The 303rd Brigade was preparing to initiate a bloodier and more violent counterrevolutionary campaign last month thus Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Andres Centino was hinting their time table of possibly defeating the New People’s Army (NPA) in Negros Island by year end during his visit here in late May. […]

At least five members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were instantly killed last June 16 as a Super Tucano military aircraft dropped at least five bombs on their guerrilla camp in Barangay Anticala, Butuan City at around 10:45 a.m. The NPA fighters were part of a guerrilla platoon that serves the people of Agusan […]

  Workers Protest. Workers from Gardenia Bakeries Philippines and Philfoods Fresh Baked Products led a protest in Sta. Rosa, Laguna on June 6 to denounce the NTF-Elcac for continuous suppression of workers in the region. They condemned a new series of harassments and military intrusion in factories where seminars are held to red-tag union members. […]

China’s 40% ownership of the Philippine’s national electric grid system was a hot topic in the Senate recently. Senators said it is dangerous for a service with national security importance to be in the hands of a foreign entity. However, in contrast to how much they were “concerned” with foreign control of power transmission, they […]

Peasants from Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog under the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and other peasant groups denounced the inutility of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) on its 35th anniversary on June 10. They marched along the streets of Manila to pound the Marcos regime for the law’s broken promises and its inaction amid […]