On November 30, 2025, different sectors of the Philippine society gathered in Manila for one of the biggest rallies since the EDSA people’s uprising in 1986 that toppled Ferdinand Marcos Sr dictatorship. Simultaneous demonstrations were held in the cities of Baguio, Cebu, Bacolod, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro as well as provincial capitals all over the country and many other places in the country and abroad.
The groups and alliances that led the rallies were the Kilusang Bayan Kontra-Kurakot (KBKK) –or the “People’s Movement Against Corruption”, “Trillion Peso March Movement”, church institutions, youth and student groups, civil society coalitions and NGOs, labor unions and urban poor, and prominent individuals.
After the massive demonstrations on September 21, 2025 marking the declaration of Martial Law by the dictator Marcos Sr on the same day in 1972, and more so to protest the massive corruption in the government, students and various groups had been staging class boycott, rallies and other forms of protest actions almost every day leading to the gigantic mobilization.
The people in the rallies, enraged by the trillions of pesos in corruption in recent years in flood control and other public work projects, were not just commemorating Bonifacio Day by linking historical struggles for freedom with present-day fights against corruption. They were variously calling for the resignation of President Marcos Jr and accountability of Vice President Sara Duterte, incarceration of politicians, government bureaucrats and building contractors involved in the contract malfeasance.
A significant portion of the demonstrators led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) called for the ouster of Marcos and Duterte and pushed for a Transitional Council, while the Makabayang Kaolisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) presented the “Program for National Democracy” that aims to replace the rotten social system of the country.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Information Office on November 27, 2025, stated that “as conditions worsen amid spiraling poverty, landlessness, government neglect during times of disasters, the massive theft of public funds, and growing repression, more and more Filipinos are choosing the path of armed resistance. As the legal democratic mass movement surges, so too must the strength of the underground revolutionary forces.”
In the following days NDFP forces and units, like the NDF-Negros Island, NDF.-Southern Tagalog, NDF-Rizal, NDF-Laguna, NDF-Cavite, NDF-Palawan, New Peoples Army (NPA)- Mindoro, PKM (National Peasants Alliance)-Southern Tagalog, Kabataang Makabayan (Patriotic Youth—KM)-Ilokos, KM-Laguna, KM-Cavite, KM-Filipino Migrants and Diaspora Youth, KM-Negros and many others successively affirmed their determination to wage a national democratic revolution and establish a people’s democratic government.