|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 10, 2014 5:32:56 GMT
7 soldiers, cop, militiaman wounded in clash with NPA in Agusan del Sur
By: Philippine News Agency January 10, 2014 1:07 PM  MANILA, Philippines -- Seven soldiers, a policeman and a militiaman were wounded in a clash with New People's Army fighters in Barangay Balit, San Luis town, Agusan del Sur early Friday.
Captain Christian Uy, spokesman of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, said troops of the 26th Infantry Battalion and personnel of the provincial police’s Public Safety Company were on their way back from serving an arrest warrant for Nelson Lugpatan Campos, of Sitio Kipuyag, Barangay San Pedro, when they were fired on by seven rebels around 1:50 a.m., triggering a 45-minute firefight.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 10, 2014 11:27:39 GMT
Activists simultaneously unfurl CPP streamers
Activists in the Northeastern Mindanao Region (NEMR) simultaneously and coordinatedly unfurled CPP streamers, painted slogans and put up revolutionary posters in three of the region’s cities (Butuan, Surigao and Tandag) as well as in all of NEMR’s 52 towns last December 26.
According to initial reports, the activists succeeded in displaying 200 streamers in towns and other populated areas of the regions. Three out of the 20 streamers unfurled in the cities were three meters long. A hundred and fifty red flags were posted in municipal buildings and population centers, while streamers bearing revolutionary slogans were cast afloat in major rivers. Leaflets with the CPP statement on its 45th anniversary were scattered in areas frequented by the public, with the Party message read over radio stations in the region. Activists were also mobilized for “text brigades.”
Meanwhile, Party members, activists and supporters of the revolutionary movement marched along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on December 26, waving CPP and NDFP flags and unfurling streamers emblazoned with revolutionary slogans. Earlier, some 500 activists likewise marched along busy Carriedo St. in Quiapo, Manila on December 19 to mark the Party’s anniversary. A short cultural presentation was held before the lightning rally ended.
A similar lightning rally was also conducted in Cubao, Quezon City.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 10, 2014 12:48:30 GMT
Celebration in Sierra Madre
Hundreds of people from various places gathered on December 26 in a guerrilla front in the Southern Tagalog (ST) portion of the Sierra Madre to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines. The Sierra Madre, which winds through the provinces of Cagayan, Quezon, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Bulacan, Aurora and Nueva Ecija is not only Luzon’s longest mountain range but an area with a long revolutionary history as well.
In the Sierra Madre, a program was held with the local Party unit calling for the intensification of the struggle against the US-Aquino regime until its ouster and for the further advance of armed struggle in the region. The revolutionary forces in the region are aware of the daunting challenges that lie ahead of them, especially in confronting the counterrevolutionary and antipeople Oplan Bayanihan of the US-Aquino regime. The Red fighters lit candles to salute comrades who had lost their lives for the revolution.
In a general statement, the regional Party committee in Southern Tagalog presented the cumulative victories achieved by the revolutionary movement in the region which serve as the significant foundation for the region’s contribution to advancing people’s war in the coming years.
The CPP-ST cited the active role of the region’s forces in exposing and opposing Benigno Aquino III’s antipeople and anti-democratic regime. Its progressive organizations were at the forefront of rallies, pickets, people’s camps, caravans, symbolic protests and other forms of mass actions in Metro Manila in 2013.
As a result, about 15,000 were added to the membership of open people’s organizations. Organizers in the open and underground mass movement have been able to overcome the narrow-based, piecemeal and shallow method of organizing and have learned how to correctly combine fast-paced and broad-based organizing and solidly building the underground movement. The integration of urban-based activists in the armed struggle is picking up once more. Bigger numbers are expressing readiness to join the New People’s Army (NPA) and the armed struggle.
Along with the advance of the mass movement, the NPA and the revolutionary masses continue to thwart the brutality of Oplan Bayanihan in the guerrilla fronts. NPA units are persevering in their task of launching tactical offensives against weak sections of operating enemy troops. They are rapidly regaining their strength and step-by-step, restoring tasks to their former level in guerrilla fronts that had experienced setbacks in the past. NPA units are warmly welcomed in areas being revisited and recovered; and the masses express their desire to be organized again and their revolutionary mass organizations rebuilt.
The guerrilla fronts of Rizal and North Quezon continue to reap gains in resisting and thwarting the enemy’s brutal search and destroy operations. Guerrilla forces meted heavy blows on the combat operations of the 16th and 78th IBs and the PNP-SAF from May to June and in November in the interior villages of General Nakar, Quezon and in the towns of Tanay and Montalban in Rizal.
Meanwhile, NPA units in Mindoro island dealt multiple blows on operating enemy troops.
Guerrilla fronts in Palawan island as well as in Batangas, Laguna and South Quezon-Bondoc Peninsula also continue to achieve gains.
