Opening new territories, or doing expansion work in an area, is a difficult but challenging task of the people’s army. In Negros, one such place is Niyog, a barrio in the island’s hinterlands. Almost all residents here are poor peasants. Some are farmworkers. They plant coconuts and produce copra. At the outset of expansion work, […]

Four full sessions of the Basic Party Course and an instructors training was recently conducted in the Bicol region. “The BPC further deepened my eagerness to join the NPA. This gave me a clearer understanding of what the people’s army actually does,” said Ka Troy, one of the students. Coordinated educational discussions were conducted to […]

Two civilians were killed and seven others were arrested by state forces in the past two weeks. Suspected state agents gunned down Sang­gu­ni­an Ka­ba­ta­an (SK) councilor Ha­rold Tab­lazan at Sit­io Pas­si, Ba­ra­ngay Mayang, Tu­bu­ngan, Iloi­lo last June 20. Tablazan was a former member of the Fe­de­ra­ti­on of Iloi­lo Far­mers Asso­cia­ti­on and is currently working in […]

Thousands of Americans marched in more than 100 cities across the US in June 19 to mark the 155th Ju­ne­te­enth, the day in 1865 when the Black people were formally emancipated from slavery in the United States. Majority marked the commemoration with protests to demand justice over police brutality and racist killings that target Black […]

  THOUSANDS OF CHILEANS trooped to San­tia­go, the national capital of Chile, on Ma­y 18 to express their anger and expose the hunger and poverty they are suffering due to the lockdown and the onslaught of the Covid-19 crisis. They condemned the surge in the prices of food and water in the country due to […]