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The New People's Army is the revolutionary army of the Filipino people under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

In carrying out the revolutionary armed struggle, the NPA follows the general line of the new democratic revolution through protracted people's war. It is the principal instrument in implementing the revolutionary program for land reform, the main democratic agenda of the people's revolution.

Red fighters of the NPA are principally drawn from among the peasant masses. The correctness and need to carry out revolutionary armed struggle and the justness of the work of the NPA also inspires workers, students-youth, teachers and other professionals to join the revolutionary army.

The NPA was established in March 29, 1969 with 60 Red fighters armed with 9 automatic rifles and 26 single-shot rifles and handguns. By carrying out tactical offensives, the NPA is able to accumulate arms and weaken the reactionary mercenary troops.

Currently, the NPA has a sum total of at least three divisions or nine brigades or 27 battalions of full-time Red fighters with high-powered rifles. These are augmented by tens of thousands in the people's militias and further on by hundreds of thousands in self-defense units of the mass organizations.

Membership is open to all persons aged 18 years old and above, physically and mentally fit, willing and ready to fight for freedom.
 Updates on the 39th year of the NPA
Developments in the work of the New People's Army
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Armed Struggle ...more
Davao del Sur
Ambushcade		 February 2, 2008. The NPAs killed Sr. Insp. Emelix Mabalot, Chief of Police of Bansalan PNP and two other policemen when the guerillas fired upon the policemen at Sitio Balagunon, Barangay Manaca, Bansalan.
Nueva Ecija
Ambushcade		 January 31, 2008. A soldier of the 71st IB PA was killed while two others were wounded when a team of NPAs ambushed the truck of the AFP soldiers in Barangay Labi, Bongabon.
Bukidnon
Encounter turned Offensive		 January 30, 2008. A soldier died while another was wounded when Red fighters engaged soldiers from the 29th IB PA in a firefight at Barangay Tugaya, Valencia City.
Davao City
Ambushcade		 January 29, 2008. Six soldiers from the 1003rd Brigade of the AFP and a CAFGU were wounded when NPAs exploded a landmine in Pañalam-Paquibato road in Paquibato District.
Mass Base Building ...more
Mindanao Island
Advancing Mindanao		 2008 Situation. The revolutionary forces in Mindanao now operate in more than 2,000 barrios in 200 cities and municipalities in 19 provinces in the island, with a mass base totalling more than 600,000 people. People's revolutionary governments have been set up in guerrilla fronts with revolutionary committees formed in the municipal, inter-barrio and mostly barrio levels.
North Eastern Mindanao
Advancing NEM		 2008 Situation. In North-Eastern Mindanao, the New People's Army -- the true Soldiers of the people – is advancing, with a mass base in the hundreds of thousands to depend on. In 2008, the number of those who joined the NPA increased...
Panay Island
Gains		 2008 Situation. The CPP's membership in the island of Panay has tripled since 2001.
Negros Island
Gains		 2008 Situation. Guerrilla bases and guerrilla zones are being formed in guerrilla fronts that have a 120,000 or more mass base each and encompassing almost 10 congressional districts.
Agrarian Revolution ...more
Mindanao
Gains		 2008. Hundreds of thousands of peasant masses have benefited from the minimum program of agrarian revolution.
North Eastern Mindanao
Agrarian Revolution Gains		 2008. "...not less than 80,000 people benefitting from the agrarian revolution in the mountains and countrysides with the reduction of rent of land and other tools of production, decreasing usury and prices of goods, increasing wages of agricultural workers, increasing production and prices of farm products and many others."...
Panay Island
Gains		 2008. From land wrested from the Philippine Army's 3rd Infantry Division and comprador and landlord landgrabbers, the masses have developed through cooperative effort permanent farms of long-term crops and sustainable agriculture from previous kaingin-based farming.
Negros Island
Gains		 2008. As a result of their organized collective struggle, more or less 30,000 people have benefited from antifeudal campaigns to raise wages of farm workers, reduce usury, raise prices of farm produce, gain subsidies from the local reactionary governments and resist attempts at land-grabbing of their farms.