Even amid the relentless and brutal havoc being wreaked by Oplan Bayanihan in the guerrilla fronts, the Party continues to advance in building the revolutionary mass base in the countryside. In guerrilla fronts severely affected by the enemy’s terror and suppression campaigns, the people have gradually overcome their fear and begun to organize themselves into open and underground organizations and launch antifeudal struggles.
In areas undergoing consolidation and where gains in agrarian revolution have been achieved, full-fledged mass organizations are being built anew as well as people’s militia and self-defense units. Even in areas that had been devastated by the enemy, but where the peasant masses enjoy benefits due to revolutionary land reform such as free land distribution, it is the masses themselves who look for ways to link up with the NPA units. It is a measure of the depth of the revolutionary movement’s influence—one which could never be destroyed by whatever psywar or violence the mercenary AFP or PNP could unleash.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 10, 2014 13:56:10 GMT
Oplan Bayanihan fails in Negros
Oplan Bayanihan has failed to crush the revolutionary movement in Negros despite its having been made a national priority by the US-Aquino regime, said Juanito Magbanua II, spokesperson of the Apolinario (Boy) Gatmaitan Command of the New People’s Army in Negros in relation to the 45th anniversary of the reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
With the all-out implementation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) “triad operations” consisting of intelligence, “civil-military” and combat operations in the countryside and urban areas, the regime has mobilized the entire local government and deployed to Negros an entire Civil Military Operations battalion and the bulk of the Intelligence Service of the AFP (ISAFP) in Western Visayas. For a more zealous intelligence build-up against the armed movement and the legal democratic movement in the urban areas, the Military Intelligence Battalion (MIB) and the Military Intelligence Company have been stationed in Bacolod City.
There have been up to 39 companies of the Philippine Army, Division Reconnaissance Company (DRC), Scout Rangers, Regional Mobile Group (RMG), Provincial Mobile Group (PMG), CMO and 12th IB CAFGU Handler deployed in Negros since 2010. This is aside from forces of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Special Action Force (SAF) deployed in the island’s four guerrilla fronts.
Despite the deployment of such a huge enemy force, the AFP has failed to destroy even a single guerrilla front in Negros. Instead, the theater of war has expanded for the armed revolutionary forces.
Mass organizations are being revitalized. The mass base continues to be expanded, while being assidously consolidated by forming and operating barrio organizing committees and full-fledged mass organizations in many villages. The revolutionary forces are now focused on building the municipal chapters of full-fledged mass organizations. A number of barrio revolutionary committees are ready to be formed.
The mass base has been steeled in antifeudal, anti-imperialist and antifascist mass struggles, among them the establishment of land cultivation areas (LCA) which have gained momentum and launching struggles to raise the wages of farmers and farm workers and raise the farm-gate prices of agricultural products, antimining struggles and campaigns against hunger and landgrabbing.
Through small and big tactical offensives launched by the Red fighters in the region, the guerrilla army has been able to accumulate enough high-powered rifles to arm an NPA company and inflict at least 200 casualties on the enemy. Thus, the morale of NPA Red fighters remains high as they fight the mercenary troops of the AFP and the class enemies.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 10, 2014 14:02:12 GMT
Gains in Southwest Negros
The New People’s Army (NPA) in the Southwest Negros Front has maintained its size despite intense military operations, the deceptive Peace and Development Program, the enemy’s surrender drives and other grand and intricate psywar operations of the reactionary government, said Ka Andrea Guerrero, spokesperson of the front’s Armando Sumayang, Jr. Command.
The membership of the people’s militia continues to grow. The people’s militia assists the NPA in propaganda work among the masses, in mobilizing and organizing them and in launching tactical offensives. With the organized masses and allies’ active participation, the NPA was able to mete punishment on the destructive Philex Mining Corporation. Basic tactical offensives were launched against the 47th IB, seizing five high-powered firearms, including a K3 machine gun, rounds of ammunition and military equipment.
More than a thousand people have benefited from continuing mass struggles to raise the price of coffee, hike the wages of farmers and farm workers, till and develop idle lands, dagyaw (cooperation) and the antimining movement, among others. These served as the wellspring of Red fighters for the NPA and members for the Party.
The farmers also continued struggling against the seizure of their land by capitalist investors in oil palm plantations.
The peasant masses also courageously fought landlords such as the Novero family in Barangay Dancalan, Ilog and father and son Pablito “Jean” and John Paul Sola of Barangay Camansi, Kabankalan who have been seizing their land. The Solas enjoy the protection of the Regional Public Safety Maneuver Battalion (ROSMB) which is also based in Barangay Camansi.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 10, 2014 14:27:46 GMT
SMR holds relevant celebration of Party anniversary
On December 26, Party committees, units of the New People’s Army (NPA) and the revolutionary people of Southern Mindanao Region successfully celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
In Subregion 4, the celebration was doubly significant as it achieved gains in building the guerrilla base and advancing agrarian revolution in their area of operations.
The celebration was begun at dawn with the gathered fighters and peasants flying 45 paper lanterns. The lanterns symbolized 45 years of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ close guidance over the revolutionary movement in the area.
