Only The National Democratic Revolution Can End Bureaucrat Capitalist Rule: NDFP

The crisis of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal ruling system is quickly reaching a breaking point. As contradictions among the reactionary factions sharpen, both the Marcos clique and the Duterte camp now find themselves increasingly cornered, isolated, and exposed before the Filipino people and the world.

The exposé by Zaldy Co only affirms what the masses have long known: that Marcos Jr directly benefited from congressional insertions tied to corruption-ridden infrastructure projects. This regime, already notorious for its utter incompetence and flagrant extravagance, is once again unmasked as a machinery of plunder. Sinking under the weight of its own illegitimacy, Marcos Jr has grown desperate to secure the favor of his imperialist masters.

To keep himself afloat, Marcos Jr has surrendered national sovereignty piece by piece by signing one military agreement after another. The most recent Status of Visiting Forces Agreement with Canada and the formation of the US “Task Force Philippines” represent nothing less than the wholesale subordination of the country to US military control. In exchange for US protection and patronage, Marcos Jr has transformed the archipelago into a forward base of US imperialist war, placing the Filipino people directly in harm’s way as the US continues to provoke China into an impending hot war.

The incompetence of the Marcos Jr regime is equally exposed by the devastation caused by consecutive typhoons and earthquakes in recent months. Entire communities have been left in ruins while the government scrambles without coordination, urgency, or resources. Relief has been slow, insufficient, or altogether absent forcing ordinary Filipinos to fend for themselves while officials pose for cameras and trade accusations on national media. This deliberate abandonment of disaster-stricken communities exposes the Marcos Jr regime as utterly detached from the people and deepening in its isolation from the masses.

Meanwhile, the Dutertes are scrambling to exploit the chaos and regain lost ground. They rally their own political machinery, hoping that the people can again be fooled, but they badly miscalculate. Rodrigo Duterte remains detained despite the sham theatrics portraying him as a frail old man, a ploy meant to manufacture sympathy and obscure accountability. At the same time, the Dutertes are far from exempt in the unfolding corruption scandals. The stench of their thievery has likewise been exposed in the anomalous flood-control projects in Davao City under Paolo Duterte’s term as mayor between 2020 to 2022, revealing how deeply they, too, have dipped their hands into public coffers. With an ICC arrest warrant closing in on Bato dela Rosa and former allies breaking ranks, the Duterte camp is rapidly sinking into isolation.

In the midst of these scandals, the recent INC (Iglesia ni Cristo) mobilization emerged as a destabilization attempt driven largely by factions seeking leverage in the ruling-class crisis. While it reflects real anger among ordinary church members, trapos (traditional politicians) and local officials rushed to ride the wave out of fear of being tagged as complicit in corruption, while rival cliques maneuver to weaponize the protest for their own agenda. The people must refuse to let their outrage be hijacked by any reactionary faction, including the Duterte bloc. Instead, mass anger must be transformed into genuine people’s protest: one that fuels revolutionary struggle and pushes for revolutionary change of government, not the recycling of the same corrupt, puppet politicians.

In this intensifying rivalry among the reactionary cliques, US imperialism plays multiple pieces on the board. Beyond the Marcoses and the Dutertes, US imperialism continues to rely on its reserve horse, the Liberal-Akbayan coalition, to corral public opinion and redirect mass anger into safe parliamentary channels. They propagate the deceit that opposing Marcos will inevitably restore Duterte, thereby pressuring the people to cling to the very system that exploits them. This is a calculated ploy to keep the masses trapped within the bounds of reactionary politics and away from revolutionary struggle.

But the Filipino people are not condemned to choose merely between factions of their oppressors. The deepening crisis of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system only underscores that no faction of the ruling class can or will resolve the suffering of the people. The moment demands the necessity of waging the national democratic revolution, dismantling the machinery of the reactionary state, and establishing a people’s democratic government.

