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Attacking AFP/PNP troops suffered 18 casualties within the first month of 2020

AFP and PNP troops suffered no less than eighteen (18) casualties in the course of their simultaneous combat operations against the New People’s Army-North Eastern Mindanao Region (NPA-NEMR) and the

Police and military officers are splitting into pro-Duterte and anti-Duterte groups

We understand that the killer Espenido should not be in the Duterte drug list because he belongs to the Duterte drug syndicate. The split among pro-Duterte and anti-Duterte police officers

50th Anniversary of First Quarter Storm (FQS) celebrated in the Netherlands

Dozens of young and senior activists gathered in Utrecht, the Netherlands on 15 February to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Philippines’ First Quarter Storm of 1970 – a series

Duterte continues US military control of the Philippines despite VFA termination notice

The VFA notice of termination takes effect after 180 days. The people cannot be sure that Duterte will not change his mind within that lengthy period. Previously, Duterte postured about

OPAPP has long been irrelevant

The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) has long been irrelevant in the peace process. It has lately been very vocal in opposing the resumption of

‘Joma’ and friends commemorate 50th anniversary of the FQS

NDFP chief political consultant, Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, led several Utrecht-based First Quarter Storm veterans today in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the First Quarter Storm (FQS), described as an

On Duterte blaming the revolutionary response of the people to intolerable oppression and exploitation

Duterte is wrong in blaming the revolutionary movement movement for the gross underdevelopment of the Philippines, widespread unemployment and mass poverty. The revolutionary movement is the consequence of and response

MCC-NPA confiscates firearms in Kabankalan City

The Apolinario Gatmaitan Command of the New People’s Army (AGC-NPA) Regional Operation Command in Negros Island commended its South-Central Negros Guerrilla Front for a successful police action in Kabankalan City,

Militarist hawks sabotage peace talks and oppose social and economic reforms

National Security Adviser Hermogenes C. Esperon, Jr. and Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito G. Galvez Jr. recently weighed in on the possible resumption of peace talks between the Philippine government (GRP)