The attendees likewise paid tribute to the martyrs of the revolution. A poem of salute was read and dedicated to the Party. Earlier, the wedding of five pairs of comrades had been held—two from the NPA and three from the local Party branch.
By 8 a.m., five platoons of NPA regulars and a platoon of the people’s militia’s command unit from seven villages held a parade of colors. This was followed by a fancy drill performed by a platoon. A program was held where a representative from the Subregion’s Party Committee described the current situation, the gains achieved by the revolutionary movement in the area in 2013 and the challenges in sustaining and further advancing the revolution’s tasks in the coming years.
One of the subregion’s most striking advances last year was the establishment in close succession of organs of political power in its guerrilla base. This was accomplished despite intense militarization in the area.
The establishment of barrio revolutionary committees (BRC), and eventually, the municipal revolutionary committee (MRC) were a response to the Party’s call in the region to fast-track the building and consolidation of the guerrilla base to further advance the revolution. At the start of the year, NPA units established full-fledged mass organizations of the peasantry, women and youth from the barrio level towards the municipal level. Afterwards, the BRC and its committees were rapidly established. By the second half of the year, the coordinating units of the people’s militia at the municipal level had been established, and by the end of the year, it became possible to establish the MRC.
In these bases, a widespread food production campaign was launched as an alternative to the people’s usual livelihood which relied on selling wood aside some limited agriculture. At present, all the villages with BRCs already have communal farms. Individual farms also improved through lusong or cooperation. Because alternative sources of livelihood were available, small-scale logging has virtually disappeared.
Another of SR4’s gains was launching more than 52 tactical offensives in 2013. The enemy suffered casualties of up to a company (dead and wounded). In addition, the NPA in the subregion took seven prisoners of war. In contrast, seven were martyred and two were wounded on the NPA side.
The number of Red fighters continued to grow. In 2013, two more platoons were established in the subregion.
The day-long celebration was lively and colorful. One of the more striking activities was a championship basketball game between teams from various BRCs. The basketball competition began December 21. Teams of Red fighters also played exhibition games. Aside from basketball, volleyball and other sports competitions were held for the youth and children. These formed part of the BRCs’ sports program.
The final part of the anniversary activities was solidarity night were each village and NPA platoon performed. The various tribes also presented dances and played native musical instruments. The program ended with a native dance joined by everyone: the NPA, the masses and visitors.
In Subregion 1, more than 800 gathered to celebrate the anniversary and hail the establishment of the local MRC in their area.
According to Ka Sixto, an officer of the newly established MRC, they have many gains to celebrate, especially after the devastation wrought by typhoon Pablo in 2012.
“We were able to rise from the ruins caused by Pablo, not because of help from the reactionary government, but with the cooperation of the New People’s Army, the mass organizations and the Party,” according to Ka Sixto. The occasion is so joyous, he added, because from the very pitiful conditions during the last anniversary, the people’s situation has brightened.
Among the MRC’s gains was the operation of communal farms run by the BRC and the committees under it. After the storm, the people in the area suffered from severe hunger. But now, their communities are prospering after two harvests from their individual and communal farms. In fact, they already have a corn mill. They also have health centers, potable water systems and schools. They have also begun planting trees to regenerate the forests denuded by big logging concessionaires in the past decades.
The people are aware that their work is not over with the MRC’s establishment. Ka Sixto added that the continued expansion and consolidation of their MRC is a challenge to them, and so is extending assistance in forming other MRCs in their subregion.
“We want to win the people’s democratic revolution on the basis of the unity of the oppressed people,” he said, “in order to seize state power and establish a government that genuinely serves the poor.”
In Subregion 5, up to 400 gathered to celebrate the anniversary. A cultural presentation was held, depicting the peasant masses’ condition in the face of widespread landgrabbing, militarization, human rights violations and other effects of Oplan Bayanihan in the area.
The Central Committee’s anniversary message was discussed, with emphasis on the tasks and challenges in the coming years. The program ended with the audience collectively reading their pledge and reiterating their revolutionary standpoint and with cries of “Long live the Communist Party of the Philippines!”
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 11, 2014 7:07:22 GMT
www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2014/01/11/gov-t-troops-npa-clash-anew-northern-mindanao-322666Gov’t troops, NPA clash anew in Northern MindanaoBy Loui S. Maliza Saturday, January 11, 2014 SIX persons died while 12 others were injured in two recent separate encounters between the military and New People’s Army (NPA) in San Luis in Agusan del Sur, a statement from the New People's Army claimed Friday.Allan Juanito, spokesman of the NPA’ North Central Mindanao Regional Command, said the casualties and wounded belong the military’s 26th Infantry Battalion based in San Luis.
“The NPA suffered no casualties,” he added.
“On January 9 at around 2:00 am in Km. 5 barangay Balit, San Luis, six were killed and seven were wounded among another column of 26th IB troops when an NPA team harassed their truck while on their way to the battalion headquarters in Talacogon. The enemy platoon vehicle was negotiating a rough road when Red fighters fired at the rear side of the vehicle.”
