UPDATES Philippines is a fortnightly publication of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).

It aims to deliver up-to-date, concise and globally significant news about the revolutionary movement in the Philippines. Specifically, it will deliver news about the agrarian revolution, building of community associations and local government units, and the intensifying civil war in the country.

Last August 21, about 50 youths pledged as new members of Kabataan Makabayan in a barrio in Eastern Visayas. With the theme, “Youth, support the mass movement in the barrios! Join the New People’s Army! Resist the fascism of the AFP!” members of the revolutionary youth organization, KM, attended the conference wherein they discussed various […]

Over the past two weeks, the Filipino people have been seething with outrage in the face of the left, right and center exposés of large-scale corruption and anomalies of Duterte and his close officials. The recently released reports of the Commission on Audit details these anomalies. Senate hearings over the past few days reveal additional information that corruption under the Duterte regime is directed from Malacañang itself.

While civilian mobility is strictly monitored and restricted, police and military units of Kalinga go unscathed after violating health protocols and spearheading Covid-19 super-spreader activities in August. New People’s Army (NPA)-Kalinga command spokesperson Ka Tipun Gil-ayab slammed on Saturday the 50th IB, Cordillera Police Regional Office and the Kalinga Provincial Police Office for spearheading a […]

If the Bicol Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict-Task Force Katuninongan asin Kauswagan (Bicol RTF-ELCAC) has anything to show for its two years of existence, it is that the armed struggle in Bicol continued to gain headway.