More battalion in Bukidnon, more calamities for the people

Press Statement | November 2, 2017
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The New People’s Army – North Central Mindanao Region (NPA-NCMR) condemns the US-Rodrigo Duterte regime for deploying a new battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Southern Bukidnon this month.

It had been only two weeks since the 88th Infantry Battalion reached the old camp of the 8th IB in Maramag, Bukidnon, militarization had already intensified against the people and the revolutionary forces of the said area.

Despite with the vast plantations for ready-to-export products, of foreign corporate farmlands in the province, their expansion did not cease which will even ravage the agricultural lands. From here, infrastructure projects are setting down to build the Pulangui Dam–V and Maramag-Don Carlos Airport that will invite more foreign investments to the province, as anticipated by the bureaucrat capitalists.

According to reports, the Pulangi Dam-V will aggregate the rivers in Bukidnon and Cotabato and will clear the 40,000 hectares of forest, agricultural and ancestral lands in 22 barrios in the provinces of Bukidnon, Maguindanao and North Cotabato. 2,800 families of Matigsalog tribe in Kitaotao, Bukidnon and Tagabawas tribe in Cotabato will be affected of possible flooding of the said dam. More or less 6,700 families will also be affected with their livelihood, such as farming, fishing and small-scale mining of gold in the river. Overall, more than 800,000 residents from Maramag, Bukidnon, Moro communities in Liguasan Marsh and in Cotabato City, Maguindanao will be affected with this project, who are principally depend on the water from Pulangui river for their irrigation, fishing and other livelihood.

The Maramag-Don Carlos Airport will also convert hundreds of hectares of farmland as airfield. Despite of the fact that the province and region already experienced several calamities, such as floods, landslides and forest fires, Del Monte, Dole-Itochu, Sumifru, Davco and A. Brown did not cease of devastating even those declared by the Department of Environment and Natural resources (DENR) as watersheds and protected areas.

Hence, the current situation is very timely for the imposition of martial law in Mindanao and intensive offensives against the revolutionary movement and the armed resistance of the Moro, so they could lay more of their AFP troops and Lumad bandit groups in the ancestral lands. Hence, it is even more blatant that the mandate of the 88th IB, under the leadership of Lt. Col. Allan Ortal, is to defend the interest of the companies who were drooling to plunder the lands. In a time or two, we could anticipate the aggravating militarization, violation of people’s rights of the peasants and of the right to self-determination of the Lumad.

It has been more blatant to the people that the US-Duterte regime’s plot was just to hasten the establishment of pro-imperialist infrastructures through his “Build, Build, Build,” in order to submit the resources and labor forces of the country to his bosses such as the US, China and other superior foreign countries. Military oppression aims nothing, but to exploit the life of the toiling masses.

As response to this, armed and unarmed resistance will surely reciprocate the said objective of the 4th Infantry Division. The NPA-NCMR is in its favorable political and moral position to put the armed aggression of the said battalion into complete failure, may it be anywhere in the province or anytime they want to.

The encroachment of these giant foreign companies will intensify the resistance that the people of Bukidnon have been waging. They grasped with them the heroic and militant tradition of resisting and persevering for more than four decades, even before late President Marcos imposed martial law on 1972. The 88th IB and the AFP organization as a whole should always remember that the NPA strengthen, expanded and became triumphant within the 48 years of its being because of the fascist and repressive system that had been the oppressed and exploited masses’ daily meal. #

Ka Malem Mabini
Spokesperson
NPA-NCMR


Press Statement | Nobyembre 2, 2017

Dugang batalyon sa Bukidnon, dugang katalagman

Gikundena sa New People’s Amy – North Central Mindanao Region (NPA-NCMR) ang laraw sa rehimeng US-Rodrigo Duterte sa pagbubo niini og bag-ong batalyon sa Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa Southern Bukidnon niining bulana.

Mag-duha ka semana pa lang sukad makaabot sa daang kampo sa 8th IB sa Maramag, Bukidnon ang 88th Infantry Battalion, wala’g-tuo na ang militarisasyon nga nasinati sa katawhan ug rebolusyonaryong pwersa sa maong lugar.

Taliwala sa nagbanig nga mga plantasyon sa mga langyaw nga korporadong umahan sa probinsya alang sa produktong pang-eksport, wala pa gihapo’y paglurang ang ilang pagpalapad nga nagaligis sa mga yutang agrikultural nga gitamnan sa pagkaon. Lambigit niini, nag-atang nga makaplastar ang mga proyektong imprastruktura sama sa Pulangui Dam-V ug Maramag – Don Carlos Airport nga maoy gilaoman sa mga burukrata kapitalista nga maoy moimbita og dugang pang mga langyaw’ng tigpamatigayon pasulod sa probinsya.

Magkutay ang proyektong Pulangui Dam-V sa mga suba sa Bukidnon ug Cotabato ug gikataho kining mohawan sa 40,000 ka ektaryang kalasangan, yutang agrikultural ug ansestral sa 22 ka mga baryo sa mga probinsya sa Bukidnon, Maguindanao ug North Cotabato. Mokabat sa 2, 800 ka pamilya sa tribung Matigsalog sa Kitaotao, Bukidnon ug tribung Tagabawas sa Cotabato ang mamahimong malunupan sa tubig gikan sa maong dam.

Mokabat sa 6,700 ka pamilya ang mamahimong maapektohan ang panginabuhian, sama sa pagpanguma, pagpangisda ug pagbiling-biling og bulawan kilid sa suba. Suma-total, mokabat sa kapin 800,000 ka mga lumulupyo gikan sa Maramag, Bukidnon padulong sa mga Moro nga komunidad sa Liguasan Marsh hangtud na sa syudad sa Cotabato sa Maguindanao ang maapektuhan niini nga proyekto nga nagsandig sa tubig gikan sa suba sa Pulangui alang sa ilang irigasyon, pangisdaan ug uban pang panginabuhian.