No casualties
But in a text message sent to this paper Friday afternoon, Captain Christian Uy, spokesman of the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division, denied the NPA's claim and said only seven law enforcers were wounded.
“Nine were wounded in the troops: seven enlisted military personnel, one police officer, and a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) Active Auxiliary (CAA),” Uy said.
Juanito said the NPA fighters belonging to the Western Agusan Norte-Agusan Sur sub-regional command launched two offensives against the troops of the 26IB on January 8 and 9, as the "military operations continue despite the suspension of military operations (Somo).”
The Somo, Juanito said, is supposed to end January 15.
Uy said the arresting team was on its way back to the 26IB camp after serving the warrant of arrest of a certain Nelson Lugpatan Campos for murder at sitio Kipuyag, barangay San Pedro, in San Luis, when they were fired upon by the guerrillas.
Uy said around seven NPA fighters engaged the government soldiers in a firefight that lasted around 45 minutes, “before the guerillas fled the area.”
The Maoist fighters accused the military for violating the temporary ceasefire.
Juanito said the military operations continue in San Luis, Agusan del Sur; San Fernando and Impasug-ong in Bukidnon; and Gingoog, Claveria and Binuangan in Misamis Oriental.
The NPA, the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), accused the 26IB for lying.
“(But) in reality, their combat operations in the barrios of San Luis started on January 2, 11:00 p.m. A hundred and ten troops were mobilized simultaneously for the operations, wherein a column of 68 troops entered barangay San Pedro. Another column of 42 entered Km. 21, barangay Don Alejandro, San Luis.”
The guerillas said for a week the military scoured the forested and interior areas hunting the NPA down. “And their search turned out to be for nothing,” Juanito said.
Juanito added the NPA fighters pursued the troops instead as they headed back to their base.
“On January 8, around 11:35 AM, an NPA team harassed a column of the 26IB climbing a steep bank in Mahaba River, going toward Km. 27, Side 2, barangay Mahayahay, San Luis. Five were wounded among the troops, including their guide, a certain ‘Biane,’ a CAFGU member allegedly known for his extortion activities on small-scale loggers in San Luis.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 11, 2014 16:11:00 GMT
6 killed, 12 wounded 26th IB troops in NPA harassment operations in San Luis, Agusan del Sur
January 09, 2014  Alan Juanito
Spokesperson
NPA North Central Mindanao Regional Operations Command (Julito Tiro Command) A week before the scheduled end of the Suspension of Military Operations (SOMO) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines this January 15, the New People’s Army under the Western Agusan Norte-Agusan Sur Sub-Regional Command launched two offensive actions against operating troops of the 26th Infantry Battalion in San Luis, Agusan Sur on January 8 and 9. Six were killed and 12 were wounded among the reactionary soldiers in the two incidents while the NPA suffered no casualties.
Despite the AFP’s SOMO, military operations continue relentlessly in San Luis, Agusan Sur, San Fernando and Impasug-on in Bukidnon, and Gingoog, Claveria and Binuangan in Misamis Oriental.
In San Luis, particularly, where the open celebration for the 45th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines last December 26 was held, where thousands of masses, allies and media people took part of the celebration, the 26th IB immediately put up a checkpoint near their Battalion Headquarters in Talacogon. For more than two weeks now, the checkpoint has been a nuisance to local citizens in preparations for the New Year festivities, as well as to their freedom of movement.
Maj. Canacero of the 26th IB lies when he tells the public that their troops were merely assisting the PNP in serving out a warrant of arrest to a certain criminal suspect in Kipuyag, Brgy. San Pedro, San Luis. In reality, their combat operations in the barrios of San Luis started on January 2, 11:00 PM. A hundred and ten troops were mobilized simultaneously for the operation, wherein a column of 68 troops entered Brgy. San Pedro. Another column of 42 entered Km. 21, Brgy. Don Alejandrom, San Luis. For about a week, they have scoured forested and interior vicinity hunting the NPA down.
And their search turned out to be for nothing. The subjects of their pursuit swiftly pursued them on their way back to base. January 8, around 11:35 AM, an NPA team harassed a column of the 26th IB climbing a steep bank in Mahaba River, going towards Km. 27, Side 2, Brgy. Mahayahay, San Luis. Five were wounded among the fascist troops, including their guide, Biane, a CAFGU member infamous for his extortion activities on small-scale loggers in San Luis.
January 9, around 2:00 AM, in Km. 5, Brgy. Balit, San Luis, six were killed and seven were wounded among another column of 26th IB troops when an NPA team harassed their 6×6 truck while on their way to Battalion Headquarters in Talacogon. The enemy platoon vehicle was negotiating a rough road when Red fighters fired at the rear side of the vehicle.
