November 25 annually marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW). It honors the martyrdom of the Mirabal sisters who were killed by the Dominican Republic state in 1960. The dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the killing of sisters Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa for their resistance. The sisters, known as butterflies […]

The Philippine Army has recently admitted to suffering casualties in an armed engagement against a unit of the New People’s Army in Barangay Babaclayon, San Jose de Buan, Western Samar last Wednesday, December 3. We are still confirming this with the local NPA unit. For now, we wish to shed light on the long list […]

Sylvie, an activist based in the United States, recalled how they were introduced to the national democratic movement a few years ago. A background in the natural sciences had left them feeling frustrated with how the academe presented climate change as something detached from the politics of capitalism and imperialism. After sharing their frustrations with […]

The International Theoretical Conference on Fascism in the 21st Century in the Imperialist Heartlands was successfully held from 28-29 November 2025 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The gathering marks the fifth in a series of international conferences organized by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). The two-day conference built upon the theoretical and historical […]

This year’s commemoration of Andres Bonifacio Day has been preluded by massive mobilizations in indignation against corruption such as anomaly in budget insertions, ghost flood control and farm to road projects. Here in Negros Island, thousands of church people, youth, workers, urban poor, and other sectors participated in protests like the September 21 Martial Law […]