A former student leader from and member of was among five individuals killed in an armed encounter between government troops and alleged members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) in Cauayan, Negros Occidental on May 16. The fatality was identified by the Philippine Army as Francis Vince Y. Dingding, a University of the Philippines - Cebu Computer Science alumnus who allegedly served as a political instructor of the Southeast Front-D of the

Those student leaders casually affirming armed struggle today are dangerously detached from the realities of armed struggle.

Their statements were striking not because of what they said, but because of what they intentionally refused to say.

Sulong Tayo! presents itself as a fresh start, a coalition of independent students finally breaking free from old labels. But the pattern we have traced—from STAND UP's 2023 admissions of systemic sexual harassment, to the USC's catastrophic mishandling of the Jobert Pillas rape case, to the steady rebranding from Laban Kabataan to Sulong Tayo!—tells us that it is more than mere political spin. This is not just about one coalition avoiding accountability. This is about a s

KORONADAL CITY, SOUTH COTABATO — What once began as lives trapped in armed struggle is now slowly transforming into stories of recovery, livelihood, and renewed hope as former rebels in South Cotabato continue to receive support from the government through various reintegration and livelihood programs.