assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe as a “devoted friend of the Philippines” while Rodrigo Duterte called him “a true friend close to a brother.” In doing so, they both insulted the collective memory of the Filipino people, whose sufferings under the Japanese colonial forces in the 1940s, Abe had worked […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines extends its solidarity with the working class and people of Sri Lanka as they wage resistance in the face an acute social and economic crisis marked by acute shortages of basic commodities, spiralling prices, plummeting wages resulting in widespread hunger and sufferings. Yesterday’s uprising of hundreds of thousands of […]
Katawa-tawa, kung tuusin, ang pahayag ng kumander ng 8th ID ng Philippine Army na palpak sa pagsagot sa nauna kong pahayag tungkol sa batayang ligal ng paggamit ng NPA ng command-detonated explosives. Dahil wala namang talaga siyang masabing malaman, bumaling na lang siya sa personal na banat sa akin. Hindi ko na iyon papansinin. Kung […]
The AFP’s claim that NPA strength has been reduced to 2,000 and guerrilla fronts to 23 is a gross underestimation of the real strength of the revolutionary armed forces. The obvious aim, of course, is to make it appear that the AFP is winning their brutal war after five years of all-out spending and large-scale […]
We are still awaiting details from the local unit, but judging by a report released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), fighters of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Northern Samar successfully mounted an ambush against a unit of the 20th IB in Barangay Magsaysay, Mapanas town early this morning. The enemy troops […]
Malacañang announced yesterday that Marcos Jr vetoed the bill creating the Bulacan Airport City Special Economic Zone and Freeport citing how it granted unlimited tax incentives to businesses that will be established in the area and how this cost government in revenues. Marcos Jr, however, explicitly said that he does not oppose the project and […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines condemns the conviction by the reactionary courts against National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant Concha Araneta. Araneta, who represents the Panay region, participated in peace negotiations in 2016. According to news reports, Araneta’s conviction was promulgated last June 28 by the Regional Trial Court in Taguig. […]
The Philippine Daily Inquirer today carried the news article “Esperon blasts CPP for opposing order to ban alleged pro-Red websites.” In it, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, national security advier, is quoted denouncing the CPP as “anti-democratic” because it wants a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” General Esperon must be repudiated and denounced for misleading and misinforming the people […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denounces the National Security Council and various agencies of the reactionary government for the push to erect a Marcos Anti-Democracy (MAD) Internet Firewall in a desperate bid to censor online criticism and dissent against the incoming illegitimate Marcos II regime, as well as suppress progressive, patriotic and revolutionary […]
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) today issued a press release about a supposed “CPP plot to embarrass or discredit” the inauguration of the Marcos II regime. In response, I wish to make the following points: 1) The DILG must be condemned for engaging in brazen red-baiting to justify their plan to use […]