I-kumbert usab sa Maramag-Don Carlos Airport ang gatusan ka ektaryang umahan aron matukuran og tugpahanan. Bisan kung nakasinati na og mga kalamidad ang probinsya ug rehiyon tungod sa mga pagbaha, pagdahili sa yuta ug pagkasunog sa mga kalasangan, walay paglurang ang mga kompanya sa Del Monte, Dole-Itochu, Sumifru, Davco ug A. Brown sa pagtandog bisan sa gilatid sa Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) nga mga watersheds ug protected areas.

Busa, haom ang pagkakarong kahimtang sa balaod-militar sa Mindanao ug mas gipasubsob nga opensiba batok sa rebolusyonaryong kalihukan ug sa armadong pagdepensa sa mga Moro nga yak-an og daghang mga tropa sa AFP ug mga sulugoon nilang bandidong grupong mga Lumad ang mga yutang ansestral. Busa, hilabihan ka tataw nga ang nag-unang mandato sa 88th IB, ubos ni Lt. Col. Allan Ortal, mao ang pagpanalipod sa interes sa mga kompanyang naglaway nga kawkawon ang maong mga kayutaan. Sa duol nga umaabot, laoman ang mas kaylap nga militarisasyon, paglapas sa katungod-tawo sa mga mag-uuma ug pagyatak sa katungod alang sa kaugalingong paghukom sa mga Lumad.

Labing nahimong tataw lamang ngadto sa katawhan ang mga laraw sa rehimeng US-Duterte nga dali-dalion ang pagtukod niining mga maki-langyaw’ng proyekto, pinaagi sa “Build, Build, Build,” aron itugyan ang bahandi ug kusog-pamuo sa nasud ngadto sa iyang among Estados Unidos, China ug uban pang gamhanang nasud. Walay laing tinguha ang pagpangdaug-daog militar, kundili labaw pang pagpahimulos sa kinabuhi sa masang nilupigan.

Isip tugbang niini, malaoman nga pagatagbuon sa armado ug dili-armadong pagsukol ang maong laraw sa 4th Infantry Division. Ang NPA – North Central Mindanao anaa sa tukmang pulitikanhon ug moral nga posisyon sa pagpakyas sa armadong pagpangatake sa maong batalyon, asa mang bahin sa probinsya ug unsa mang orasa niini gustuhon.

Ang pagpanghasmag sa higanteng mga langyaw’ng kampanya labaw lang nga mopadilaab sa pagsukol nga nasugdan na sa katawhan sa Bukidnon. Gihawiran nila ang mabayanihon ug palaban nga tradisyon sa pagsukol ug paglahutay sulod na sa kapin upat ka dekada sa wala pa gipakanaog ni Presidente Marcos ang balaod militar kaniadtong 1972. Angay timan-an sa 88th IB ug sa tibuok organisasyon sa AFP nga milig-on, milapad ug nagmalampuson ang NPA sulod sa 48 ka tuig tungod sa pasismo ug mapanumpoong sistema nga sa adlaw-adlaw nahimo nang kinaon sa masang dinaugdaug ug pinahimuslan. #

Ka Malem Mabini
Tigpamaba
NPA-NCMR

Frustrate Duterte’s “full-scale” war with all-out resistance

Information Bureau | Communist Party of the Philippines
October 29, 2017

GRP fascist strongman Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly declared that after the Marawi siege, he will focus his troops against the New People’s Army (NPA) in what he recently declared will be a “full-scale war.” Several battalions have already been redeployed back to focus on waging all-out war under Oplan Kapayapaan. The AFP leadership has declared the aim of “wiping out” the NPA by the end of 2018.

The AFP has announced that it will complete the recruitment and training of at least 8,000 troops by end-November. It aims to recruit 5,000 more troops by January 2018. The rush in recruitment is in line with the aim of building at least ten more battalions of fascist troops to be deployed against the NPA. Duterte is also feverishly acquiring automatic rifles, attack helicopters, bombs and rockets from the US, China and Russia to train and fire against the people.

Majority of the new battalions will be deployed under the Eastern Mindanao Command, Duterte’s favorite command. The newly-formed 88th IB has already been deployed to Maramag, Bukidnon.

Duterte and his military officials’ declaration that “not one” member of the CPP/NPA will be left by the end of 2018 is a pipe-dream. He seems to be in a drug-induced dreamland for him to wish that the AFP will accomplish in one year what it has failed to achieve in the past 50 years of abuses and armed suppression.

However, with the AFP building more battalions and obsessed with “wiping out” the NPA, there will surely be a rise in the number of extrajudicial killings and cases of human rights abuses as war-frenzied AFP units occupy more rural communities, target and liquidate peasant activists demanding land and opposing mining and plantations, destroy self-organized schools, cooperatives, community farm lots and other socio-economic undertakings for poor communities which the AFP invariably label as “NPA projects.” More civilians will fall prey to military bounty-hunters running after the price-per-NPA-head award offered by the regime.

There are now close to 100 cases of extrajudicial killings of civilians, 91 of whom are peasants, under Duterte’s Oplan Kapayapaan. They have been falsely accused and targeted by the AFP as members of the NPA for being activists demanding land reform and opposing mining operations and land grabbing. The biggest number of cases of peasant killings have been recorded in Compostela Valley, now virtually the Valley of Death. In Sorsogon, a number of peasant leaders and activists were successively summarily executed by state forces in the past weeks.

