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Is this the future you gave your life for?
If you were Gabriela Silang, Jose Rizal, or Andres Bonifacio and by some miracle you woke up and found yourself in today’s Philippines, would you say that this is the future you fought and shed your blood for?
With over 712,000 infections and over (...)
Revolutionary Salute to all Comrades in Arms in the Revolutionary Peoples’ Army (RPA) on its 27th year of Socialist Revolution!
The year 2020 has been a trying period globally with the new covid-19 facing and managing the pandemic and its serious effects in the economy. The disastrous effects (...)
Two years after first setting foot on Philippine soil, I found myself with other American activists on a plane bound for the United States. It was November 1972, two months after martial law was declared in the country. The Marcos regime ordered our deportation back to the U.S. When the plane (...)
The Philippine military claims that a breakthrough is around the corner, but a continuation of the conflict is convenient for many.
The Philippines’ Maoist insurgency has spanned over five decades and is one of the world’s longest ongoing armed conflicts. The roots of militant communism in the (...)
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Filemon “Ka Popoy” Lagman by enemies of the working class. As a comrade of Popoy, drafting this reply is my personal contribution to commemorating his legacy.
An article penned by John Malvar and posted in the World Socialist Website (...)
We can’t go back to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem — this graffiti, scrawled on a wall in Hongkong, has become a universal slogan capturing the essence of the crisis we face, now being revealed to millions more people, under the impact of the coronavirus (...)
Revolutionary Peoples’ Army – National Operational Command (RPA-NOC) Statement on the RPA’s 26th Year Anniversary.
26 years ago in the middle of Lanao del Sur jungle (Guerilla Camp Ariel) that a Military Conference was called for by the former Central Mindanao Region of the then Communist Party (...)
Love in a time of coronavirus, just like love in a time of cholera, has already happened and will likely continue to happen. How about a ceasefire on the war front between the Philippine government/armed forces and the communist-led rebels in this time of coronavirus? It has happened before, (...)
Why did peasants and rural workers support the revolutionary movement CPPNPA (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army, henceforth called NPA)? The question is hardly trivial: without the support of more than a million people in Philippine villages and towns who supplied manpower, (...)
By 2022, will the Left be able to transcend its historical reticence and finally achieve a breakthrough in electoral politics?Why did the Philippine Left perform badly (and worse than in previous years) in the 2019 elections? In the party-list contest, the mainstream Left saw its votes fall (...)
National Security Adviser Hermogenes C. Esperon, Jr. was reported to have said that peace zones like those in Sagada, Mountain Province and in Mindanao would be reviewed basically in so far as these have barred the entry and presence of police and military personnel but not rebels particularly (...)
The partylist group PM opened its electoral bid for “genuine representation for the marginalized” with a grassroots campaign involving workers, urban and youth. A group of idealistic youth campaigned early morning today by train hopping for their favored opposition senatorial bets and the (...)
On October 21 nine members of the Philippine National Federation of Sugar Workers were shot dead while participating in a protest. The killers are assumed to be employed by local capitalists. Killings of union, peasant, and other activists have increased sharply under President Duterte. Dozens (...)
This collection explores the difficult development of the filipino left after 1986.
The papers represent the first attempt ever to bring together in one collection the works of scholars specializing or interested on the Philippine Left and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). They are (...)
This chapter examines the extreme left. It is “extreme” in both methods—armed guerrilla warfare—and goals, although not all those engaged in armed struggle agree on the extreme goals. At the moment, this portion of the left is, indeed, in considerable disarray. The acrimonious struggle between (...)
Over the past eight years, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has gone from being the most significant threat to the stability of the Philippine state and the hegemonic force on the Left, to a splintered party in danger of eventually becoming merely a thorn in the side of the (...)
The fifth and, at that time, bloodiest coup attempt against Corazon Aquino’s Philippine presidency occurred in August of 1987. Government troops needed three days to root out the pockets of rebellious soldiers scattered throughout the metropolis, at the end of which time Manila radio stations (...)
Beginning with the 1987 congressional and senatorial elections, the post-EDSA resurrection of formally democratic institutions and processes paved the way for what commentators have referred to as the “return of the oligarchs” to political predominance in the Philippines. Subsequent elections (...)
The method of presentation will be in the period of the appearance of the political parties in the country. The focus is on the different revolutionary groups. This document is for discussion and therefore open for comments.
The Establishment of the Partido Kumunista ng Pilipinas (PKP)
In (...)
What can be (or should be) an alternative to Duterte? The publication in the Inquirer of an article of Richard Heydarian prompted an answer form the Partido ng Manggagawa (PM, Labor Party-Philippines). We are reproducing below the answer of the PM in full, the shorter version as published in (...)
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