Archive of Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid-Southern Mindanao

On the 10th ID’s declaration of an almost insurgency-free Southern Mindanao and what it means to peasants in the region
June 25, 2022 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid-Southern Mindanao | Restituto Baguer | Spokesperson |

Almost but not quite. In a press junket on June 21, Major Gen. Nolasco Mempin, commander of the AFP’s 10th Infantry Division, declared in barely-suppressed glee that Davao de Oro, Davao City, Davao del Sur and Davao Occidental were now “insurgency-free.” He also said that it was only one province short, that being Davao Oriental, […]

Stand with the peasants of Hacienda Tinang in Concepcion, Tarlac!
June 15, 2022 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Southern Mindanao | Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid-Southern Mindanao | Restituto Baguer | Spokesperson |

The unjust and cruel dispersal and subsequent arrest and detention of farmers and their supporters in Hacienda Tinang in Brgy. Concepcion, Tarlac stands as a liminal state that sends off the anti-peasant US-Duterte regime and welcomes the hardly-different “Marcos II presidency.” The crime? The peasants were ensuring that their families will have food on their […]

72nd IB’s hamletting of peasants in Culaman Valley in Bukidnon is NTF-ELCAC and ATC’s fascist sleight of hand in action—PKM-SMR
March 20, 2022 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Southern Mindanao | Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid-Southern Mindanao | Restituto Baguer | Spokesperson |

BRGY. WHITE CULAMAN, KITAOTAO, BUKIDNON—They were coerced with the promise of freedom but were locked up instead. Nine farmers, eight Manobo and one Ilonggo, are currently being unlawfully detained in a local Paanakan center (lying-in clinic) of a peasant community here, after being coerced to “voluntarily surrender” to troops of the 72nd Infantry Battalion over […]

No, sir, the peasantry refuses to be mere bells and whistles or milking cows in your counterinsurgency war
October 26, 2021 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Southern Mindanao | Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid-Southern Mindanao | Restituto Baguer | Spokesperson |

The much-ballyhooed formation and federation of “people’s organizations” or POs by the 10th Infantry Division are mere bells and whistles at best and milking cows at worst for us peasants, peasant workers and Lumad in Southern Mindanao. These POs simply do not solve our perennial problem of landlessness and semifeudal exploitation, made worse by Duterte’s […]

Same old, same new in next year’s reactionary elections
October 11, 2021 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Southern Mindanao | Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid-Southern Mindanao | Restituto Baguer | Spokesperson |

Over the weekend, the entire country was gripped with a new wave of predictions, plans and promises– not of how to overturn the devastation wrought by the Covid-19 public health crisis and the Duterte regime’s neglect and corruption on the face of it—but from the slew of reactionary politicians who filed their certificates of candidacy […]

AFP’s focused military operation in haywire, terrorizes Lumad and peasants in North Cotabato and Bukidnon
November 26, 2020 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Southern Mindanao | Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid-Southern Mindanao | Restituto Baguer | Spokesperson |

In the mere two weeks of intense military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, state soldiers managed to victimize at least 21 Lumad and peasants and their families in 15 separate cases of human rights violations in the provinces of North Cotabato and Bukidnon. In their fascist trail of attacks between November 10 […]

Mobilize peasants in the millions to defeat Covid-19 pandemic, demand justice for Kidapawan massacre
April 01, 2020 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Southern Mindanao | Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid-Southern Mindanao | Restituto Baguer | Spokesperson |

  Today, the revolutionary peasants of Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid (PKM) in Southern Mindanao Region commemorate the 4th year anniversary of the Kidapawan massacre, the brutal shooting of barricading peasants of North Cotabato by state forces on April 1, 2016 in Kidapawan City. We continue to denounce and reject the appalling semi-colonial and semi-feudal […]