The AFP’s claim that NPA strength has been reduced to 2,000 and guerrilla fronts to 23 is a gross underestimation of the real strength of the revolutionary armed forces. The obvious aim, of course, is to make it appear that the AFP is winning their brutal war after five years of all-out spending and large-scale […]

The Filipino people’s struggle has entered a new phase as Ferdinand Marcos Jr takes his place as the new head of the neocolonial state. The people and their patriotic and democratic forces face a great challenge to strengthen the unity of the people and to advance their struggles. Like his father dictator and predecessors, Marcos […]

The intensifying international capitalist crisis causing grave hardships on the toiling people has caused global social unrest. Massive protest actions by unions and democratic organizations demanding higher wages, oil price rollbacks and economic rights and demands have erupted and is engulfing the world. 
Latin America’s Paro Nacional The 18-day Paro Nacional (national strike) led by […]

Media suppression went into full swing on days leading to Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s inauguration to Malacañang. On June 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission upheld its 2018 decision to shutdown news site Rappler. Earlier, the National Task Force-Elcac ordered telecommunications companies to block 28 websites, including the website of the Communist Party of the Philippines […]

The New People’s Army (NPA)-Sultan Kudarat mounted four armed offensives from June 15 to June 29 against operating police and military units. The NPA lobbed a grenade and fired at a counterinsurgency unit of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) operating in Sitio Meleb, Barangay Butril, Palimbang on June 29. Five policemen were […]