The Lumad minority groups in Mindanao, in particular, are in Duterte’s cross-hairs. He has ordered the bombing of Lumad schools. Combat troops of the AFP have been deployed to Lumad communities to occupy their homes and schools. Last October 23, combat troops of the 25th IB destroyed books and facilities of the popular Lumad school Salugpungan in Sitio Letter V, Barangay Mount Diwata, Monkayo, Compostela Valley and occupied the community forcing at least eight families to evacuate.

The AFP has heeded Duterte’s “flatten the hills” call to arms. With full US support, the AFP has subjected more and more civilian communities to aerial bombardment and heavy artillery fire in order to overawe and traumatize the people and force them to submit to AFP’s abusive military rule. The AFP glorifies the images of the complete destruction of Marawi City and uses these to threaten the people in the revolutionary base areas.

In the past months, the AFP has dropped bombs endangering civilians in Batangas, North Cotabato, Compostela Valley, Davao City, Davao del Sur, Bukidnon, Agusan del Norte and other provinces in the course of its combat operations against the NPA. In the face of growing resistance against the AFP’s aerial bombardment campaigns, military spokesmen now euphemistically refer to aerial bombing as “aerial support.” The AFP fools no one with this play of words.

Amid the continuing rise in the number of killings and abuses perpetrated by the AFP, the Party calls on the Filipino people to firmly resist and frustrate the Duterte regime’s heightened all-out war against the broad masses of the people and their revolutionary forces.

By popularizing the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL), the people’s awareness of their political, socio-economic as well as cultural rights is raised and their militancy to defend these is heightened.

The Filipino people demand an end to martial law in Mindanao and will resist Duterte’s declared threats to impose a fascist dictatorship.

The peasant masses, especially, are ever determined to defend their homes and communities and relentlessly oppose the AFP’s occupation of schools, barangay halls, day care centers and other civilian structures. They demand the withdrawal of AFP troops which have occupied their schools and homes as military barracks.

The people demand the demilitarization of the bureaucracy and delivery of social services. The Filipino people demand cuts in the budget for the AFP and a stop to the expansion of the number of fascist troops which they equate with more killings, abuses and aerial bombings.

The people demand an end to US military intervention, war-mongering and direct and indirect support to counter-insurgency operations. They demand an end to such lopsided military agreements as the Mutual Defense Treaty and the Visiting Forces Agreement which perpetuate and tighten US control of the AFP.

The people are united firmly in demanding an end to the use of aerial bombardment as a weapon of widespread destruction which endangers the lives of civilians, damages the people’s livelihood, destroys the environment and causes mass trauma, especially among children.

The New People’s Army continues to solidly advance armed resistance against the US-Duterte regime’s intensified all-out war. It will frustrate Duterte’s ambition to wipe-out the armed revolutionary forces by the end of 2018. Guerrilla warfare continues to be waged nationwide, as the NPA seizes weapons from the enemy, recruits more and more young Red fighters, expands the number and scope of guerrilla zones, carries out agrarian revolution and consolidates the revolutionary base areas.

By unleashing fascist violence in its triple war of mass murder and death and destruction, the Duterte regime has succeeded in rousing the people to wage all-out armed and non-armed resistance. The Filipino people are taking the initiative in waging all forms of struggle to resist the regime’s triple wars, all-out economic liberalization and subservience to US imperialism.

GMC, punished by the NPA; other 3 military actions, launched

Press Release
October 26, 2017
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THE RED FIGHTERS, under the Western Agusan del Norte – Agusan del Sur (WANAS) Subregional Command, punished the Gil M. Cembrano (GMC) construction company and launched other three military actions only within three days on October 21-23, 2017.

The WANAS operatives paralyzed four backhoes, a dump truck and a pay loader of GMC on October 21, 1 A.M. in Purok 7, Brgy. Bonbon, Butuan City. Atty. Del Cembrano owns this company. The punitive action aims to punish the company to the destruction they brought to the environment due to their quarry operations. According to reports, the GMC plans to expand their operation, which would completely result to demolition and dislocation of the residents. In the said operation, the GMC lost around P30 million from the damage.

On October 22, 1:30 PM, an encounter ensued between a platoon of WANAS and of the elements of the 26th IB, riding in tandem three motorcycles. This took place in KM8, Brgy. Balit, San Luis, Agusan del Sur. In the said operation, three soldiers were killed-in-action. On the other hand, two NPA Red fighters were martyred and left behind a firearm on the scene.

On the following day, October 23, the WANAS launched another two harassments against the soldiers of the 23rd IB in Purok 4, Brgy. Nongnong, Butuan City. The first transpired at 7:10 AM and the second followed at around 12 PM. According to reports from the NPA operatives, the soldiers used a fighter jet and dropped eight bombs near the community. 12 soldiers were confirmed killed-in-action, while the NPA safely withdrew from the action. #

Ka Omar Ibarra
Spokesperson
WANAS, NPA-NCMR


Press Release | Oktubre 26, 2017

GMC, gisilutan sa NPA; lain pang 3 ka aksyong militar, gilunsad

GISILUTAN SA mga Pulang manggugubat, ilalom sa Western Agusan del Norte – Agusan del Sur (WANAS) Subregional Command, ang Gil M. Cembrano (GMC) construction company ug gipahigayon usab ang lain pang tulo ka aksyong militar sulod lamang sa tulo ka adlaw niadtong Oktubre 21-23, 2017.

Giparalisa sa mga operatiba sa WANAS ang upat ka backhoe, usa ka dump truck ug usa ka pay loader sa GMC niadtong Oktubre 21, ala-1:00 sa kaadlawon sa Purok 7, Brgy. Bonbon, Butuan City. Gipanag-iyahan kini ni Atty. Del Cembrano. Tumong sa maong punitibong aksyon ang pagsilot sa maong kumpanya sa kadaot nga gidala niini ngadto sa kinaiyahan tungod sa ilang quarry operation. Subay usab sa mga taho, anaay laraw ang GMC nga palapdon pa ang ilang operasyon nga moresulta sa pagka-demolis ug pagkadislokar sa mga lumulupyo sa maong lugar. Gibana-banang mokabat sa P30 milyon ang kantidad sa nadaot sa GMC.