As conditions worsen amid spiraling poverty, landlessness, government neglect during times of disasters, the massive theft of public funds, and growing repression, more and more Filipinos are choosing the path of armed resistance. As the legal democratic mass movement surges, so too must the strength of the underground revolutionary forces. The New People’s Army must continue building widespread mass bases in the countryside, carrying out agrarian revolution, fighting for land, and dismantling the landlords’ stranglehold over the countryside. The only genuine path out of this political circus and the end of bureaucrat capitalism, is the advance and eventual victory of the national democratic revolution with a socialist perspective.

NDFP International Office | National Democratic Front Of The Philippines

November 27, 2025

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NPA Unit Punishes AFP Intelligence Asset In Negros Occidental Province

The New People’s Army (NPA)-South Central Negros (Romeo Nanta Command) armed action killed 94th IB intelligence asset Jomy Pelarta on the night of November 6 in Sitio Sig-ang, Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental Province. Pelarta was involved in the killing of the hors de combat NPA-Negros Island (Apolinario Gatmaitan Command) spokesperson Ka Juanito Magbanua (Romeo Nanta) in 2022.

Pelarta pinpointed Ka Juanito’s location in Sitio Medel. Ka Juanito was then on medical leave for his illness. The military consequently captured, tortured, and deliberately killed Ka Juanito in what they falsely presented as an armed encounter. Pelarta was also implicated in the raid conducted against the NPA unit a few days before the arrest of Ka Juanito.

Soldiers bribed him with cash and a motorcycle in exchange for his cooperation.

Pelarta also faced two counts of rape. One of his victims was a person with disability (PWD). He had another case of attempted rape.

According to the NPA-South Central Negros, the people’s army is sincere in protecting and defending the interests of the oppressed masses. The armed action against Pelarta adheres to this defense. The unit added that this should serve as a warning to all anti-social elements and counterrevolutionary forces who commit crimes against the people.

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Support the Filipino People in Demanding Justice for the Crimes of Duterte’s Police Chief Bato Dela Rosa, Long-Time US Counterinsurgency Operative: FFPS

Friends of the Filipino People in struggle join the Filipino people in welcoming the reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa due to his role in the killings of former President Rodrido Duterte’s so-called ‘War on Drugs’.

Dela Rosa was the head of the Philippine National Police during Duterte’s presidency and was the direct architect of many of the brutal policies which lead to what human rights groups estimate is over 30,000 deaths. On the first day of his appointment on July 1st 2016, he circulated a memo, officially launching the nationwide war on drugs, code named Project ‘Double Barrel’. This formalised and institutionalised mass killings with the state aim of the “neutralization of illegal drug personalities nationwide”. However, Dela Rosa also has a long track record of coordinating campaigns of mass killings and extrajudicial violence that predate Duterte’s presidency, dating back to the US-directed anti-communist counterinsurgency campaigns of the post-Martial Law period.

As a junior lieutenant in the Armed Forces of the Philippines stationed in Davao City in 1986, Dela Rosa was the handler of the armed anti-Communist paramilitary group and cult, the Holy Christian Crusaders, known as the ‘Tadtad’ (Filipino for ‘Chop Chop) for their practice of chopping the heads off of their victims. The Tadtads were known for brutal killings and grave human rights abuses on those they considered members of sympathisers of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Davao city. Rather than being ashamed of his role in these abuses, Dela Rosa still proudly boasts of his role directing the Tadtads. In 2020, shortly after the passing of the Anti-Terror Law by the US-Duterte regime directly targeting revolutionary and progressive forces in the country, Dela Rosa promoted his Anti-Communist credentials by posting an edited clip from the 1988 documentary film ‘A Rustling of the Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution’ (Dir. Nettie Wild). In this clip he shows his full awareness of a recent massacre committed by the Tadtads.

The Tadtads were just one group of many anti-communist paramilitary groups that the Philippine government used in their counter-insurgency campaign against the revolutionary forces, patterned after the US Counterinsurgency guide. These anti-communist paramilitary groups – the most well-known which being the Alsa Masa (Masses Rising) – also known as CAFGUs (Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit) were institutionalised as a key part of the Philippine Government’s counter-insurgency strategy under the post-Martial law Aquino government. Due to the widespread human rights abuses by these paramilitaries, the GRP began to dismantle them in 1993, only to halt this process in 1996 – with many of these groups still playing important roles in the Government’s counter-insurgency strategy.

