We have received confirmed information that early this morning, combat troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines attacked a unit of the New People's Army in Barangay Cabacao in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro. The NPA unit was able to withdraw from the site, although we are still ascertaining details of their condition.

The unit of the NPA was in the area observing the CPP's unilateral ceasefire declaration (December 31 and January 1), and took advantage of the opportunity to render medical and other services to the local communities, mostly Mangyan people, and mark with them the turn of the new year.

The attack of the AFP shattered the peace in the area. In addition to unleashing a heavy volume of gunfire, the AFP deployed helicopter gunships to strafe and fire rockets, in complete disregard for civilian communities in the vicinity, causing stress and traumatizing residents.

Marco L. Valbuena, Chief Information Officer
Communist Party of the Philippines

January 01, 2026

Condemn US imperialism for the bombing of Caracas and the patently illegal abduction of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro!

Marco L. Valbuena, Chief Information Officer
Communist Party of the Philippines

January 03, 2026

With all its strength, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the US imperialist government under the fascist madman Donald Trump for carrying out the early morning bombing around the Venezuela's capital city of Caracas, and perpetrating the patently illegal abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. A number of civilians have reported to have been killed in the attack. Simultaneous attacks were carried out by the US in the Venezuelan states of Miranda, La Guaira and Aragua.

This US armed assault is a brazen violation of Venezuela's sovereignty. It was carried out on the false pretext of waging a war against drug trafficking, in much the same way that the US carried out its invasion against Iraq almost exactly 30 years ago, on the false justification of searching for imaginary weapons of mass destruction.

The clear aim of the US is to overthrow the Maduro government which has distinguished itself for having upheld the Bolivarian revolution and militantly defended Venezuela's sovereignty. The US has long shamelessly declared its intention of effecting "regime change" in Venezuela.

For many years now, it has subjected the country to crippling economic sanctions, sabotage, diplomatic pressure, and open threats of military intervention. Having failed in the past to assassinate Maduro, or win a majority for the US-funded candidates in previous elections, the Trump government has now carried barefaced military intervention to abduct Maduro and remove him from power.

The US imperialists hope to break the will of the Venezuelan people and suppress Venezuela's assertion of national sovereignty. They plan to orchestrate and fund an "unheaval" to install a puppet regime, that will allow US corporations to grab the country's vast oil reserves (the world's biggest), and take away the resources that fund Venezuela's free medical system, free education and other social guarantees.

However, the military aggression and abduction of Maduro by the US imperialists is only certain to ignite the patriotic anger of the Venezuelan people and unite them in resistance against US imperialism. They are certain to gain the support people of various Latin American countries, who have had their share of US imperialist oppression.

The Party, the broad masses of the Filipino people and their revolutionary forces stand in militant solidarity with the people of Venezuela, who have long marched under the Bolivarian flag of anti-imperialist resistance.

The Party calls on all democracy- and freedom-loving Filipinos to stand by the side of the Venezuelan people and condemn the US armed assault in Caracas and abduction of Maduro. They must support the Venezuelan people in their assertion of their right to determine their own destiny, free from imperialist sanctions, blockades and military and pressure from the US and its cohorts.

The Filipino people must denounce the puppet Marcos regime for hosting US military bases, and allowing the US to station troops and US large-scale weapons in the country, turning the country into a target of US rivals. The Marcos government must be condemned for any actuation supportive of US intervention in Venezuela or other parts of the world.

The Party, furthermore, call on the Filipino people to join ranks with peoples across the world in denouncing US wars of intervention and threats of war in all parts of the world. Even now, the fascist madman Trump has declared that the US is ready to carry out armed intervention in Iran, purportedly in support of anti-government demonstrators. It also continues to build up its military and naval strength in the South China Sea, increasing the possibility of igniting an armed conflict with China.

The Party urges revolutionary forces around the world, national liberation movements, and progressive organizations around the world to rouse the peole in support of Venezuela's resistance to US armed aggression. The Party calls on the American people, in particular, to denounce the Trump government, and manifest their denunciation of US military intervention.

The Party and the Filipino people must strengthen and advance the national democratic struggle in the Philippines, as the most profound contribution to the worldwide fight against imperialism and fascism.#

People's outrage against corruption and abuses reflected in pro-NPA trends on social media

Marco L. Valbuena, Chief Information Officer
Communist Party of the Philippines

January 04, 2026

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) does not have the wherewithal to mount a massive social media campaign, as imagined by the NTF-Elcac in a recent statement. Unlike the NTF-Elcac, we do not, and cannot, set up troll farms, dozens of interlinked pages or engage in other expensive social media tactics to "orchestrate" and "synchronize" to make a solid dent on these platforms. That is more the NTF-Elcac's speed, than the CPP and NPA.

The NTF-Elcac should remember that, through their representation, the CPP and NPA have long been censored from Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. All our attempts to set up accounts, pages or groups on these platforms have been shot down at every turn.

