Julie de Lima and Coni Ledesma are two women among countless other revolutionaries at the forefront of the Filipino people’s quest for a just and lasting peace. Julie and Coni have, for the longest time stood out as representatives of the NDFP in the peace negotiations with the GRP to address landlessness, agrarian underdevelopment and industrial backwardness […]

Structural inequalities embedded in semicolonial and semifeudal Philippine society, which perpetuates a feudal-patriarchal system and culture, have long entrenched women’s marginalized position within the economy. Women workers endure low wages and precarious working environments. In the countryside, women peasants face landlessness, militarization, and displacement—conditions that undermine both their livelihoods and their security. At the same […]

Ka Uma, political officer, NPA PlatoonContribution from MAKIBAKA It was on the eve of the new millenium, in 1999, when I went to the countrysides on an integration program with the New People’s Army (NPA). I was 20 years old then, a student at the university, and was already a member of the underground Communist […]

A series of reports from various commands of the New People’s Army (NPA) detail intensified armed encounters across the Philippine countryside in the first quarter of 2026, marked by rapid-response offensives, defensive maneuvers, and punitive actions against fascist military elements and intelligence assets. On January 1, in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro, a unit of […]

NOTE: This is an excerpt from the full tribute article which can be accessed via josemariasison.com Jose Maria Sison, or as many of you knew him, Ka Joma, was born from one of the richest families in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, the sixth of seven surviving children, on February 8, 1939. Today would have been his 87th birthday. In […]

Maria Lorena Morelos Barros, or Lorie as she was fondly called, was born on 18 March 1948 in Baguio City, Philippines. She graduated magna cum laude in Anthropology at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.  In April 1970, together with other young women revolutionaries, she co-founded MAKIBAKA or Malayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan (Free Movement of New Women), the first national […]

This morning Little Comrade gave me a flower’s bud I look at it now remembering you, Felix, dear friend and comrade and all the brave sons and daughters of our suffering land whose death makes our blades sharper gives our bullets surer aim. How like this pure white bud are our martyrs fiercely fragrant with […]