Not only did Dela Rosa have a specific and devastating role in the apparatus of terror under the US-Duterte regime, but the death squads that he played a role in overseeing in-part inspired the Davao Death Squad (DDS) that Duterte used to pursue his so-called ‘War on Drugs’ during his time as Mayor of Davao City. This strategy was applied nationwide when he became president in 2016.

This strategy – which had its origins in the anti-communist counter insurgency – influenced a new wave of anti-communist repression after Duterte unilaterally terminated peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in November 2017. Like the ‘War on Drugs’, a new ‘whole of nation’ approach was taken as part of a renewed and reinvigorated the counter-insurgency program increased. Programs like the National Task Force for Ended Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the Anti-Terror law of 2020 brought terror to activists and communities ‘Red-Tagged’ as communists or communist sympathisers.

The recent International People’s Tribunal (2024) on exposed serious humanitarian abuses under this program – which have continued to this day under the Marcos Jr regime. Evidence of grave human rights abuses such wilful killing of civilians, use of indiscriminate acts of war like bombings and strafings, abduction, forced disappearances, torture, and extra-judicial killings were examined by the tribunal – which declared both the Duterte and Marcos Jr Regime ‘GUILTY’ of war crimes and grave abuses of international humanitarian law.

Anti-communist counterinsurgency operations in the Philippines are patterned after the US Counterinsurgency Guide and have been both directly and indirectly backed by the US. These operations have persisted from the post-Martial Law period through the US-backed Duterte regime and Dela Rosa, and continue to this day under the US-aligned Marcos Jr. administration.

After Duterte’s arrest by the ICC, the Marcos Jr regime sought to distance itself from the human rights abuses of his predecessor by introducing the NAP-UPD. Essentially a renaming of the ‘Whole of Nation’ approach to counter-insurgency, NAP-UPD continues to tag revolutionaries, legal democratic activists, and civilians as terrorists; promote fake ‘localised’ peace talks’ and surrenders; and continues the massive ramping up of military deployment in poor – particularly rural – communities, placing them in a state of de-facto martial law.

The prosecution of Duterte, and the reported arrest warrant wouldn’t have happened without the struggles of the victims and families of victims of their brutal regimes. We must meet this struggle by growing and deepening our international solidarity with those struggling for national and social liberation in the Philippines – from legal civilian activists at risk of red-tagging and harassment, to those Red Fighters who make the ultimate sacrifice so that the Philippines may one day be free.

To learn more about the NAP-UPD, read FFPS’s primer here.

To learn more in how this is affecting rural communities, see our reportback from the recent International Solidarity Mission.

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Denounce the US-Marcos Regime for Aggravating the Suffering of Disaster Survivors!

On the 12th anniversary of the onslaught of super typhoon Yolanda, revolutionary forces in Eastern Visayas stand in indignation with the Filipino people over the prolonged tragedy suffered by victims of disasters. We deeply condole with the people of Cebu, Southern Leyte, Negros and other areas ravaged by typhoon Tino. Like other disaster victims, their miseries have been compounded by the criminal negligence, blatant corruption and capitalist greed of US imperialism and their cohorts among the Marcos regime and local bureaucrats.

With over 6,300 dead, hundreds missing, 4 million displaced, 16 million affected, and an entire city washed out, the destruction wrought by the strongest typhoon in recorded history should have been a wake-up call for the global climate crisis, the culpability of climate imperialism, and for government accountability in times of catastrophes. But more than a decade hence and in the aftermath of Tino, the lessons of Yolanda remain relevant.

Dominant imperialist countries such as US and China continue to lead in causing irreversible damage across the globe. Driven by profit and monopolizing markets, they perpetuate the exploitation of natural and human resources while peddling “climate solutions” or “environmentally-friendly solutions” such as in infrastructure and renewable energy. These merely mask their role in pollution and engendering worse typhoons, rising temperatures, land dispossession, death and destruction, as the toiling masses bear the brunt of their exploitative activities.

