UNITS AND COMMANDS under the New People’s Army (NPA)-Negros Island (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) were mobilized to support and help the Negrosanon masses affected by the Mt. Kanlaon eruption. It erupted on June 3 and communities in Central Negros experienced lahar torrents from the volcano on June 6 as a result of heavy rains that mixed […]
HERE AND ABROAD, national-democratic groups protested to condemn the continued US imperialist neocolonial rule in the country on June 12, the day of the country’s false independence. They marched towards the US embassy on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City and called on the Filipino people to expose and oppose US imperialism and fight for genuine freedom […]
THE COMMUNITIES AROUND the US military bases, or so-called “EDCA sites” and Balikatan 2024 venues saw widespread negligence, disinformation and repression by the reactionary government and US military. This is the conclusion of a fact-finding mission conducted by Bayan-USA and PINAS Peace mission in Central Luzon, Ilocos Norte and Marawi City. They publicized the results […]
Generations may have passed, but the support of the peasant masses of Samar for the New People’s Army (NPA) remain unwavering. This was the message of the revolutionary masses in the province when they had an opportunity to meet the NPA after some time. “Our parents raised me and my siblings having the high respect […]
Amid uninterrupted military terrorism and fascist repression in Negros, Party cadres and members in the island ardently carry out the Central Committee’s call in December 2023 to launch the rectification movement. Revolution, the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of the Philippines, and the writings of Comrade Jose Maria Sison were used as practical references […]
The issue of divorce came up again recently after Congress approved a bill legalizing it in the Philippines. Unlike annulment and legal separation, the legal option of divorce is to dissolve the marriage, reverting the couple to “single” status and allowing them to marry someone else. Divorce is already legal worldwide, except for the Philippines […]
El Niño has ended and the rainy season has started, but the toiling masses, especially farmers and fisherfolk, still bear the burden of the destruction of their livelihoods by the drought intensified by climate change. The Marcos regime’s response to the nearly one-year drought is grossly insufficient and hypocritical. In the most recent conservative data […]
Ferdinand Marcos Jr insists farmers are benefiting from the bogus Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) under his regime. In recent months, he has been going around the country to conduct ceremonies of distributing Certificates of Land Ownership Awards (CLOA). These are hollow spectacles because the truth is the country’s farmlands remain in the hands of […]
ON JUNE 10, progressive organizations of farmers, fisherfolk and land rights advocates led by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas protested before the DAR in Quezon City in conjunction with the 36th year of CARP. They condemned the rottenness of the longest, most expensive, and most repressive “land reform.” Farmers from Bulacan who were victims of the […]