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Revolutionary youth orgs call support for Yulo farmers
January 30, 2021 |

Chapters of Kabataang Makabayan (KM) in Southern Tagalog and Laguna have expressed support for residents of Hacienda Yulo in their fight against attempts to drive them away from their land. “Let us be militant and unite with farmers to drive away Seraph Security, and the Ayala-Yulo collaboration,” says Victoria Madlangbayan of KM-Laguna. Non-stop attacks and […]

Police and soldiers kill surrenderee who refused to betray his family
January 29, 2021 |

When the 31st IB coerced Michael Bagasala to surrender in 2018, the military proclaimed that he may finally be able to live in peace. He had left the New People’s Army (NPA) a year earlier to return to civilian life. But on January 24 shortly after noon, police elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection […]

NPA not involved in Sorsogon journo killing—spokesman
January 28, 2021 |

Unable to thresh out the truth, the Philippine National Police (PNP)-Sorsogon has resorted to baselessly pointing fingers at the New People’s Army (NPA) and accusing it as responsible for last year’s killing of local journalist Jobert Bercasio. In a report released by Lt. Col. Benito Dipad Jr., the PNP-Sorsogon last January 21 declared the Bercasio […]

Fascists desecrate remains of martyred Red fighter
January 27, 2021 |

In Duterte’s dirty counterinsurgency war, not even the dead are spared from abuse. Violating international laws that prohibit the desecration of the dead, soldiers of the 501st Infantry Brigade dug up the grave of Justine Bautista, a martyred Red warrior, in Sitio Kapanisuwan, Barangay Bitag Grande, Baggao, Cagayan last January 23. It was an attempt […]

NPA in "dismantled" front ambushes Nolcom troops
January 26, 2021 |

A unit of the New People’s Army (NPA)-Ilocos Sur ambushed operating troops of the 71st Division Reconnaissance Company (DRC) in Barangay Lamag, Quirino. The ambush clearly disproves the recent AFP declaration of having “dismantled” the NPA in the area. The firefight lasted for about 40 minutes according to police reports. Pvt. Shame Reyes of the […]

If NPA being defeated, why 22 battalions in Southern Tagalog?
January 25, 2021 |

Continued deployment and operations of about 22 battalions of combined forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP) and units of the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) disprove AFP Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) claims of dismantling and weakening New People’s Army (NPA) units in the region, says Patnubay de […]

FIGHT BACK, UP! Revolutionary forces join call to defy campus militarization
January 24, 2021 |

Various revolutionary organizations joined the University of the Philippines (UP) community in condemning the unilateral abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND accord last January 18 by Department of National Defense Sec. Delfin Lorenzana. The abrogation came right before the commemoration of the Diliman Commune’s golden anniversary this February. The commune was an uprising of university students, […]

Ambushed soldiers of 62nd IB suffer misencounter with local CAFGU
January 19, 2021 |

After suffering defeat from an ambush by the New People’s Army (NPA) in Sitio Batong-buang, Barangay Trinidad, Guihulngan, Negros Oriental at around 1 p.m. last Saturday, combat troops of the 62nd IB got itself into a misencounter with their local paramilitary unit at around 4 p.m. in the same vicinity. Thirteen troops were reportedly killed […]

Military unit behind Sorsogon massacre, ambushed by NPA in Legazpi City
January 18, 2021 |

A unit of the New People’s Army ambushed armed troops belonging to the 31st Infantry Battalion in Barangay Banquerohan, Legazpi City yesterday morning, January 17 killing three soldiers. “The ambush is in response to Alabayanon’s clamor for justice for the grave crimes of the 31st IB and the police,” said Ka Florante Orobia, spokesperson of […]

Solcom officials call off "surrender" ceremony after NPA fire shots at helicopter
January 16, 2021 |

Senior officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Southern Luzon Command (AFP-Solcom) were forced to call off a “surrender” ceremony and kick-off of its bogus socio-economic projects in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro last January 9. This was after NPA fighters fired shots at a helicopter that was supposed to fetch the said officers from […]