Any content linking to the website of the Party <https://cpp.ph or https://philippinerevolution.nu> is automatically censored and prevented from being posted. Through the National Security Council and the National Telecommunications Commission, they even went to the extent of blocking the domain "cpp.ph" alongside other progressive websites in 2022, a move that was declared illegal and ordered rescinded by a recent court ruling.

Having said that, we indeed noticed over the past few weeks a conspicuous rise in comments and posts on Facebook that were in many ways agreeable to the CPP and the New People's Army. This happily coincided with the CPP anniversary as text, graphics and videos were posted marking the occasion. (1/2)

We noted that most of these comments that favored joining or supporting the CPP and NPA are largely expressions of anger and frustration against corruption under the Marcos regime and abuses by military and police personnel. These comments were posted by ordinary people, as shown by their profiles. They express disenchantment over the current rotten system and a wish for a revolution to change the situation in the country.

The apparent trend over the past weeks favoring the CPP and NPA is an outcry from people who are fed up with the flood control anomalies, the high-living of the ruling classes, the police and military abuses, the dispossession of people's livelihood, plunder of the nation's wealth, high prices, joblessness, onerous taxes and lack of public services. To dissuade the people from expressing their sentiments, the AFP today issued a blanket threat against anyone "inciting people to overthrow the government," which reveals their mortal fear of people rising up against them.

We urge the people to continue to creatively and safely use social media platforms to express their outrage against their oppressors and the oppressive system. More importantly, we call on the people to continue forming themselves into organizations to more effectively fight for their cause.

The NTF-Elcac dismisses and ignores the people's sentiments as "mere propaganda," as it defends the semicolonial and semifeudal system that continues to subject people to increasingly intolerable conditions. It reveals itself to be a Marcos tool to silence dissent and maintain his grip on power.

It is the people's sufferings under the corrupt and fascist Marcos regime that are rousing them to support or join the revolution. Indeed, Marcos has become the number one recruiter for the CPP and NPA. The longer that he stays in power, the more people are drawn to the calls to resist in all forms available to them, including fighting with arms, to defend their interests and attain their aspirations. (2/2)

Corruption, injustice, abuses drive Filipino youth to revolution

Marco L. Valbuena, Chief Information Officer
Communist Party of the Philippines

January 10, 2026

Over the past week or two, the US-Marcos regime has mounted a frenzied media and social media campaign to intimidate and threaten the Filipino youth, who, more and more are growing disenchanted amid deep and widespread social ills, and are being drawn to question the rotten ruling system and seek radical and revolutionary ways to end corruption, injustice and abuses by those in power.

This campaign to intimidate and threaten the Filipino youth is part of Marcos' arsenal of fascist tactics to maintain his grip on power and preserve the ruling system, by suppressing the youth's and people's aspirations for change.

This blatant assault against the youth is spearheaded by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the NTF-Elcac, and their mercenary hacks behind the Marcos government's propaganda machinery. They have mobilized funds to activate and coordinate their social media troll army to drown out posts critical of the Marcos government in a deluge of spam comments, and throw their weight around to push their narrative in the press and public discourse.

The Marcos psyops campaign heightened after a student researcher from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 22-year old Jerlyn Rose Doydora, died on January 1 in Abra de Ilog, Mindoro Occidental, amid relentless aerial bombing and strafing by the AFP, following an armed encounter. Another youth, 24-year old Chantal Anicoche, was taken into custody by the fascist soldiers, and illegally detained for a week, before being surfaced amid public outcry. Three Mangyan children were reportedly killed in the aerial bombing which was carried out in the proximity of mountain communities.

These are just the latest of the grave abuses being committed by Marcos' armed forces in Mindoro and in other parts of the country. In its desperation to cover up their fascist crimes, the AFP imposed an information blackout on Abra de Ilog, using brazen state terrorism and martial law tactics. These include the use of the old Marcosian trick of bussing in civilians to stage "rallies," to obstruct, intimidate and suppress the efforts of various democratic organizations and human rights groups seeking to conduct an independent fact-finding investigation into the incidents. The fascist regime wants to make it appear that people approve of the military's control of their communities, or that they support the planned mining operations and "renewable energy" projects of big business operations that will drive them away from their land.

The death of Jerlyn and the illegal military incarceration of Chantal has put to spotlight how growing numbers of young intellectuals today have become disillusioned with the reactionary government's lies and deception, and critical of its policies. This has become particularly conspicuous over the past few months as thousands of young people walked out of their university campuses and joined street marches in outrage over cases of large-scale corruption. (1/n)

They have lent their voices to the Filipino peoples' clamor for justice. While Marcos, his fellow bureaucrat capitalists and their big bourgeois comprador accomplices amass hundreds billions of pesos from rigged government contracts, majority of the Filipino people toil day in and day out to survive increasingly intolerable social and economic conditions.

