Makabayan bloc’s consistent ‘no’ votes upheld by landmark Supreme Court ruling
The consistent “No” votes of progressive Makabayan Bloc lawmakers against the 2024 and 2025 General Appropriations Acts (GAA) have been fully vindicated. The Supreme Court of the Philippines, in its landmark October 20, 2026, decision, declared unconstitutional the said acts, as well as specific special provisions governing unprogrammed appropriations in the 2026 GAA.
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Progressive and revolutionary groups denounce AFP abuses and incursion of foreign forces
Progressive and revolutionary groups denounced the US-Marcos’s escalation of various forms of the military aggression against the people, including construction of foreign bases, in dozens of towns and villages in the Visayas and Mindanao.
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New chapters of Compatriots-NDFP formed in Australia, US
Compatriots-NDFP, the revolutionary organization of Filipinos overseas recently announced the formation of two new chapters in Australia and the United States.
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AFP commits heinous violation of IHL by shooting pregnant NPA hors de combat
The AFP, a habitual violator of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), has committed another heinous war crime. This time shooting and abducting a pregnant Red fighter on medical leave.
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Protests and opposition to foreign defense agreements in the Philippines
On October 5, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN)-UK released a statement urging President Marcos Jr. to recognize that “the Filipino people are not pawns for imperialist wars.” The group raised grave concerns over deepening economic and defense ties between Manila and London. These include a newly signed framework granting access to £5 billion (~₱419 billion) in UK Export Finance, as well as ongoing negotiations for a UK–Philippine Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA).
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Ever growing people’s armed movement indicated by successive incidents
Multiple encounters between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) have been reported in the past couple of weeks from all over the Philippines indicating the continuing growth of the revolutionary armed forces.
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NPA-Leyte launches two consecutive counter-ambush actions against fascist 93rd IB
The New People’s Army (NPA)-Leyte Island (Mt. Amandewin Command) launched a counter-ambush and harassment operation against the fascist troops of the 93rd Infantry Battalion operating in Baybay City, Leyte last September 8 and 10. In two consecutive tactical offensives, at least four fascist soldiers were killed while others were wounded.
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NDF-Eastern Visayas call for ouster of US troops and rejection of Pacific Partnership
Revolutionary forces in Eastern Visayas have called for the ouster of US and other foreign troops in Tacloban City, the capital of Leyte province south of Manila. Nearly a thousand US and other foreign troops were conducting the third leg of the Pacific Partnership 2026 – a two-week military exercise supposedly for “regional security” and “disaster response”.
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Resistance intensifies against Luzon Economic Corridor and Pax Silica projects
Protests erupted outside the Grand Hyatt Manila in Bonifacio Global City on September 10, where President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. attended the inaugural Luzon Economic Corridor (LEC) Investment Forum. Organized by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), hundreds demonstrated against the forum, calling it a sellout of Philippine sovereignty and national resources to American and Japanese capitalists.
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Int’l Tribunal finds USA and Israel guilty of ecocide, forced starvation, genocide
The November 30 mass protest is just the beginning
Alternative program to replace Marcos-Duterte presented
CPP calls on solidarity groups to expose US-Marcos counterrevolutionary war
Pressure mounts as Filipino migrants face escalating exploitation, detention, and deportations
CPP calls for ending reign of thieves by revolution
Filipino peasants' struggle highlighted in recent FFPS webinar "Land is Life"