Like other semicolonial and semifeudal countries, the Philippines is ruled by a neocolonial regime upholding the interest of foreign (primarily US) and local capitalists. Under Marcos, these capitalist ventures are now in overdrive. Just three years into his term, Eastern Visayas received a total of ₱234 billion worth of local and foreign investments, almost eight times the total amount of investments under the Duterte regime and seven times under the Noynoy Aquino regime. But the poor families in the region had nothing to gain from these—in 2023 it ranked third among the regions with the most number of poor families.

Keen for their share of the loot, ruling political dynasties through the Regional Development (RDC) act as local peddlers to investors. Last March, it endorsed 4,445 “development projects” totaling ₱238 billion where 74% was allocated for infrastructure. Among its key projects is the Cancabato causeway, a ₱6-billion project contracted to a corporation owned by Zaldy Co who is a close ally of Leyte 1st district representative Martin Romualdez. The reclamation and construction of the causeway in Cancabato Bay will displace 500 families, destroy the livelihood of fisherfolk, and kill the mangroves that are natural protectors of the coastline. Most of the RDC’s key projects will be constructed in Leyte, bailiwick of the Romualdez clan who are relatives of President Marcos.

Not content with the cheap labor and raw materials extracted from existing industries, the Marcos regime and the RDC have further opened Eastern Visayas up to investors with whom they seek to profit from the region’s hydroelectric, solar, wind and tidal wave resources. Under the framework of Marcos’ National Renewable Energy Program, RDC members Sharee Ann Tan of Samar province and Harris Ongchuan of Northern Samar have recently pushed for the Gemini and Lihangin Wind Projects, both joint ventures of the US-based company Vena Energy, Vivant Energy of the Garcia-Escaño family, and Aboitiz Renewables. By cutting down century-old trees, destroying the ecological balance and changing the natural landscape of the area where the wind turbines will be erected, these projects will exacerbate the landslides and floods the region is vulnerable to.

The people have nothing to gain from these projects. Nearly 100% of power generated in Eastern Visayas already comes from geothermal energy which is supposedly “clean.” But 90% of electricity reaching consumers come from fossil fuel, ironic for an area heavily devastated by climate change. Supply in the region remains limited and erratic, while prices are expensive.

Disaster victims doubly suffer due to the ill-preparedness, incompetence and outright embezzlement of public funds by corrupt government officials. Should they be lucky to be alive, they are made to crowd in substandard evacuation centers and beg for aid. Disaster survivors receive little to no compensation for damages and are resettled in unlivable housing. Peasants drown in debt as their crops are destroyed by unpredictable floods or droughts. Ordinary people who assert their demands are red-tagged and silenced.

Government “flood-control” and “disaster-resilient” infrastructure projects are useless, ill-thought, and rightly earning the people’s ire as cesspools of corruption. The Tide Embankment Project in Leyte, touted as a structure against storm surges, remains unfinished despite its ₱14-billion budget and displacing residents in coastline barangays. It is a prime example of disaster capitalism just like the anomalous and backlog-ridden Yolanda housing program.

Since Yolanda, the Filipino people continue to face one disaster after another. Every time, they are forced to endure literal storms, grieve for the loss of loved ones and possessions, rebuild their lives and try to reclaim their dignity. It is a vicious cycle where every time, the government betrays them, deflects blame for their prolonged misfortunes, and worsens their suffering.

But every calamity also exposes the innate rottenness and irredeemable nature of the current ruling system, and why it should be changed. The Filipino people must thus wage national democratic revolution to fight climate imperialism. They must arouse, organize and mobilize their ranks, wage campaigns to put an end to environmentally-destructive practices by government, demand just compensation for the victims of calamities, and assert the protection of the country’s natural resources for the sustainable use of the people.

As Professor Jose Maria Sison aptly put it, “The fight for climate justice is necessarily a national and class struggle against the foreign monopoly capitalists and the local exploiting classes that bring about climate injustice.” The only way to achieve genuine climate justice is to bring about systemic change—to engineer the downfall of capitalism and usher in socialism.

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CPP Panay Regional Committee Honors Martyred Revolutionary Leader

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Panay Regional Committee paid tribute to one of the most distinguished leaders of the revolutionary movement in the region, Roberto Moises Cabales (Comrade William), whom the military and police willfully killed on the night of October 5 in Barangay Coto, Lambunao, Iloilo Province. State forces claimed that Cabales and his companion, Mateo Suarez (Comrade Badong), fought back when served with an arrest warrant.