At the onset of year 2014, the initial offensive actions of the NPA show that all units in North Central Mindanao Region are prepared to face the relentless assault of the reactionary AFP and all counterrevolutionary forces. |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 11, 2014 16:25:11 GMT
The AFP’s unilateral somo — a complete farce
January 11, 2014
Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris)
Spokesperson
NDFP Mindanao Chapter
In yet another record-breaking attempt to deceive the revolutionary movement and the people, the US-Aquino regime’s AFP has declared a Suspension of Offensive Military Operations (SOMO) from 21 December 2013 to 15 January 2014 that, so far, has turned out to be a total sham.
Clearly, the objectives of the SOMO have been intended: 1) to prevent the successful celebration across the country of the 45th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP-MLM) on Dec. 26; 2) to dupe the NPA into lowering its guard so that it can take advantage of it and attack NPA units or arrest revolutionary cadres, including NDFP peace consultants as it did in their past SOMO declarations; 3) to provoke the NPA to engage in fire fight within the 6-day period of the NPA’s Christmas and New Year unilateral ceasefire and attempt to isolate the NPA by way of its propaganda advantage in the media; and, 4) to project political and moral ascendancy over and against the much shorter unilateral ceasefire of the NPA.
The 45th CPP anniversary celebrations on December 26 have been marred by countless provocative AFP violations, such as setting up checkpoints at strategic entry and exit points that led towards places they suspected to be the site for the celebrations. The NPA units, however, together with the masses, allies and media persons daringly and creatively have managed to elude AFP surveillance and successfully held the 45th anniversary celebrations in different parts of Mindanao.
In one incident, the 26th IB’s spot checkpoint in Talacogon, Agusan del Sur has held and harassed the media men and other visitors coming from the celebration, and released them only after certain personnel from the media have trained their camera onto the AFP soldiers manning the checkpoint.
Subsequently, from January 2 to 8, 2014, in violation of the AFP’s own ceasefire, the 26th IB PA has launched a three-column military operation against the NPA unit that hosted the 45th CPP anniversary celebration, covering several barangays and communities within the vicinity of the anniversary site, including forestal hinterland communities as far as 30 km inland along the Agusan river banks.
The NPA units have fought back by deploying several sniper and harassment teams. As a result, at 11:35 AM of Jan 8, one NPA team caught up with a platoon column of the 26th IB as it crossed the steep banks of Mahaba Creek, Brgy. Mahayahay, San Luis, Agusan del sur, wounding five 26th IB soldiers. Then at 2:00 AM the next day, the second AFP column was ambush-harassed in Km. 5, Brgy. Balit, San Luis, Agusan del Sur by another NPA team, killing 6 soldiers and wounding 7 more, including a CAFGU member. Yet Maj. Canacero of the 26th IB has had the gall to claim that they were not launching offensive military operations during the period covered by their declared SOMO, and worse, denied they suffered fatalities.
In all hypocrisy, AFP officials have claimed that RSOT/COPD operations are on-going to “keep the peace and promote development” in many barrios when in truth these are nothing but psy-war operations meant to harass community-folk, identify local activists, destroy the revolutionary unity among the people, conduct surveillance operations, forcibly extract information of military value, conduct security combat patrol, and set the stage for more intensive brutal combat operations. These RSOT/COPD operations completely violate the spirit and letter of the CAHRHIL and international protocols as evidenced by its armed troops’ occupation of civilian residence, barangay and community schools, health and day care centres. They also introduce the corrupting cultural influence such as use of illicit drugs, impregnate women in the locality, gambling, and others.
The AFP TRIAD concept of operations, composed of intelligence, RSOT/COPD and combat operations, have continued to be in full swing without let up since November last year until at present, even during their own SOMO, in many areas in Mindanao. For instance in Bukidnon, several hundreds of AFP troops have been deployed for offensive operations in the hinterland communities of Brgy. Jagpa, Impasug-ong (six 6X6 trucks of fully armed soldiers); Sitio Ulayanon, Calabugao (3 6X6 truckloads); Sitio Pilot, Calabugao, where 25 soldiers occupied the barrio day-care center and the local elementary school; Brgy Bulonay (25 soldiers); Sitio Namnam (2 columns); as well as in barrios in San Fernando, Quezon, and Malabalay City. The same are also on-going in the interior barangays of Claveria, Binuangan and Gingoog City, all of Misamis Oriental.
Similar offensive AFP operations have also been going on in some far flung barangays and communities in the provinces of Southern, Northeastern, Far Southern and Western Mindanao Regions. Violating their own SOMO had been the trademark of AFP SOMOs in the past years.
These offensive AFP operations have also been designed to provoke the NPA to a fire fight during the period covered by the NPA ceasefire, and charge the latter of ceasefire violations. This has always been their intention as was shown when the NPA unit launched a punitive action on the very day of the 45th CPP anniversary celebrations against operating troops of the 8th IB. In direct violation of CARHRHIL and international conventions, these troops occupied the health and day-care centres of Sitio Ulayanon in Calabugao, impose resource control to prevent the local masses together with NPA units from having their own celebrations.