The burgeoning youth rebellion is bound to grow. Like many young people around the globe, the Filipino Gen-Zs are breaking out of their digital shells and establishing real world networks with their fellow youth, as well as with the broad masses of the people. Amid corruption, injustice and abuse of power, many young intellectuals are adopting a socially critical mindset and have become acutely aware of the gross social ills plaguing the country, of the iniquitous ownership and distribution of the country's resources, and the oppressive conditions suffered by the masses of toiling people under the minority ruling classes who hold economic and political power.

They are critically aware how workers wages are being kept low despite the rise in the cost of living, how millions are idled by the lack of jobs and forced to eke out a living as contractual, outsourced, gig or platform workers, how peasants suffer from landlessness, dispossession and militarization, how fisherfolk are deprived of their fishing grounds by big capitalist trawlers, how jeepney drivers are being dislocated by corporate takeover of their routes and franchises, and myriad other forms of injustices suffered by the oppressed classes. They youth themselves suffer from these conditions. Millions are denied their right to education. The small percentage who make it to universities suffer repression and face the bleak prospects of decent employment. Under the priorities of the Marcos fascist regime, the only certain prospect is to join the police, military or paramilitary force, to serve as spies, foot soldiers or cannon fodder against their fellow oppressed people.

Fueled by heightening imperialist hegemonism in all parts of the world, and US military intervention in the Philippines, rising numbers of young Filipinos are breaking free from the colonial mindset---imposed on every Filipino since childhood---and embrace patriotism in its stead. They are growing indignant over the imperialist US support for the genocide against Palestine and its military aggression against the sovereign state of Venezuela. They are enraged especially by barefaced US military intervention in the Philippines and armed provocations in Asia, dragging the country to the possibility of war which serves US strategic geopolitical, falsely portrayed as "defense of Philippine freedom."

They are finding themselves reconnected with the country's history as a colony and semicolony of foreign imperial powers, who plundered and condemned the country to a permanent state of economic backwardness and dependence. The Filipino people's aspiration for genuine national freedom and social justice burns steadily in their hearts. More and more young Filipinos are united with the broad masses in the fervent desire to change the course of the country's history, in the resistance to end the reign of corruption, abuse, injustice and foreign domination, and determination to usher in a new era of sovereignty, progress and modernity.

The Filipino people and youth have witnessed in past weeks how Marcos is using the whole range of state power to preserve the system of corruption and abuse, even amid the people's uproar. Some lower-tier thieves have been scapegoated and turned to sacrificial lambs, even as high-ranking bureaucrat capitalists continue to rake in in billions of pesos in kickbacks, pork barrel and other forms of corruption. (2/n)

Many young intellectuals have become keenly aware of the limits of their social and political power to change society. They seek to build solidarity with the millions of workers, peasants, the semi-proletariat in both cities and countryside, the fisherfolk, the indigenous people and other oppressed and exploited classes who comprise the majority of the people.

The Marcos fascist regime, especially its armed forces, holds the socially critical youth in complete contempt and a threat to their rule. They malign young intellectuals as "victims of ideological grooming," as if they are mindless sheep. To deflect blame for their crimes, they have gone to the extent of intimidating the parents of victims of state terrorism, coercing them to depict their own children as lacking the agency for independent and critical thought, or the ability to commit themselves to something greater than themselves--the people's cause for genuine freedom and democracy.

The Filipino people and their young intellectuals will have none of fascist intimidation and threats. History has shown that attempts to suppress the intellectuals have succeeded only in further stimulating their critical and inquisitive minds. There is bound to emerge a strong current of young students, teachers, academics, scientists and other intellectuals flowing to urban poor and rural communities to investigate, see for themselves the concrete problems of the people, and learn from the masses the crucial importance of getting organized and waging collective struggle as a way of fighting for their interests.

Not a few academics, researchers, journalists, students, scientists, even lower officials of the government agencies have visited units of the New People's Army to gain a deeper understanding of revolutionary views, and the reasons that compel ordinary people to wage armed revolution. Many continue to be drawn to the path of resistance not because of some scheme of "deception" and "manipulation," rather because the revolutionary ideas promoted by the CPP and NPA reflect the people's desire for national freedom and democracy. The people and the youth will embrace only those ideas that express their hopes and aspirations. Many from the current generation of young Filipinos see the revolution as the only path towards attaining the people's aspirations for a free and prosperous future, and have committed themselves to face all the hardship and sacrifices to march along this difficult road.

More and more people see Marcos, along with the AFP, the PNP, NTF-Elcac and other repressive agencies, as the epitome of government corruption, injustice, abuse and subservience to foreign powers. As in the past, it is the oppression and intolerable conditions under Marcos that rouse the people to join the NPA and wage revolution. Indeed by negative example, Marcos has virtually become the number one recruiter of the New People's Army.

We call on the Filipino youth to continue sharpening their scientific minds and reject attempts to stifle their critical thinking. Deepen your understanding of the country's history and the current concrete conditions of the broad masses of the people under semicolonial and semifeudal system. Study and learn from the masses, and determine for yourself, the profound necessity of waging the people's democratic revolution. (3/3)