“The revolutionary forces and the broad masses of Panay mourn deeply and are firmly determined to achieve revolutionary justice for the treacherous killing of Comrade William and Comrade Badong,” the Regional Committee said.

The committee reported that more than ten vehicles filled with police and military personnel carried out the operation against the two. The war crime involved the combined forces of the 301st Brigade under Nhel Richard Patricio and the Philippine National Police (PNP)-Iloilo under Bayani Razalan.

Neighbors said they heard only three gunshots from Suarez’s house. Then armed state forces claimed they brought the victims to a hospital by ambulance. Both were declared dead on arrival.

“Comrade William was one of the most respected leaders of the CPP and the New People’s Army,” the Regional Committee stated.

In his youth, Cabales studied to become a doctor. “He combined his training in Western, Eastern, and traditional medicine to improve treatment for the masses who had long been deprived of adequate medical service,” the committee added.

The CPP regional leadership said Cabales’ aspiration to become a healer inspired him to join the movement that will heal a society afflicted by corruption and poverty. He served the Filipino masses for decades and worked closely with the Regional Committee in leading the revolutionary movement in Panay.

Cabales was also a political prisoner in 1999. The Military Intelligence Group (MIG) arrested and detained him on June 11, 1999, but released him five days later because of wrongful arrest. On November 22 of the same year, MIG abducted him along with Ruben Saluta and secretly detained them. He was surfaced three days later.

Meanwhile, Suarez was a former people’s army member who decided to leave several years ago for health reasons. He remained loyal and devoted to helping and supporting the revolutionary movement.

Suarez was also imprisoned in 2012 at the Capiz Rehabilitation Center. He was released after two years of detention after a court dismissed the charges of murder and illegal possession of firearms against him. After his release, he lived in Barangay Coto but continued to face harassment from the military, who pressured him to join the government’s “balik-loob” program.

According to the Regional Committee, amid the heinous crime of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and PNP, the families and friends of Cabales and Suarez must stand up to hold those involved accountable. However, the committee acknowledged that genuine justice cannot be fully achieved under a corruption-plagued system.

The Cabales Family Resolutely Stands

A statement from Cabales’ family and relatives signified their resolute stand against the Marcos regime’s propagated lies and justifications regarding the willful killing of the two. “We will not accept the others’ stories, especially the slander from those who killed him, about who Roberto Cabales was,” the statement said.

The family said that despite the hardships and trials they experienced along the revolutionary path their patriarch chose, they will always stand by him, respect, and admire him for his convictions. “We give him our love and strongest salute,” they said.

For the them, he was a good grandfather, father, and loving husband. “This is who he was and much more, this is how he was and will always be, no matter how many lies and intrigues the state and its paid speakers spread to control the narrative and legitimize his killing,” the family said.

“Our father decided to leave his family to dedicate his life to advancing change, standing with the poor and powerless,” they said. The family expressed comfort in the solidarity shown by many others whom their father had served and worked with. They also thanked everyone who continued to support him on his revolutionary path.

The family left a challenge to the public: before believing what the military and police say about their father’s killing, listen to the news and open your eyes to the systemic corruption in the bureaucracy, the accumulation of wealth by a few through plunder, and the suffering of the poor during disasters and crises. “Think about it. And think again carefully… our father was not wrong,” they said.

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Wage Revolution to Defeat Fascist Terror

On the morning of September 21, the 216 arrested youth protesters stood side by side with thousands of Filipinos demanding change. By that same afternoon, they were battered, handcuffed, and herded into cramped police vehicles, their voices drowned by gunshots, their visions blurred by tear gas, and their dignity assaulted by truncheons. Majority of the arrested individuals are from working class and urban poor backgrounds, 91 of whom are minors. Their only “crime” was expressing anger against the theft of billions, if not trillions, of pesos through corruption-laced flood control projects, confidential funds, and sweetheart deals that enriched both the Marcos Jr. and the Duterte ruling cliques.