Niadtong Oktubre 22, ala-1:30 sa hapon, nahitabo usab ang usa ka engkwentro tali sa usa ka platun sa WANAS ug sa mga sundalo sa 26th IB nga nagsakay sa tulo ka motorsiklo. Nahitabo kini sa KM8, Brgy. Balit, San Luis, Agusan del Sur. Sa maong operasyon, napatay ang tulo ka sundalo. Sa pikas bahin, na-martir usab ang duha ka mga NPA ug nabiyaan ang usa ka armas sa lugar sa engkwentro.

Sa pagka-sunod adlaw, Oktubre 23, duha ka hugna na usab ka harassment ang gilunsad sa WANAS batok sa mga kasundalohan sa 23rd IB sa Purok 4, Brgy. Nongnong, Butuan City. Nahitabo ang unang hugna sa alas-7:10 sa buntag ug ang ika-duhang hugna sa may alas-12 sa kaudtuhon. Sa taho sa mga operatiba sa NPA, naggamit ang kasundalohan og fighter jet ug naghulog kini og walo ka bomba duol sa komunidad. Nakumpirmang mikabat sa 12 ka sundalo ang napatay, samtang luwas nga naka-widrow ang NPA. #

Ka Omar Ibarra
Tigpamaba
WANAS, NPA-NCMR

Sagot sa pagmumura ni Duterte sa mga drayber

Kawanihan sa Impormasyon | Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas
Oktubre 18, 2017

Photo: Philstar.com

Tumitindig ang Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, kaisa ng sambayanang Pilipino, sa panig ng masang anakpawis na mga drayber ng jeep sa pagtatanggol sa kanilang kabuhayang pinagbabantaang ipagkait ng rehimeng Duterte. Binabati ng Partido at mga rebolusyonaryong pwersa ang matagumpay nilang dalawang araw na welga sa transportasyon.

Kahapon, sa ikalawang araw ng welga, pinagmumumura ni Duterte ang mga drayber ng jeep: “Mahirap kayo? P*******a, magtiis kayo sa hirap at gutom. Wala akong pakialam!” Ipinakita na naman ni Duterte ang tunay niyang kulay: galit sa mga gutom at mahirap, laluna ang mga marunong manindigan at lumaban para sa kanilang interes.

Nagmamatigas at nagmamadali si Duterte na ipatupad ang anti-mahirap, maka-dayuhan na “modernisasyon” ng jeep. Isa itong planong pag-agaw sa kabuhayan ng maliliit na opereytor at drayber ng jeep. Sino ba talaga ang pinapaburan ni Duterte? Ang malalaking kapitalista (kasama na ang iilang malalaking opereytor), pati na ang mga dayuhang kapitalistang pag-aangkatan ng bagong mga piyesa ng mga “modernong” jeep.

Duterte, isa kang malaking hambog na peke: Nagpupuputok ang butse mo sa ibinubugang usok ng mga jeep, pero tameme ka naman sa napakakapal na usok ng mga coal-fired power plant na lumalason sa kapaligiran sa buong bansa. Ang totoo, gusto mo lang patayin sa hirap at gutom ang mga drayber at maliliit na opereytor ng jeep, para lang mapagsilbihan mo ang tunay mong mga amo.

Dahil dito nakasalalay ang kanilang buhay, hindi mananahimik ang mga drayber at opereytor ng jeep kahit pa isagasa ni Duterte ang planong itaboy sila sa mga kalsada. Hindi sila papayag na pahirapan at gutumin ni Duterte. Sa buong bansa, libu-libo sa kanila ang naninindigang mamamatay sa paglaban!

Brigands and Thieves in Camarines Norte are Agents and Under the Protection of the 9th ID, PA

October 10, 2017 | Press release | Filipino»

The Armando Catapia Command (ACC – NPA Camarines Norte) wishes to inform the public that the revolutionary movement has no connection with the following:

  1. Jonel Sayno Alcanzo, alias “Bro” or “Jo”
  2. Sammy Pacinos of Sitio Nagitin, Barangay Capakuan, Paracale
  3. Saldy Rile, alias “Gigi”
  4. Jose Gutierrez of Sitio Tidi, Barangay Sta. Rosa Sur, Jose Panganiban
  5. Rodel Medinilla, alias “Caloy”, of Barangay Sta. Cruz, Jose Panganiban
  6. Ronnie “Totoy” Archibedo of Barangay Alayao, Capalonga

These personalities are brigands and thieves operating in the municipalities of Jose Panganiban, Paracale and parts of Labo in Camarines Norte, Bicol, where they target small mining operations, businessmen and well-to-do citizens. Some of their cases are the following:

 

  1. Discrediting the policy of the People’s Democratic Government on revolutionary taxes and posing as members of the New People’s Army
  2. Drug trafficking
  3. Armed robbery
  4. Extortion and threats of kidnap and arson for those who do not comply

These criminal activities – which are against the iron discipline and the laws of the revolutionary movement – are, in fact, supported by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU). The ACC has received reports that Sammy Pacinos is directly connected with the 9th ID,PA, as evidenced by his frequent visits to the division camp in Pili, Camarines Sur. Jose Guitierrez works directly with Pacinos. Medinilla and Archibedo are active CAFGU elements of the Delta Company, 22nd Cadre Batallion.

The formation of paramilitary ang impostor groups are part of the AFP-PNP-CAFGU’s design to confuse the public and thus, hinder the unity and cooperation of the people. Military and pollice officials protect and supervise these criminal activities for their personal gain as well.

