Read in: Pilipino What power does a dictator have to forgive a person who has not even committed a crime? This is the people’s cry after Duterte issued a series of amnesty proclamations for those he considers enemies, including the CPP-NPA-NDFP, MNLF and reactionary RPB-ABB. In order to be blessed with benefits and amnesty, an […]

“He was known to be the mild-mannered, big-built man who had no qualm about carrying out simple tasks,” remembers Ka Rigoberto Sanchez, spokesperson of the New People’s Army (NPA) Southern Mindanao Regional Operational Command. A year after Eduaro “Ka Choi” Arnado was martyed in a firefight on February 28, 2020 with joint operations of the […]

Maj. Gen. Pio Diñoso III of the 8th Infantry Division-Philippine Army is just one of the many Army chiefs before him who declared they have “dismantled” the NPA’s guerrilla fronts or that they will defeat the NPA in Eastern Visayas. And like all his warmongering predecessors, who think that more troops, more bombs and bigger […]

In a statement released last February 28, the New People’s Army (NPA) in Western Samar slammed the 19th IB and PNP-Special Action Force for the increase of forced “surrenders” in Matuguinao, Western Samar. The 19th IB, together with Matuguinao mayor and military agent Aran Boller, recently presented 353 residents as “NPA supporters”. This came after […]

This book presents and analyzes the major events and issues that agitate the people in the Philippines and world in 2020 and that continue to drive them to carry out mass protest actions as well as the revolutionary armed resistance. The perfect storm–the convergence of extreme conditions of oppression and exploitation–has already beset the Philippines […]