To the masses of Southern Mindanao, the recent announcement by the AFP’s 10th Infantry Division of of keeping its forces, including detachments, paramilitaries and retooled community support program (RCSP) units, proves how hollow its barely month-old “insurgency-free” declaration truly is. In describing what they managed to achieve as “fragile peace,” the fascist hawks are themselves […]
The National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao condemns the Philippine National Police’s illegal arrest of two Lumad brothers who attended the protest rally in Davao City during the first state of the nation address (SONA) of fake president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on July 25. The Lumad youths must be immediately released without condition and the […]
The National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao calls on all democratic and revolutionary forces in the region to militantly protest and proclaim the real state of the country during tomorrow’s expected spectacle of the nation address of the illegitimate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. regime. The Marcos II regime—whose veneer of authority is tenuously built upon his […]
There is not, nor has there ever been, a single localized peace engagement between any local reactionary government unit, much less any AFP unit, and any organization or unit of the revolutionary movement in Southern Mindanao. From the get-go when the previous US-Duterte regime dangled the idea of “localized peace talks,” the revolutionary movement in […]
Amid the series of natural and man-made disasters that swamped Davao Oriental since late last year, it is contemptuous that the local ruling class continues trying to deodorize the ill-effects of the on-going open pit and large-scale mining to the environment and the overall welfare of the masses in the province. Farmers and Lumad in […]
The combined 105-hectare lands that the local government of Davao City is salivating over to develop into economic zones must instead be distributed to landless peasant and Lumad families in Davao City freely and immediately. The Davao City Investment Promotions Center (DCIPC) has recently announced that the 25-hectare land area in Brgy. Daliao, Toril and […]
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Southern Mindanao celebrates the month of Pride with all members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in solidarity and the spirit of struggle. On this gay occasion, we pay highest tribute to our martyred comrades in the region, among them Valerio Mante, Jr., Alvin […]
As the US-Duterte regime draws to a close, one definite legacy it will leave behind is pushing the Philippine eagle to the brink of extinction, choosing instead to allow black hawk helicopters and other environmentally-destructive military air assets to roam and bomb the forests of Southern Mindanao for the last six years.As the US-Duterte regime […]
The proposed amendment to Davao City’s anti-discrimination ordinance to include a provision supposedly protecting ‘former rebels’ is nothing but damage control to the adversely affected lives and livelihood of thousands of Lumad and peasants who were forced by the Armed Forces of the Philippines to “surrender” as New People’s Army fighters or sympathizers. It is […]
NDFP peace consultant Ezequiel C. Daguman was not killed in an armed encounter. He was a victim of abduction and subsequent extra-judicial killing by the Duterte regime’s heinous state terror and systematic campaign of murder of peace and rights advocates and non-combatants. The National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao condemns in the strongest terms the […]