The People’s Democratic Government, as representative of revolutionary political power, has the right to levy taxes within its territory. These taxes are reasonable and are used for community services. No matter how hard the reactionary state agents try to discredit the revolutionary movement, the NPA, through genuine service as the true soldiers of the people, have already firmly established unity and cooperation with and among the people.

The ACC calls upon the people to be vigilant and critical when dealing with those who introduce themselves as members of the NPA. The NPA conducts its duties, not through violence and intimidation, but based on the level of political power of the masses. This means that progress in dealing with the middle forces is the result of rigorous advances in educating, organizing and mobilizing the people.

The ACC also encourages the public to inform the nearest NPA unit in their area regarding complaints against enemy state agents. Rest assured that complaints will be heard and acted upon, after thorough investigation.

The ACC warns those who are using the name of the New People’s Army for their personal gain and for sowing confusion and fear among the people. Punitive actions for violations will be carried out, as per the Law and Justice of the People’s Democratic Government.

Carlito Cada
Spokesperson
Armando Catapia Command
New People’s Army – Camarines Norte


Mga Tulisan at Kawatan sa ilang bayan ng Camarines Norte, Ahente’t Pinoproteksyunan ng 9th IDPA

Oktubre 10, 2017
Pahayag sa Midya

Ipinaabot ng Armando Catapia Command (ACC – NPA Camarines Norte) sa publiko na walang kaugnayan sa rebolusyonaryong kilusan ang mga sumusunod na mga personalidad:

1. Jonel Sayno Alcanzo, alyas “Bro” o “Jo”
2. Sammy Pacinos ng Sitio Nagitin, Bgy. Capakuan, Paracale
3. Saldy Rile, alyas “Gigi”
4. Jose Gutierrez ng Sitio Tidi, Bgy. Sta. Rosa Sur, Jose Panganiban
5. Rodel Medinilla, alyas “Caloy”, ng Bgy. Sta. Cruz, Jose Panganiban
6. Ronnie “Totoy” Archibedo ng Bgy. Alayao, Capalonga

Ang mga nabanggit ay mga tulisan at kawatang nag-ooperasyon sa mga bayan ng Jose Panganiban, Paracale at ilang bahagi ng Labo sa Camarines Norte. Target ng mga ito ang mga maliitang operasyon ng pagmimina, negosyante at ilang nakakaangat sa buhay na mamamayan ng mga nabanggit na bayan. Ilan sa kanilang mga kaso ay ang sumusunod:

1. Pagsasalaula sa mga patakaran ng Demokratikong Gubyernong Bayan hinggil sa rebolusyonaryong pagbubuwis at paggamit ng pangalan ng NPA
2. Pagtutulak ng droga
3. Panghoholdap
4. Pangingikil at pagbabanta sa mga hindi sumunod na sila’y dudukutin o kaya’y susunugan ng ari-arian

Ang mga kriminal na aktibidad na ito – na labag sa disiplinang bakal at batas ng rebolusyonaryong kilusan – ay itinataguyod ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP) at ng Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU). Sa katunayan, si Sammy Pacinos ay makailang ulit nang naiulat sa ACC na may direktang kaugnayan sa 9th IDPA at madalas itong bumibisita sa kampo ng dibisyon sa Pili, Camarines Sur. Samantala, si Jose Gutierez ay lantad na kasapakat ni Pacinos. Si Medinilla at Archibedo naman ay mga aktibong elemento ng CAFGU ng Delta Company, 22nd Cadre Batallion.

Ang pagbubuo ng mga paramilitar at impostor na armadong grupo ay kalangkap ng disenyo ng AFP-PNP-CAFGU upang lituhin ang publiko’t sagkaan ang pagbibigkis ng mamamayan. Ginagawang gatasan rin ng mga upisyal ng militari’t pulis ang mga kriminal na aktibidad hindi lamang bilang mga protektor nito. Katunayan, sila mismo ang may hawak ng ganitong mga operasyon.

Ang Demokratikong Gubyernong Bayan, bilang kinatawan ng pulang kapangyarihan, ay may karapatang magpataw ng buwis sa saklaw nitong teritoryo. Ang pagbubuwis na ito ay nakapapailalim sa makatuwirang mga patakaran at napupunta sa mga serbisyo para sa komunidad. Gaano man ang pagsusumikap ng mga ahente ng estado na patuloy na siraan ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan, napatatag na ng tunay na hukbo ng mamamayan – ang NPA – ang mahigpit na pakikipagtulungan sa hanay ng masa sa pamamagitan ng matapat na pagsisilbi sa interes nito.

Hinihikayat ng ACC ang mamamayan na maging mapagbantay at mapanuri sa pakikipagharap sa mga nagpapakilalang NPA. Ang paggubyernong itinataguyod ng NPA ay hindi nakabatay sa dahas at pananakot. Ito ay nakabatay sa itinataas ng antas ng kapangyarihang pampulitika ng nag-aaklas na bayan. Ang mga pag-abante sa pakikipag-ugnayan sa mga panggitnang pwersa ay bunga ng masikhay na pag-aabante sa pagmumulat, pag-oorganisa at pagpapakilos sa mamamayan.

Hinihikayat rin ng ACC ang lahat na ipaabot sa pinakamalapit na yunit ng NPA ang kanilang mga reklamo laban sa ilang mga tusong ahente ng bulok na estado. Makakaasa ang publiko na didinggin at kagyat na aaksyunan, matapos ang masinsing pagsusuri, ang anumang karaingang idudulog sa NPA.

Mahigpit na binabalaan ang sinumang gumagamit sa pangalan ng NPA para sa kanilang pansariling interes at paghahasik ng ligalig sa mamamayan. May karampatang parusa sa ilalim ng Batas at Hustisya ng Demokratikong Gubyernong Bayan ang anumang paglabag dito.

