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Proponents of the bill frequently argue that rampant red-tagging violates the constitutional mandate to protect life, liberty, and property. This framing is not only misleading but dangerously incomplete.

The CPP’s attempt to hijack people’s grievances and rebrand them as revolutionary fervor reflects less a mass awakening and more a movement grasping for relevance.

Former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) have publicly expressed dissenting views on the recent

The youth has always been drawn to political education. In periods of uncertainty, discussion spaces that promise clarity, critique, and purpose naturally attract students seeking to understand power, injustice, and their place in society. Kabataan Partylist’s recent series of online “Edukasyong Talakayan” positions itself squarely within this space, presenting the activity as a response to alleged militarization, fascism, and state abuse, particularly in Mindoro. On its face

This is their audacity: to weaponize pain, to moralize selectively, to cry oppression while excusing the machinery that recruited, radicalized, and killed.

The dead of Mindoro and Southern Tagalog are not propaganda. They are evidence. And evidence should, sooner or later, demand reckoning. Are we there yet?

Legal on the Surface, Clandestine at the Core: The CPP’s Front Organizations and the Machinery of Deception

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO — Ipinaliwanag ng isang dating rebelde na kilala bilang Kuya Nik, dating political instructor ng panlabang unit ng NPA Occidental Mindoro (Plager), ang konsepto ng Tour of Duty  (TOD) ng New People’s Army (NPA), kasunod ng mga pahayag ng ilang makakaliwang organisasyon na ang nasawing kabataan sa engkwentro sa Occidental Mindoro na si Jerlyn Doydora at ang rescued na si Chantal Aninoche ay mga “student researcher” lamang. Ayon kay Kuya Nik, hindi simpleng

Chantal knew why she was there. The ND forces knew why she was there. And the intensity and coordination of the response to her detention reveal not innocence, but anxiety over what her presence at that encounter site ultimately exposes.

Bagong taon, malinaw ang panawagan ng Mindoro: CPP–NPA–NDFP, layas. Sa Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro, sinalubong ng mapayapang rali ang pananatili ng KARAPATAN Southern Tagalog, kung saan humigit-kumulang 100 kabataan at katutubong Mindoreño ang nagtipon upang tutulan ang presensya ng CPP–NPA–NDFP at ng mga ligal na prenteng organisasyon nito. Isinagawa ang kilos-protesta kasunod ng serye ng mga engkwentro sa Abra de Ilog, kabilang ang sagupaan noong Enero 1 na ikinasawi ng is

Ngayon pati ang nawawalang Fil-Am na pino-propaganda nilang dinukot ng mga militar ay natagpuan na ng mga sundalo na nagtatago sa isang hukay. Ang kawawang Fil Am ay inabandona at iniwanan na lang ng mga sinamahan nyang mga NPA.

“Co, Ikaw ang Dapat Managot Niyan!” Cleve Sta. Ana TANAY, RIZAL — The mother of a Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila student killed in a rece

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO — Nagsagawa ng isang mapayapang rali ang mga dating rebelde, mga katutubo, at kabataan ng Mindoro sa Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro noong Lunes, Enero 5, upang tutulan ang presensya ng Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) sa isla, kasunod ng naganap na engkwentro sa pagitan ng pwersa ng pamahalaan at mga rebelde sa Barangay Cabacao, Abra de Ilog.

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO—Nakuha ng mga awtoridad ang bangkay ng isang kabataang estudyante matapos ang serye ng mga engkwentro sa pagitan ng mga tropa ng pamahalaan at ng New People’s Army (NPA) sa Sitio Mamara, Barangay Cabacao, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro, Enero 1. Kinilala ang nasawi na si Jerlyn Rose Doydora, isang estudyante ng Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) at dating opisyal ng Kabataan Partylist, na noo’y kasama ang isang yunit ng NPA sa Mindoro. Kinumpirma rin

Kabataang Estudyante, Nasawi sa Engkwentro sa Occidental Mindoro Matapos ang masinsinang imbestigasyon ng mga awtoridad, nakumpirma ang pagkamatay ng isang kabataang estudyante sa serye ng tatlong magkakasunod na engkwentro sa Occidental Mindoro. Kinilala ang nasawing indibidwal na si Jerlyn Rose Doydora, isang Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education major in English mula sa Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), at dating General Secretariat ng Kabataan Partylist bago

DAVAO DEL NORTE—Indigenous leaders from Talaingod have rebuked statements by the Makabayan bloc and allied national democratic organizations following the Court of Appeals’ affirmation of the conviction of former lawmakers Satur Ocampo, France Castro, and their co-accused, saying the Leftist coalition continues to push a narrative that does not reflect the Lumad community’s own position. In an official statement, the Ata-Manobo Tribal Council of Elders/Leaders of Talaing

Former rebel federations and people’s organizations staged rallies and released statements across several regions on December 26.

Rurelyn Bay-ao and Ida Marie Montero argued that the case was not about criminalizing Lumad education but about protecting children during a volatile security situation in 2018.

MANILA — A recent public warning issued by Panday Sining–Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) against a former member accused of “manipulation and sexual harassment” has drawn sharp criticism from former members of national democratic organizations, who questioned the intent and timing of the statement. On December 22, Panday Sining–PUP released a public notice cautioning the public against Dante “Danthird” Sanchez III following reports from one of its members

While most families were still gathered around leftover ham and laughter, I was somewhere in the mountains, mud on my boots, a rifle on my shoulder, convinced that this day meant history, sacrifice, and purpose.