Archive of Peasants

79th IB-PA’s RCSP in Gawahon, Victorias City, Protector of Anti-People Projects
June 26, 2022 | New People's Army | Negros Island Regional Operational Command (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) | NPA-Northern Negros (Roselyn Pelle Command) | Cecil Estrella | Spokesperson |

79th Infantry Battalion – Philippine Army (79th IB-PA) conducts Retooled Community Service Program (RCSP) in Barangay XI (Gawahon), Victorias City since January 24, 2022. Their operations covered the areas of Proper Gawahon, Hda. Aida of the said barangay and its neighboring sitios. RCSP is conducted by the enemy force to clear the areas of all […]

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, […]

Isang Madugong Linggo ng Hunyo sa Daet
June 25, 2022

Mahigit apat na dekada na ang nakaraan, ngunit tuwing buwan ng Hunyo hindi mawawaglit sa alaala ng mamamayan ng Daet, Camarines Norte, at ng buong Bicolandia, ang binansagang “Bloody Sunday” o “Madugong Linggo” na naganap noong panahon ng diktadurang rehimeng US-Marcos I. Kabalintunaan na nangyari ang “Bloody Sunday” ilang buwan lamang pagkatapos tinapos sa pangalan […]

Pag-upo ni Marcos Jr bilang kalihim sa agrikultura, insulto sa magsasaka
June 25, 2022

Gutom ang aabutin ng masang Pilipino sa pag-upo ni Ferdinand Marcos Jr bilang kalihim ng Department of Agriculture, ayon sa Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas sa kanilang pahayag noong Hunyo 20. “Itinatakwil namin si Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr bilang kalihim ng agrikultura,” ayon sa grupo. Tanong ng mga magsasaka, bakit siya pa ang temporaryong uupo sa […]

Dirty war, military corruption to worsen under new defense chief, says CPP
June 18, 2022

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today scoffed at Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s appointment yesterday of retired general Jose Faustino Jr as new secretary of the Department of National Defense (DND). The CPP said that the newly-installed secretary will only further cultivate military corruption and bring his dirty war in Mindanao to the national scale. […]

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 […]

Pagsabog ng bulkan at militarisasyon, patung-patong na delubyo ng mamamayang Sorsoganon
June 15, 2022 |

Matinding kagutuman ang tiyak na kakaharapin ng mamamayang Sorsoganon dahil sa phreatic eruption o pagbuga ng mainit na hangin ng bulkang Bulusan nitong Hunyo 5, at Hunyo 12, kung saan ay natabunan ng makapal na abo at lahar ng bulkan ang mga bayan ng Juban, Irosin, at Casiguran habang inabot din ng abo ang mga […]

Lupa sa nagbubungkal!
June 12, 2022 | New People's Army | Central Luzon Regional Operational Command (Josepino Corpuz Command) | Jose Agtalon | Spokesperson |

Umasa at nanalig sila na magkakalupa sa bisa ng CARP. Umasa at naghinay sila na maibigay ang kanilang karapatan sa lupa. Pero makaraan ang halos dalawang dekada, sa kulungan ng Conception, Tarlac ang kanilang kinahantungan. Sila ang mga magsasaka sa dating Hacienda Tinang. Sila ay mga lehitimong benepisyaryo ng CARP na inisyuhan na ng CLOA […]

Condemn mass arrest of close to 100 farmers in Tarlac
June 10, 2022 | Communist Party of the Philippines | Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer |

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins the Filipino people in strongly condemning the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the mass arrest of 92 farmers and brutal dispersal of the community land preparation activity (referred to as bungkalan or collective farming) of farmers and their supporters in Hacienda Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac yesterday. The farmers […]

Bungkalan sa Tarlac, marahas na binuwag; 92 inisyal na inaresto
June 10, 2022

Marahas na binuwag ng Philippine National Police (PNP) ang bungkalan o sama-samang pagsasaka ng lupa sa Hacienda Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac kahapon, Hunyo 9. Inaresto nito ang 92 magsasaka, kabataan at artista. Ang bungkalan ay pinamunuan ng Malayang Kilusang Samahan ng Magsasaka ng Tinang (MAKISAMA-Tinang.) Inihahanda ng mga magsasaka ang dalawang ektarya ng lupa sa Hacienda […]