Reactionary groups were quick to condemn the people’s militant protests as “unacceptable” or “violent.” They wag their fingers at protesters who blocked roads or clashed with police, yet remain on the side of the ruling class in the face of the daily violence endured by the poor. But what could be more just than the oppressed peoples rising against the everyday violence they endure? Against the corruption that drains resources meant for their survival, against the poverty that chains families in hunger, and against militarization that displaces entire communities? To condemn the people’s resistance while excusing the system that produces their misery is the highest form of hypocrisy. In truth, the people’s militant response is not only understandable, it is just and it is rightful, for no oppressed class in history has ever won freedom without daring to resist.

Furthermore, the violence unleashed on the Filipino youth protesters once again exposes the fascist nature of the reactionary Philippine state. Contrary to claims of a supposed “democracy” that exists in the country, what prevails in reality is a thin façade of “democratic elections” and “civil liberties” that conceals the iron rule of the landlords, and the big comprador bourgeoisie represented in the state by their bureaucrat capitalist agents. This “democracy” extends only to the ruling class while the majority of the Filipinos – the workers and peasants – are denied even the most basic rights when they dare to demand and assert change.

Lenin reminds us that “the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another.” And indeed for the oppressed, freedom of speech ends when their voices and their actions threaten the ruling class, freedom of assembly ends when their gatherings in their millions expose corruption and injustice, and freedom of association ends when their organizations challenge imperialist plunder.

Fascism in the countryside

The fascist terror of the reactionary Marcos Jr regime extends beyond the urban centers and cities. In the Philippine countryside, fascism takes the form of a relentless counterrevolutionary war. Under Marcos Jr., the fascist Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has intensified its counterrevolutionary terror among peasant communities resulting in at least 51,206 civilian victims of indiscriminate bombing, 67,024 cases of indiscriminate firing, and at least 45,097 victims of forced evacuation due to military operations.

Under the current National Action Plan on Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD) scheme, the Marcos Jr. regime engages in scorched-earth warfare, the militarization of civilian bureaucracy, and psywar operations. Bombing rice fields, strafing forests, and displacing peasants are acts of terror meant to break the backbone of the peasant masses which form the strongest support base of the people’s war. These actions are blatant violations of International Humanitarian Law, which prohibits attacks on civilians, yet the Marcos Jr. regime continues them with impunity.

Behind these bombings lies the hand of US imperialism. American advisers and funding sustain the AFP’s relentless military operations while US bases under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) serve as launch pads for surveillance and logistical support.

Why fascism intensifies

The ruling classes resort to fascism because the semicolonial and semifeudal system is in permanent crisis. The Philippines is shackled by foreign debt, import-dependent, and unable to industrialize. Land remains concentrated in the hands of a few families while millions of peasants till land they do not own. Wages are depressed, prices soar, and jobs are scarce.

Marcos Jr., as the current US puppet, has no solution but to deepen neoliberal policies: foreign investment liberalization, resource extraction, privatization of services, and massive borrowing. Coupled with the massive thievery of state resources by bureaucrat capitalists, these measures exacerbate poverty and inequality pushing more Filipinos to resist and to take up arms. And when the people resist, the ruling classes respond with outright fascist repression, which is their response to their own bankruptcy.

But the more they repress, the more resistance grows. Each act of violence unmasks the state, convincing more people to take the path of armed revolution. The youth beaten in the streets return to organize with greater determination. The peasants bombed in the fields seek refuge in the people’s army. Every atrocity brings fresh recruits to the ranks of the revolution.

The massive protests swelling in the cities are not isolated episodes of unrest, they feed into a broader resurgence of the revolutionary movement, including especially the armed struggle in the countryside. While the AFP and Marcos Jr. boast that the people’s war is in “decline,” the reality on the ground tells a different story. As long as the objective conditions that gave rise to the Philippine revolution (landlessness, poverty, foreign domination, and state violence) remain firmly in place, the armed revolution will not fade but rather will just continue to grow in strength.

Waging revolution is the only path forward

Waging the national democratic revolution is the only path forward to defeat fascist terror. History has shown us that the ruling class will never voluntarily give up their seats of power nor their machinery for violence; they will only sharpen it whenever their power is threatened.