Carlito Cada
Tagapagsalita
Armando Catapia Command
Bagong Hukbong Bayan – Camarines Norte

October 10, 2017
Press release

Brigands and Thieves in Camarines Norte are Agents and Under the Protection of the 9th ID, PA

The Armando Catapia Command (ACC – NPA Camarines Norte) wishes to inform the public that the revolutionary movement has no connection with the following:

1. Jonel Sayno Alcanzo, alias “Bro” or “Jo”
2. Sammy Pacinos of Sitio Nagitin, Barangay Capakuan, Paracale
3. Saldy Rile, alias “Gigi”
4. Jose Gutierrez of Sitio Tidi, Barangay Sta. Rosa Sur, Jose Panganiban
5. Rodel Medinilla, alias “Caloy”, of Barangay Sta. Cruz, Jose Panganiban
6. Ronnie “Totoy” Archibedo of Barangay Alayao, Capalonga

These personalities are brigands and thieves operating in the municipalities of Jose Panganiban, Paracale and parts of Labo in Camarines Norte, Bicol, where they target small mining operations, businessmen and well-to-do citizens. Some of their cases are the following:

1. Discrediting the policy of the People’s Democratic Government on revolutionary taxes and posing as members of the New People’s Army
2. Drug trafficking
3. Armed robbery
4. Extortion and threats of kidnap and arson for those who do not comply

These criminal activities – which are against the iron discipline and the laws of the revolutionary movement – are, in fact, supported by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU). The ACC has received reports that Sammy Pacinos is directly connected with the 9th ID,PA, as evidenced by his frequent visits to the division camp in Pili, Camarines Sur. Jose Guitierrez works directly with Pacinos. Medinilla and Archibedo are active CAFGU elements of the Delta Company, 22nd Cadre Batallion.

The formation of paramilitary ang impostor groups are part of the AFP-PNP-CAFGU’s design to confuse the public and thus, hinder the unity and cooperation of the people. Military and pollice officials protect and supervise these criminal activities for their personal gain as well.

The People’s Democratic Government, as representative of revolutionary political power, has the right to levy taxes within its territory. These taxes are reasonable and are used for community services. No matter how hard the reactionary state agents try to discredit the revolutionary movement, the NPA, through genuine service as the true soldiers of the people, have already firmly established unity and cooperation with and among the people.

The ACC calls upon the people to be vigilant and critical when dealing with those who introduce themselves as members of the NPA. The NPA conducts its duties, not through violence and intimidation, but based on the level of political power of the masses. This means that progress in dealing with the middle forces is the result of rigorous advances in educating, organizing and mobilizing the people.

The ACC also encourages the public to inform the nearest NPA unit in their area regarding complaints against enemy state agents. Rest assured that complaints will be heard and acted upon, after thorough investigation.

The ACC warns those who are using the name of the New People’s Army for their personal gain and for sowing confusion and fear among the people. Punitive actions for violations will be carried out, as per the Law and Justice of the People’s Democratic Government.

Carlito Cada
Spokesperson
Armando Catapia Command
New People’s Army – Camarines Norte

NPA raids Sumifru plantation in South Cotabato

Press statement
9 October 2017
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Various company facilities were torched and at least four service arms were confiscated by the NPA in a raid in Sumifru Corporation’s banana plantation in Sityo Lakag, Brgy. New Dumangas, T’boli, South Cotabato. The attack took place at around 10:30 in the evening in October 2, 2017.

The raid which was carried out by the Neptune Unit of the Mt. Musa Subregional Operations Command of the NPA-FSMR is a punitive action meted against the multinational agri-corporation for its persistent land grabbing, environmental destructions and unjust labor policies.

The NPA Red fighters confiscated two 9mm handguns, two shotguns, and two handheld radios from the security guards on duty. They also burned down a container van, two tanker trucks, a packing plant and a warehouse building.
The damages to company properties figure to a total of at least six million pesos.

The NPA-FSMR is ever determined to ceaselessly defend the people against local and foreign plunderers. It is set to pull off further punitive actions amidst the all-out war of the US-Duterte regime that clearly stands for the oligarchs.

Ka Dencio Madrigal
Spokesperson, Valentin Palamine Regional Operations Command
Far South Mindanao Region
NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY


Plantasyon sa Sumifru sa South Cotabato gi-reyd sa NPA

Ubay-ubay nga mga pasilidad sa kompanya ang gidauban ug upat ka mga pusil ang gikumpiska sa NPA sa reyd sa usa ka banana plantation sa Sumifru Corporation sa Sityo Lakag, Brgy. New Dumangas, T’boli, South Cotabato. Ang atake nahitabo bandang alas 10:30 sa kagabhion niadtong Oktubre 2, 2017.

Ang naasoyng reyd nga gipatuman sa Neptune Unit sa Mt. Musa Subregional Operations Command sa NPA-FSMR usa ka aksyong pagsilot sa multinasyunal nga agrikorporasyon tungod sa malanaton nang pagpangilog niini og yuta, pagdaut sa kinaiyahan ug dili-makatarunganong palisiya sa pamuo.

Nakakumpiska ang mga Pulang manggugubat og duha ka 9mm nga pistola, duha ka shotgun, ug duha ka handheld radios gikan sa mga security guards nga nakadyuti atul sa pag-atake. Nangaugdaw sab ang gipangdauban nila nga usa ka container van, duha ka tanker trucks, packing plant ug warehouse building.

Mokabat og dili moubos sa sais milyones pesos ang sumada sa nahimong danyos sa mga kabtangan sa kompanya.
Ang NPA-FSMR determinado nga makanunayong depensahan ang katawhan batok sa lokal ug langyawng mga tigpangawkaw. Andam kining mopatuman og dugang pa nga mga aksyong pagsilot taliwa sa all-out war sa rehimeng US-Duterte nga dayag kaayong nagabarug alang sa mga oligarko.

