NDFP, CPP express solidarity and sympathy to Venezuela
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extended sympathies to and expressed solidarity with the people of Venezuela who suffered two successive major earthquakes that caused thousands of deaths with many more injuries and inflicted devastating damage to people’s home and public infrastructure.
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Duterte’s setbacks at the ICC continue
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Roa Duterte, presently detained since May 12, 2025, at the International Criminal Court’s detention center in the Hague, The Netherlands, and charged with crimes against humanity, has suffered another setback at the second status conference held last June 23, 2026.
Residents expel encamped soldiers in Sarangani as NPA resist AFP operations
Residents successfully expelled fascist soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ 105th Infantry Battalion (IB) in Sitio Green valley, Barangay Nalus, Kiamba, Sarangani. The said military unit has been carrying out a counterrevolutionary war under the guise of the Retooled Community Support Program (RSCP) for several month.
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Violence in schools reflection of corrupt social system
On June 22, 2026, an unprecedented violence occurred at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City in Eastern Visayas where two students aged 14 and 15 years used hand guns to fire dozens of shots and killed three fellow students and wounded more than a dozen others. The nation-wide outcry prompted several lawmakers of the regime and Marcos Jr. himself to push for the lowering of the age for criminal responsibility and also mandatory military training in college or ROTC, social media ban on minors, and other measures.
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Final case against the Marcos family’s ill-gotten wealth dismissed
On June 2, 2026, the Sandiganbayan (Philippines' anti-graft court) dismissed the remaining asset claims case in the long-running forfeiture case (Civil Case No. 0141) against the Marcos family.
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US “war games” as cover for counterrevolutionary operations
Together with the US, the use of the Philippines of successive “war games” as cover for counterrevolutionary operations marked by brutal violations of human rights was a factor in the Marcos regime’s failure to get a seat in the United Nation Security Council seat.
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International conference on fascism highlights growing repression in the neocolonies
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) successfully led the 6th International Theoretical Conference (ITC) on May 22–23 in Kathmandu, Nepal, bringing together nearly 200 delegates from 17 countries to examine the theme, “Fascism and Imperialism in Neocolonies in the 21st Century.”
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“Pax Silica” deal ties PH deeper into US war supply chains, groups say
Progressive groups and lawmakers in the Philippines have criticized Manila’s entry into a United States-led “Pax Silica” initiative, warning that the agreement to build a 1,620-hectare Luzon Economic Corridor for semiconductors and critical minerals risks integrating the country deeper into US strategic supply-chain and military-industrial priorities under the guise of economic development.
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Impending direct military action against Cuba by US Imperialism
A massive rally was staged by Cubans in Havana on May 22, 2026, demonstrating their unity in defending former president Raul Castro after the recent indictment against him by the US Trump regime on murder charges, reports the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) via its media organ, Ang Bayan. The US has been threatening to put Castro on trial “willingly or by other means.”
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