The AFP has falsely claimed moral and political ascendancy with regard to their 21-day ceasefire juxtaposed to the NPA’s 6-day ceasefire. In truth, however, the declaration of the AFP SOMO is purely a deception and there has never been a real suspension of AFP offensive operations on the ground. On the other hand, the ceasefire declaration of the NPA is intended to allow people to freely and safely celebrate the yuletide season; it has never been declared as a reciprocation of an expectedly fake AFP SOMO.
We laud NPA units who have heroically defended themselves and the masses from the treachery of the AFP’s so-called SOMO.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 13, 2014 4:07:20 GMT
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
marked 45th anniversary
in various guerrilla fronts in Mindanao
last December 26, 2013.
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 14, 2014 5:47:24 GMT
End of Ceasefire Declation in Eastern Visayas
January 12, 2014
CPP Eastern Visayas Regional Committe
 Executive Committee-Regional Committee
Eastern Visayas
Communist Party of the Philippines
The Executive Committee-Regional Committee in Eastern Visayas of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) declares the end of the two-month unilateral ceasefire that began Nov. 12, 2013 in solidarity with the plight of the people after typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).
The ceasefire ended at 0000H of January 12, 2014.
All units of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Eastern Visayas may now resume offensive military operations against the regular and paramilitary forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).
The NPA is commendable for displaying its high level of discipline in keeping the unilateral ceasefire. Despite the continuing attacks and provocations of the US-Aquino regime, the ceasefire was never lifted in deference to the sufferings of the people and in order to make sure that immediate relief would be delivered to them. During the period of ceasefire, the NPA units in their respective areas of responsibility mobilized to help the people repair their communities, facilitated the delivery of relief, and organized and mobilized the people to demand accountability from the US-Aquino regime over its gross unconcern for the people’s welfare.
On the other hand, the AFP is entirely despicable for continuing military operations even right after typhoon Yolanda, when the people were still reeling from disaster, and during their so-called unilateral ceasefire in December 2013. On Nov. 25, 2013, the 87th IB attacked an NPA camp in San Jorge, Western Samar and captured Comrade Renato Baleros and Comrade Vangie Colinayo, who were directing NPA relief operations in the province. On Dec. 11, 2013, an offensive operation by the 8th Infantry Division in Oras, Eastern Samar was foiled by the active defense of the NPA, which inflicted five killed and three wounded on the enemy side; there were no casualties on the side of the NPA. In the same town the following day, Dec. 12, an NPA unit had an encounter with 8th ID troops; a soldier was wounded while the NPA had no casualty.
The 8th ID troops continued their operations even after their so-called ceasefire from Dec. 16, 2013 to Jan. 16, 2014. The NPA reports soldiers were still on combat operations up to Dec. 25 in Las Navas, Northern Samar. Meanwhile, on Dec. 27, in the area between Brgy. Libertad and Brgy. Mahayag, Ormoc City, Leyte, 19th IB troops staged a mock firefight complete with live gunfire, and then claimed to the media that they had been attacked by the NPA, which was accused of violating its own ceasefire. In fact, there was no NPA unit in the area at that time; the said firefight is purely psywar by the military.
The CPP in the region is well aware the US-Aquino regime intends from 2014-2015 to intensify its Oplan Bayanihan military campaign in Eastern Visayas. The NPA is directed to carry out intensive and extensive guerrilla warfare based on an ever widening and deepening mass base. The revolutionary armed struggle is in solidarity with the mass struggles to oust the US-Aquino regime over its incompetence, corruption and brutality in connection with the typhoon Yolanda victims as well as other issues. Bringing down the corrupt, fascist and puppet regime will significantly contribute to the overthrow of the entire reactionary ruling system in the long run.# |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 16, 2014 8:22:50 GMT
SPEECH AT FORUM & LAUNCH OF 5-BOOK SERIES,
CONTINUING THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle
December 22, 2013
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 16, 2014 12:18:22 GMT
CPP laughs off AFP claim of wiping out NPA in Pampanga
January 16, 2014  Communist Party of the Philippines
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today dismissed claims by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that it has decimated the New People’s Army (NPA) in Pampanga, asserting that NPA units are operating in the outskirts and that revolutionary base organizing work continues to be carried out in the province.
“The fact is, since 2010, the NPA in Central Luzon tactically shifted its forces to focus on building its guerrilla base areas in the mountainous areas of the region. Its forces in the Pampanga plains were temporarily redeployed, not so much as a result of AFP operations, but as a planned course of action in line with building the base areas.”
The CPP said units of the NPA have been building base areas in the the Sierra Madre mountain range straddling Eastern Bulacan, Aurora and Nueva Ecija, the Zambales-Tarlac-Pangasinan mountain ranges as well as the mountainous and coastal areas of Bataan to Bulacan. From the mountainous base areas, cadres of the CPP and Red fighters continue to deploy units to the plains of Pampanga, as well as in other provinces to build CPP branches and revolutionary mass organizations.