Ka Dencio Madrigal
Tigpamaba, VPROC-FSMR

Duterte’s conspiracy claims aim to set stage to clampdown on opposition

Information Bureau | Communist Party of the Philippines
October 5, 2017

Duterte claimed yesterday that there is a conspiracy between the Communist Party and the Liberal Party to overthrow his regime. It appears that such claims aim to set the stage to clampdown on the political opposition and all other forces standing up against moves to establishing Duterte’s authoritarian rule.

The CPP and other Left political forces may have no formal alliance with the Liberal Party and its affiliates but can recognize their.initiatives and action as serving the same purpose of resisting Duterte’s tyranny.

What Duterte claims to be a “conspiracy” is, in fact, the broad community of various political and social groups which have been roused to make a stand and act against relentless killings by police, soldiers and vigilantes, aerial bombardment against communities, militarization and threats to bomb Lumad schools, suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and martial law in Mindanao, heightened campus repression and other acts of fascist tyranny of the Duterte regime.

Duterte is intolerant of all opposition and dissent. He intends on monopolizing political power. Duterte wants to clampdown and silence all who disagree with his policies and methods. He has threatened to impose martial law. His officials and loyalists have openly declared plans to use all means to have all those who dissent to be imprisoned. The so-called Citizen National Guard, a vigilante-style group endorsed by Duterte’s justice secretary, is more brazen in encouraging attacks against declared dissenters whom they declared as “enemies of the state.”

Duterte’s resort to such strong-armed tactics show desperation and underscores his political isolation. His triple war of death and destruction, his fascist and bureaucrat capitalist rule, corruption and US subservience have roused widespread people’s resistance. Calls for his ouster continue to mount.

Duterte’s latest idea of general amnesty does not fool anyone in the revolutionary movement

National Democratic Front of the Philippines
National Executive Committee

Press Statement
26 September 2017

Duterte’s latest plan to grant “general amnesty” to NPA fighters who surrender is nothing but a psywar tool to create division within the revolutionary movement and to spread an illusion of magnanimity among the general public.

The GRP panel head Silvestre H. Bello III must explain to his principal that his latest idea of general amnesty is absolutely unacceptable to the NDFP because it violates the letter and spirit of the whole GRP-NDFP peace negotiations.

The general amnesty conceived of in the Hague Joint Declaration that sets the framework for the whole GRP-NDFP peace negotiations is mutual amnesty for both NPA fighters and GRP soldiers as part of the Comprehensive Agreement on End of Hostilities and Disposition of Forces (CAEHDF) after the two sides have approved the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER) and Comprehensive Agreement on Political and Constitutional Reforms (CAPCR).

The Hague Joint Declaration has established the principle that the negotiations are not about the surrender of one side to the other but for the two warring parties to end the armed conflict by forging agreements on addressing the social, economic and political roots of the armed conflict. In other words to solve the problems of widespread poverty among the majority on the one hand and scandalous wealth among the few on the other, monopoly of political power by oligarchs and political dynasties and powerlessness among the masses, etc.

Duterte’s latest idea of amnesty violates the letter and spirit of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations because it is conditional on the surrender of NPA fighters even before there is agreement between the two parties on how to address the roots of the armed conflict.

Duterte’s latest idea of amnesty is different from his promise in May 2016 to Fidel Agcaoili to grant amnesty to all the political prisoners being held in GRP prisons as a confidential building measure for the resumption of the peace negotiations upon the assumption of Duterte to the GRP presidency.

That promise which was intended as a confidence-building measure has now been distorted and turned into a psywar tool upon the advice of the war-freaks around him, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon and AFP Chief of Staff Eduardo Ano. It is only bound to heighten mutual animosity rather than create a favorable atmosphere for the resumption of the GRP- NDFP peace negotiations.

If Duterte is really serious in talking peace with the NDFP, he must listen to the wise counsel of his peace negotiating panel head Sec. Bello who is knowledgeable about the history of the peace negotiations and the stand of the NDFP on many questions rather than to the pro-US militarists who know nothing but to wage war against the revolutionary movement and the people. #

Stop Batangas aerial bombings!

Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
26 September 2017

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the Duterte regime and its Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for dropping bombs in villages in the vicinity around Mt. Banoy, just outside Batangas City, and just a few hours from Metro Manila.

Indiscriminate aerial bombardment and relentless offensive operations by the AFP against the New People’s Army (NPA) in the area have forced more than a hundred families in several barangays to evacuate and seek safety from the raging fascists of the AFP. The peasant masses in the vicinity of Mt. Banoy are resisting mining operations and defending their land and the environment.

The Duterte regime has long applied its doctrine of destruction in carrying out bombing runs against the NPA and the peasant masses and minority people communities across the country. They have applied the doctrine in a large scale in the AFP’s four month siege of Marawi. As in Marawi, they are endangering the lives of the people, trampling on their rights and driving them away from their homes.

The bombing run in Batangas City comes at the heels of the September 20 aerial bombardment against the Lumad and peasant communities in Magpet, North Cotabato which targetted the Lumad school Fr. Pops Tentorio Memorial School.

On the significance of the Sept. 21 demonstration

Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
25 September 2017

The demonstrations last September 21 are significant in terms of the large size of the Mendiola and Luneta rallies which condemned Duterte’s tyrannical rule and emerging fascist dictatorship; as well as the small size of the pro-Duterte hakot-crowd simultaneously held near the Malacañang palace.

Despite using government resources, Duterte and his minions could only manage to bus in a crowd of a few thousand. They adopted Marcosian “hakot” tactics, making use of public money to generate a crowd, feed them lugaw and pay for entertainers. No significant Duterte crowd assembled besides that in Manila.

