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The New People's Army ( Filipino: Bagong Hukbong Bayan ), abbreviated NPA or BHB, is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). [14] : 119 It acts as the CPP's principal organization, aiming to consolidate political power from what it sees as the present "bourgeois reactionary puppet government" and to aid in the " people's ...
The New People's Army rebellion (often shortened to NPA rebellion, among other acronym-based names) is an ongoing conflict between the government of the Philippines and the New People's Army (NPA), which is the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist [3] [9] Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It is the world's longest ongoing ...
On 29 March 1969, the New People's Army was established and on 24 April 1973 the National Democratic Front (Philippines). Afterwards, the CPP launched the "protracted people's war" a strategical line developed by Mao Zedong during the phase of guerrilla warfare of the Chinese Communist Party. The eventual objective is to install a "people's ...
27–29 August – Communist guerrillas conducted two ambushes on units of the Philippine Constabulary (PC) in Pampanga and Subic, Zambales. Six PC members were killed and four wounded. [citation needed] 10 November - CPP chairman Jose Maria Sison is arrested at a roadside checkpoint in San Fernando, La Union.
The New People's Army initially had only 60 guerrillas and 35 WWII-era guns, which they all soon lost in an encounter against the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The NPA tried to follow the Maoist military doctrine of "establishing stable base areas," but they took heavy casualties in Northern Luzon as a result, and abandoned the Maoist ...
The armed conflict of the New People's Army against the Philippine government can be traced back to March 29, 1969, when Jose Maria Sison's newly formed CPP entered an alliance with a small armed group led by Bernabe Buscayno. But the conflict was still in its infancy in 1972 when Ferdinand Marcos proclaimed Martial law.
Battles/wars. New People's Army rebellion. Jose Maria Canlas Sison ( Tagalog: [hoˈse mɐˈɾija ˈkɐnlas ˈsisɔn]; February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022), also known as Joma, was a Filipino writer, poet, and activist who founded and led the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy—which would ...
The triumvirate of the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People's Army, and the National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) has been waging a rebellion against the Philippine government for decades. Under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine government has engaged with peace talks with the CPP-NPA-NDF.