CPP directs NPA to protect people’s interests amid reactionary elections
- Published: 08 February 2025 08 February 2025
With the 2025 mid-term elections closing in, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) issued a statement last January 16 directing the New People’s Army to protect the Filipino people’s interest and welfare amid the reactionary elections.
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Groups hit BJMP ‘surveillance memo’ targetting political prisoners
- Published: 23 January 2025 23 January 2025
Various groups have criticized the memorandum issued by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), which directs the “close monitoring” of suspected communist political prisoners.
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People’s rally to push for Duterte impeachment, Marcos accountability
- Published: 23 January 2025 23 January 2025
The Taumbayan Ayaw sa Magnanakaw at Abusado Network Alliance (TAMA NA) announced its planned protest on January 31 at Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila. The alliance aims to hold the Marcos regime and the Dutertes accountable for the suffering of the Filipino people, rampant corruption, and the lack of accountability of government officials for their numerous crimes against the public.
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Leaders of Luneta rally aimed to derail people’s call to impeach Sara Duterte
- Published: 23 January 2025 23 January 2025
Philippines (CPP), through its Chief Information Officer Marco Valbuena, on 13 January, 2025, exposed the rally organized by the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), Church of Christ, held on the same day in Luneta Park in Manila as a brazen attempt to derail the Filipino people’s quest to attain justice for high crimes of corruption and mass killings perpetrated by former President Rodrigo Duterte and current Vice President Sara Duterte.
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Cuban people demand end to US imperialist embargo
- Published: 04 January 2025 04 January 2025
On December 20, in Havana, Cuba, hundreds of thousands of Cuban people protested in front of the US Embassy demanding the end of the US’ crippling embargo and remove the country from its list of countries “supporting terrorism”. The protest was led by Cuban President Miquel Diaz-Canel.
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Marcos Jr. plans to deploy US Typhon missile system in Ph condemned
- Published: 04 January 2025 04 January 2025
The plan to buy and deploy the costly US Typhon missile system in the Philippines has been widely assailed, both in the Philippines and abroad.
The Typhon Mid-range Capability (MRC) missile system has the capability to launch Tomahawk and SM-6 missiles that can fly up to 1,600 kilometers. The US began manufacturing such weapons in 2019, which were previously banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a nuclear treaty between the US and the then USSR signed during the Cold War. The US withdrew from this treaty in 2019.
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Railroading of Japan-Ph RAA blindsided the Filipino people - CPP
- Published: 04 January 2025 04 January 2025
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), through its Chief Information Officer Marco Valbuena, on 17 December, 2024, strongly condemned the Philippine Senate railroading the ratification of the Japan-Philippines Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) which completely blindsided the Filipino people.
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