The smallness of the pro-Duterte crowd shows in very clear terms the waning support for the Duterte regime. No “public opinion survey” by paid agencies can obfuscate or downplay this fact. In just over a year, Duterte’s much bragged about 16 million votes has become politically inconsequential. The Duterte hakot crowd is a mere shadow of the 2016 election droves then roused by his promises of change.

Declaring his own “day of protest,” Duterte had wanted to organize a much bigger crowd to slap the face of the Left which he has repeatedly insulted for not having broad support. He failed miserably and succeeded only in further alienating himself from the people. He continues to underestimate the rising opposition to his rule.

On the other hand, despite threats of armed suppression, muddling, fake news campaign and attempt to subvert the Luneta venue, the wide range of forces opposed to Duterte’s fascism, tyranny, corruption and imperialist subservience were able to muster a large demonstration of around 30,000 people.

A large contingent of Moro and other national minority groups joined the demonstration. They are among the biggest victims of Duterte’s triple war of death and destruction. The families and friends of victims of Duterte’s campaign of extrajudicial killings also came to express their indignation against the mass murder regime. Thousands of students from various Metro Manila universities were able to assemble and join despite the fact that classes were cancelled by Duterte.

The Mendiola and Luneta rallyists saw the national democratic mass-based organizations of workers and peasants, urban poor, minority peoples, students, teachers, women, health professionals, church people, human rights advocates and other democratic sectors serve as the large core of the anti-tyranny and anti-Martial Law demonstration. They condemned fascism and bureaucrat capitalism under the Duterte regime. They raised the issue of Duterte’s subservience to US imperialism and its interventionism and fascist security doctrines.

The Luneta demonstration further swelled with the participation of a wide array of social and political forces opposed to the return of martial law under the Duterte regime and its campaign of killings. They have demonstrated courage in the face of Duterte’s threats to use armed suppression against the rallies. They have resolved to shatter their silence by collectively expressing their outcry against Duterte and his martial law machinations and absolute power ambitions. Although political parties and anti-Left forces allied with the previous reactionary regime did not join the Luneta rally, they also held activities to protest political persecution and human rights violations under the Duterte regime.

Anti-tyranny demonstrations last September 21 were also held across the country, from North Luzon to Bicol, in the Visayas islands as well as in cities around Mindanao.

The Duterte regime is acutely aware of the long-term significance of the September 21 demonstrations. Behind the bravado, Duterte trembles at his growing political isolation and the rapid rise of the protest movement against its fascist tyranny, corruption and foreign subservience.

Expect Duterte to go double-time in efforts to divide the ranks of the broad united front. He will seek to confuse the Left by pretending to want to resume peace negotiations with the NDFP. He wants to soon claim victory against the Maute group to justify his Mindanao martial law. He is growing impatient over the AFP’s failure to quickly end its siege of Marawi.

In the face of mounting people’s resistance and Duterte’s heightening desperation to quell the protest movement, declaring martial law remains one of Duterte’s trump card in his gamble to cling to power and perpetuate his tyranny. Doing so, however, will definitely boomerang on him as this will sooner than later incite ever bigger protest actions. Moreover, considering the fractiousness of the AFP and PNP, a declaration of martial law is sure to provoke his rival reactionaries inside and outside the military and police to mount a coup.

Whatever option Duterte chooses, the national democratic forces must continue to broaden and intensify the people’s struggle against the fascist tyranny of the Duterte regime. In the coming weeks and months, they must continue to wage various forms of struggle against Duterte’s triple war of death and destruction. They must continue to raise their voices and protest the relentless campaign of mass murder and extrajudicial killings, aerial bombings, killings of peasant activists, threats against Lumad schools, illegal arrests and political detention.

They can also unleash protest actions against the National ID system which will surely have terrible consequences in the hands of the Duterte tyrannical regime. They must vigorously oppose charter change to pave the way for an extension of Duterte’s term to 2025 under the pretext of shifting to a new form of government.

At the same time, they must fight with all-out energy the Duterte regime’s anti-people and pro-imperialist economic policies, especially the plan to impose additional tax burdens against the people; the plan to allow foreign capitalists to operate domestic public utilities and other policies for all-out liberalization; the anti-worker Compressed Work Week scheme to lengthen the workday to 12 hours; the debt-driven infrastructure projects which are set to displace hundreds of thousands of families of urban poor, peasant and minority people; the proposal to pave the way for the expansion of export-oriented and foreign-owned or -operated plantations; and so on.

Schools, urban poor communities, parishes and other places can serve as centers of political education and organizing to sustain and strengthen the anti-tyranny protest movement. Assemblies can be mounted regularly inside campus colleges and communities in order to draw in the biggest number of people. They can fill ampitheaters and coliseums with large numbers and generate the capacity to hold street demonstrations much larger than September 21 in the coming months.

The national democratic forces must continue to serve as the determined core in the anti-tyranny movement against the Duterte regime. While exposing Duterte’s tyranny, corruption and subervience to US imperialism, they must also exert all out effort to carry out propaganda and education activities to raise the people’s social and historical consciousness, their understanding of the oppressive and exploitative semicolonial and semifeudal system and the need to achieve national and social liberation.

The mass-based organizations are bound to expand by leaps and bounds as large numbers of people seek ways to get involved in the national democratic struggle.

The New People’s Army (NPA) must continue to intensify and advance the people’s war across the country. Duterte’s tyranny and relentless wars are driving the Filipino people to the path of revolutionary armed struggle. Like Marcos with his martial law regime, Duterte is fast becoming the No. 1 recruiter for the NPA. The ranks of NPA Red fighters will continue to swell under the Duterte regime.