The aim of the national democratic revolution is not simply to replace one president with another but to establish a people’s democratic government rooted in the basic alliance of workers and peasants. Such a government will expropriate the wealth of landlords and compradors, distribute land to the tillers, nationalize key industries, and assert genuine independence from US imperialism.

The people’s democratic government, built in the midst of war and sustained by the sacrifices of the masses and Red fighters, is already taking shape in the guerrilla zones of the countryside, where revolutionary organs of political power distribute land, run schools, and administer justice.

To counter fascist terror, the Filipino people must intensify their struggle in all forms: from mass protests and demonstrations in the streets, workers’ strikes, various forms of cultural resistance, and engage decisively in armed revolutionary struggle. To end state terror, the people must dismantle the old reactionary state and build their own. To secure a future free from corruption, plunder, and imperialist domination, the people must win the national democratic revolution and establish the people’s democratic government.

Marcos Jr. may wield the iron fist, but the Filipino people hold the hammer of history. And history has always shown that no fascist regime, no matter how brutal, can outlast and defeat the people’s struggle for national and social liberation.

source: NDFP

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NPA Unit Punishes AFP Intelligence Asset In Negros Occidental Province

The New People’s Army (NPA)-Southwest Negros (Armando Sumayang Jr Command) raided the house of 15th IB intelligence asset Garde Francisco in Sityo Lumbia, Barangay Kamansi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental Province on the night of October 3. For having committed numerous crimes against the revolutionary movement and the Filipino people, Francisco was killed during the raid.

Francisco was involved in three other killings of civilians, revolutionary leaders, and Red fighters by armed state forces on Negros island. He identified and tracked down the positions of comrades, which led to deliberate killings and massacres.

Among Francisco’s crimes was his role in the killing of National Democratic Front (NDF)-Negros peace consultant Ericson Acosta, and his fellow peasant leader Joseph Jimenez in Sityo Makilo, Barangay Kamansi, Kabankalan City on November 30, 2022.

The two were captured by soldiers at around 2 a.m., but the military later claimed they were killed in an encounter. Acosta was in Kabankalan City to conduct consultations on the situation of farmers and farm workers in the area and to share information about the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER).

Francisco was also involved in the state forces’ massacre of five Red fighters and one civilian in Sityo Lubi, Barangay Tabugon, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental Province on September 21, 2023. The victims were unarmed officers doing medical work.

The martyrs included Ka Rekoy (Bobby Pedro), Ka Goring (Mario Mullon), and Ka Joyce (Janice Flores). With them at the time were Ka Bravo (Alejo delos Reyes) and his then six-month pregnant wife Ka Diane (Melissa dela Peña), who was on medical leave. Also identified was tricycle driver Robin Gaitan.

Francisco was also involved in the killing of the Kabankalan 7 in Barangay Tapi, Kabankalan City on April 27. The seven martyrs were Reniel Locsin Cellon (Ka Randy), Mary Jane Magquilat (Ka Shonie), Charity Amacan (Ka Mayang), Johnrey Mejares (Ka Jai), Glenda Tinio Mejares (Ka Glendyl), Ka Pitong, and Dee Supelanas (Ka Dahlia). Supelanas was a former UP-Cebu student leader. Three of the martyrs were senior citizens and had medical conditions that hindered their mobility.

NPA-Southwest Negros spokesperson Ka Andrea Guerrero said the armed action was part of delivering justice to the victims of state attacks and also serves as a reminder to those with a “blood debt” to the revolution. “The history of your crimes will not be forgotten, and the NPA will keep fighting for justice,” she said.

She added, “It is better to live righteously than to become a military asset used only for money and temporary freedom that is never a lasting solution to the crisis of poverty and hunger.”

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NPA Unit Conducts Successful Attack On AFP Troops In Samar Province

A New People’s Army (NPA)-Western Samar (Arnulfo Ortiz Command) unit fired the first shots against the 8th ID troopers operating in Sitio San Pedro, Barangay Poblacion 3, San Jose de Buan, Samar on the afternoon of September 27. With high alertness and guerrilla readiness, the people’s army’s attack killed one soldier and injured many others.