“Using the guerrilla base areas as rear, and with the help of the peasant masses in the plains, the NPA command in the Central Luzon can launch regular and special tactical offensives in Pampanga and elsewhere when the enemy least expects it, starting with weak and detached units of the AFP and PNP, the armed goons and security agencies of the big landlords and big compradors in order to disarm these and disable them from further causing harm against the people.”
The CPP contradicted the statement by the AFP that Pampanga is now poised for economic progress. The statement of the AFP that the province is “ready for further development” is simply “an invitation for foreign companies and their local partners to grab land and oppress and exploit the working class and peasantry.”
“The workers and peasant masses of Pampanga province continue to suffer from intolerably oppressive and exploitative conditions in the big haciendas, sugar centrals, in the lahar quarrying areas, as well as in the so-called special economic zones,” said the CPP. “Tens of thousands of peasant masses are being displaced as a result of widespread land grabbing by big landlords and so-called developers who are in league with the ruling Aquino regime.”
“A case in point is that of Hacienda Dolores in Porac town where thousands of peasant families are being driven away from their land by the big comprador-owned Ayala Land and its cohorts by using the military and police to suppress the peasant masses,” said the CPP. Just last Sunday, a peasant leader, Arman Padino, was killed, and another wounded, after being fired upon by the armed goons of the Ayalas. Peasant activists who oppose the landgrabbing by the Ayalas are being subjected harassed both with trumped up criminal cases and armed threats.
“The peasants and workers of Pampanga continue to wage mass struggles to advance their democratic cause and are ever desirous of waging revolutionary armed struggle. Their best sons and daughters continue to join the New People’s Army.”
|
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 18, 2014 16:34:31 GMT
The Filipino people had long wanted to make Hugo pay for his crimes
January 06, 2014 Julian Paisano
Spokesperson
NPA Panay Regional Command (Coronacion "Waling-Waling" Chiva Command)
Demetrio Capilastique Jr aka Hugo was gunned down last December 30, 2013 by a team of New People’s Army (NPA) as he resisted the Red fighters who were assigned to arrest him. The arrest of Capilastique was ordered by the duly-constituted people’s court in Panay in order for him to face charges of multiple murder, abduction and mutiny.
The 15 murdered victims or so mentioned in the previous statement were civilians who got in the way of the RPA’s gangster ways. He would have been arrested first but his armed resistance sealed his fate. The arrest would have resulted in getting information from him as to the whereabouts of Luisa Posa and NIlo Arado, two legal activists who were abducted by the AFP intelligence and supported by Hugo’s RPA-ABB in its execution. The military and RPA were both culpable in the said abduction and people in the military are yet to be held accountable for the abduction. Last December 10, 2007, we had issued a statement on the abduction and the entire list of those indicted.
Nevertheless, Hugo was an armed paramilitary commander of the AFP’s special civilian armed auxiliary force. Found in his belt bag were hand grenades and a Taurus pistol. The RPA-ABB is actively engaged in supporting the military operation against the NPA in Janiuay-Lambunao- Leon-Tubungan, Miag-ao-San Joaquin and Ibajay-Pandan. As such, the RPA-ABB is an armed hostile organization against the NPA. And the RPA commander, as such, was a legitimate military target for the NPA. Rustico Cutanda, aka Rolly, pretended to be the victim as he roll-called Mokong, Arce, Joven—all RPA operatives who were killed in military actions by the NPA before Hugo. What he failed to mention was that they were engaged in armed operations against the NPA together with regular troops of the AFP. They became legitimate military targets therefore—or did Cutanda pretend to fail to notice that there’s an ongoing people’s war wherein the NPA defends itself and the people against recurring attacks by the military including armed attacks from the remnants of the RPA. Cutanda himself insisted that they are still a ”revolutionary” army different from Major Tiongson’s allegations that the RPA has been transformed to a civilian organization of “Kapatiran” of the Tabara faction.
Yet Cutanda claims that the NPA resorted to arms and killed them just because the RPA split from the reaffirmist CPP-NPA due to ideological differences. Definitely, the Party’s ideological and political line is an ocean apart from the RPA gangsterist, surrenderist-collaborator line of march to the side of the enemy. They wave the flag of ‘socialism’ that they learned from CIA literature. The better guage for a correct ideology is manifested by the fact that the Party, the NPA and the revolutionary masses has grown by folds since the rectification. While the RPA has folded up into grouplets that are fighting each other— like the Tabara and dela Cruz factions. We need not have to resort to arms in order for the RPA to self-destruct. Simple differences in share of the loot have resulted in RPA splits and disintegration.
The NPA did not just take action against Hugo because he left the NPA. Membership in the NPA is voluntary. As you could get in, you could get out of the NPA voluntarily and many did so without any retribution on the condition that they keep what they know in secret so as not to compromise the security of those they left behind. What Hugo did was mutiny. He not only left but instigated many more to leave, formed a separate armed group that is actively hostile to the NPA and collaborating with the enemy to attack the NPA. This is why mutiny is punishable by death.
