Opinion

Nang sumiklab ang malalaking protesta sa Indonesia nitong Agosto 2025, isa sa mga pinakakakaibang tanawin ay hindi lang ang dagsa ng tao o a

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has long characterized the Philippines as a “semi-colonial and semi-feudal” society, a...

For us, corruption is not just a scandal. It is betrayal. It is the poison that fed the insurgency for decades.

At the time, I served as the Political Officer of the NPA Sub-Regional Guerrilla Unit (SRGU) 5, the Sentro de Grabidad of Sub-Regional Committee (SRC) 5 under the Southern Mindanao Regional Committee. My task was to help identify, from among young activists, those who would undergo “revolutionary integration” (RI). RI is a process of immersing student leaders into the daily realities of the poor and marginalized communities within the guerrilla mass base of the New People's A

Anakbayan, again, paints fallen NPA rebels and known CPP figures as “heroes of the people.” Yet when called out for supporting terrorism, th

Inabot ng anim na buwan mula nang mapadpad ako sa Mindanao bago ko masabing matatas na ako sa pagbibisaya. Gayunpaman, problematiko pa rin s

A cleared charge is not the same as a cleared conscience.

For the Maoists in the Philippines, myth-making has always been central to sustaining their half-century insurgency.

MANILA—To former rebels, the clashes that recently erupted in Occidental and Oriental Mindoro between troops of the Armed Forces of the...

But in practice, it has increasingly become a machinery for the CPP to consolidate its power in student activism across the UP system.

Most of those who truly knew have since carried their secrets into the silence of the grave. Among them, the one long alleged to be the chie

To be sure, walang dapat maging “Dutertard” o “Marcos loyalist.” Yan ang pinaka-delikadong binary thinking ngayon.

The CPP-NPA-NDF keeps calling captured NPA fighters “civilians” to manipulate public opinion, but their own members are now breaking ranks.

Why, then, does the CPP and its legal machinery consistently distort the truth when NPA fighters are apprehended?

Pero, mga mars, need rin ata ng CPP ng reality check—isang pagtutuwid sa pambabaluktot at propaganda ng kilusan.

A year after the conviction of former Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo, ACT Teachers Partylist Representative France Castro, and 13 others over a child abuse incident in Talaingod, Davao del Norte, the former secretary of Southern Mindanao Regional Party Committee’s Subregion 5 offered an insider’s look into the underground structure that she said was behind the “rescue mission.” Ida Marie Montero, or Ka Mandy, shared details that painted a picture far more complex

Sa harap ng patuloy na pag-uudyok ng Communist Party of the Philippines–New People's Army–National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP-NPA-NDFP) ng digmang bayan, kailangang malakas na ipahayag ng taumbayan ang katotohanan: ang tunay na sagka sa kapayapaan ay ang patuloy na paghahasik ng karahasan ng armadong kilusan.

This editorial cartoon captures that reality: a red crosshair targets individuals who have already walked away from the violence and now work toward healing and reintegration. The CPP’s scarlet letter is clear: leave the revolution, and you become the enemy. But many former rebels refuse to be silenced or shamed. Their courage in choosing a different path threatens the CPP’s hold over its shrinking ranks. This is not betrayal. This is deliverance from a war that never d

But herein lies the truth: former rebels are being called traitors not because we abandoned the people’s cause, but because we stopped obeying the CPP. What we “handed over” was not allegiance to the masses, but the power the Party once had over our lives. And for that, they mark us with the word "traitor" like a scarlet letter, in a desperate attempt to erase our agency, delegitimize our choices, and scare others from following the same path.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), which often touts its revolutionary ideals, has not been immune to this insidious mentality. In a striking statement about the upcoming Unity Run for Peace planned for September, Marco Valbuena, the CPP’s chief information officer, dismissed the event as nothing more than a facade for government corruption and a false promise of peace. Such words not only reveal an alarming sense of desperation but also a stubborn adherence to out