The NPA-Western Samar reported that at 5 p.m. that day the 8th ID deployed a helicopter to retrieve its wounded soldiers. The soldiers again squandered funds the next day by flying another helicopter.

“The Samar masses fully celebrate NPA-Western Samar’s victory. This serves justice to the people who continue to suffer from the fascist 8th ID’s terrorism in Samar,” the NPA-Western Samar declared.

The unit further explained that the people’s army’s armed action all the more disproves the Marcos regime’s claims that “no guerrilla groups remain.” According to the NPA-Western Samar, “the NPA continues to grow, expand, and deeply root itself among the peasant masses in order to continue educating, organizing, and mobilizing them for the revolution.”

It added that amid the 8th ID’s focused and sustained military operations (FSMO), the NPA skillfully adapts and maneuvers to further strengthen itself and to leave the fascist enemy striking at emptiness. “The masses and the NPA in Western Samar are determined to confront and continue to frustrate the state’s fascist terrorism and advance the people’s war,” the unit said.

Source : https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/peoples-army-hit-8th-id-troops-operating-in-samar/

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NPA Unit Preemptively Strikes AFP Troops In Oriental Mindoro Province

An NPA-Mindoro (Lucio de Guzman Command) unit preemptively struck the attacking 1st IB troops in Sitio Tugas, Barangay San Vicente, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro Province on September 9. According to the unit, it immediately detected the presence of the 1st IB forces, which allowed the Red fighters to promptly prepare, position themselves, and open fire.

The battle killed a soldier and wounded two others. In their public statements, the 1st IB and 203rd IBde denied the casualties despite widespread social media posts showing their dead and wounded troops being loaded onto a helicopter.

After suffering losses, the 1st IB troopers cowardly retaliated against the civilian population near the community, carrying out bombings, shelling, and strafing on the night of September 9 until the early morning of September 10.

In fear and trauma, residents of Sitio Swerte, Tugas, and other communities were forced to evacuate. Hundreds of residents were hindered from their livelihood from fear of the military presence in the mountains.

Meanwhile, the NPA-Mindoro honored a Red fighter martyred in the battle. NPA-Mindoro spokesperson Ka Madaay Gasic said Ka Kardo was killed while bravely fighting the fascists.

Ka Kardo, 33, hails from the peasant class. He wholeheartedly served as a fighter of the oppressed masses for more than a decade of his life. “The death of a revolutionary like Ka Kardo, and of all the martyrs of the people, is as heavy as Mount Halcon,” Ka Madaay declared.

Source : https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/npa-mindoro-preemptively-strikes-advancing-1st-ib/

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NPA Unit Carries Out Successful Ambush Against AFP And CAFGU Troops In South Central Negros

A unit of the New People’s Army (NPA)-South Central Negros (Romeo Nanta Command) ambushed the elements under the 94th IB and CAFGUs operating in Sitio Balao, Barangay Tan-awan, Kabankalan City on September 4. Three fascist soldiers were wounded.

NPA unit spokesperson Ka Dionisio Magbuelas said more than three months of combat operations by the soldiers and CAFGU have sowed terror and violence in the Kabankalan City communities. Traitors to the revolution who actively collaborate with the military participated in these operations.

The 3rd ID’s statement claimed that the armed offensive of the people’s army wounded only one of its soldiers to conceal its defeat. It also spread lies that fighters of the NPA-South Central Negros were wounded.

The damage the military suffered prompted the soldiers to retaliate by terrorizing the sitios under Barangay Carol-an. The 94th IB and CAFGU fired their guns indiscriminately for almost two hours, forcing 116 households (480 individuals) from the sitios of Palawis, Balao, and Alambihod to evacuate.

As if they did not cause the the displacement, the 94th IB together with the local government of Kabankalan City hypocritically returned to Barangay Carol-an on September 5 to “distribute” food and medical services to the displaced families. The battalion also conducted “peace dialogues” with the civilians, which veiled its psywar and threats.

Source : https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/npa-south-central-negros-ambush-injures-3-soldiers-and-cafgu/

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