Aeta barricade at Mt. Pinatubo. On April 18, the Aeta community in Mt. Pinatubo, Sitio Tarukgan, Barangay Santa Juliana, Capas, Tarlac mounted a barricade to assert their right to their land. For several years, state tourism agencies have not been properly paying the indigenous people, and without NCIP support. Police unjustly arrested and charged […]

Two cases of abduction of mass leaders from Southern Tagalog were recorded in the past two weeks. In addition, soldiers and police also committed human rights violations in Isabela, Quezon, and Metro Manila. In Batangas, state forces abducted Pauline Joy Banjawan, an organizer of Kadamay-Southern Tagalog who was campaigning for Bayan Muna, on April 26. […]

Marco Valbuena, CPP chief information officer, today dismissed claims by a spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that the NPA is engaged in “electoral extorion.” Brig. Gen. Vestuir claimed that they have not monitored any “electoral extortion” of the NPA in both islands of Samar and Leyte on the premise of the […]

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today thanked candidates and parties taking part in the on-going election campaign of the reactionary government for complying with the rules governing the conduct of election campaign in guerrilla zones, where the revolutionary forces exercise political authority. “Political candidates, mostly running for local seats, have generally shown goodwill […]