Hugo’s crimes were not arbitrarily compiled. Each murder and abduction were investigated and sufficient evidence by witnesses were gathered from the very start. For instance, the RPA, as instigated by their intelligence handlers, has now began sowing bloody intrigue by identifying their supposed suspects among the legal mass leaders and activists. Such intrigue sets up these people to simple harassment or to justify murder by RPA retaliatory action. This is noted and remembered/recorded through the years when such intrigue will result in fascist attacks on innocent victims. This intrigue was what the military started with in setting up the abduction of Luisa Posa and Nilo Arado; by branding them, legal activists, as ‘communist terrorists’ .
The national democratic movement has a long memory and does not forget. While it cannot protect all the people that the RPA or their military handlers victimize, it can surely exact justice when justice is due. Bde Gen Quiapo would have Hugo’s victims find justice in the regime’s courts. But surely, Gen Quiapo is very much aware of the fact that a basic reason why people join the NPA is for them to exact fair, speedy justice in its people’s court that they could never find in the GRP’s courts. The Janiuay police could not even have the RPA arrested, when the latter ambushed their own policemen. The victims were just pacifying intoxicated RPA men who were abusing the local people in Patongpatong ,Janiuay . And the Butcher Gen Palparan is coddled and hidden by the very military while the supposed arresting agents look the other way. The Maguindanao massacre victims have years more to suffer the impunity of so blatant a crime. Even the Marcoses and Estrada are back in power with their plundered loot protected by Gen Quiapo’s men. So much for ‘Justice’ under the Government of the Republic of the Philippines.
Yet revolutionary justice is also judicious and It does provide for amnesty to those whose crimes are admitted and atoned for like those of General Jarque. Before his death at an age past 70, Sgt. Porfirio Cataluna who killed so many Tumandoks whom he suspected as suporters of the NPA, was granted amnesty under the same conditions and for humanitarian reasons. On the other hand, Hugo was an incorrigible example of a murderer doing ‘dirty jobs’ for the military and was an armed hostile enemy and had to pay the price for it.
His death, was celebrated not only by the national democratic movement. Tens of thousands more people all over Panay were relieved and overjoyed. Of course, if one asks them over media as to Hugo’s death, they would just keep mum because the RPA stragglers and their military handlers are still around to hound them. But they now offer more support for the NPA, the army who broke the White terror imposed by Hugo, the RPA and the armed forces of the Philippines in their localities and helped them achieve justice. |
|
|
|
Post by dodger on Jan 23, 2014 10:47:08 GMT
NPA launches punitive action against SUMIFRU in Valencia City, Bukidnon
January 23, 2014
Mamerto Bagani
Spokesperson
NPA Mt. Kitanglad Sub-Regional Command Eight equipments were paralyzed as a unit of the New People’s Army under Mt. Kitanglad Sub-regional Command launched a punitive action against the multinational plantation company Sumitomo Fruits (SUMIFRU) in Brgy. Barobo, Valencia City Bukidnon, January 18, around 10:00 PM. The Red fighters seized two firearms during the incident.
The damages incurred by SUMIFRU reportedly amount to P11 million after the NPA attacked its banana packing house and paralyzed a cargo truck, a backhoe, six assorted machines and three laptop computers. A shotgun and a .38 revolver were also seized from the company security guards.
The NPA launched the punitive action against SUMIFRU because of its anti-people activities, including land grabbing, the anti-labor and environmentally-destructive operations of their pineapple and banana plantations.
The company expansion operations, now covering more than 5,000 hectares, continue to control vast tracts of agricultural land in two cities and two municipalities in Bukidnon. Peasants and lumads were thus displaced and driven away from their lands. Many of them are enslaved by the foreign company as wage laborers.
Meanwhile, agricultural workers have long complained of wage slavery and inhumane working conditions. In 2010, workers were forced to strike against irregular payment of their wages, which now remains to be the case. They only earn a daily wage of P289 despite the millions raked by SUMIFRU in superprofits. This wage is grossly inadequate to provide for the decent living of a family, more so now with electricity rates, prices of basic commodities, gasoline and social services soaring unbridled.
With contractualization, all workers in SUMIFRU can only work for five months without assurance of a renewal. By their contractual status, all workers in SUMIFRU remain without job security, while being deprived of benefits and the right to organize trade union.
SUMIFRU also wreak havoc on the environment due to its destructive operations. Chemicals and waste from its plantations pollute the water, air and the soil. This aggravates climate change and victimizes the poor people who are most vulnerable to natural calamities. Residents near the plantation, as well as workers themselves, complain of the adverse effects of chemicals on their health. The company pays no heed even as many people are plagued with skin diseases.
This is yet another message from the revolutionary movement warning companies such as SUMIFRU to cease in their plantation expansion and the exploitation and oppression of agricultural workers and the people.
|
|
