In a statement, NPA spokesperson Ka Oris (Jorge Madlos) said the rebel army’s National Operation Command “unilaterally declares to all commands and units of the NPA and the people’s militia a ceasefire in observance of the Filipino people’s traditional holidays and the Party’s 49th anniversary.

“Duterte and his military officers are urging their troops to attack the people´s army and the communities where it is suspected to be,” Sison said.

"During this period, all NPA units and people’s militias shall cease and desist from carrying out offensive military campaigns and operations against the uniformed armed personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and its paramilitaries, and the Philippine National Police (PNP) of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines," read the CPP announcement.

...the two negotiating panels were about to make the biggest advance in the peace process by finalizing and initialing the drafts of the general amnesty to release all the political prisoners listed by the NDFP, Part I Agrarian Reform and Rural Development and Part II National Industrialization and Economic Development of the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER) and the Coordinated Unilateral Ceasefires (as prelude to a bilateral ceasefire agreement)...

'If Duterte will just review what the two panels were about to succeed in doing, baka naman mag-change ang isip niya,' CPP founding chairman Joma Sison tells Rappler in an interview

“Dapat mas madiin ang pagpapatigil sa garapal na kriminalidad ni Duterte,” kumento ni Prof. Sison. Dagdag niya, ¨Dapat kumilos ang mga tao at lider ng Simbahang Katoliko para labanan ang pagpaslang kay Fr. Tito Paez at Fr. Novelito Quinones at matagalang detensyon ni Bishop Morales. Sina Fr. Paez at Bishop Morales ay mga ecumenical partner ng Simbahang Katoliko.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), would ignore their designation as “terrorist” groups, said CPP founder Jose Maria Sison.

By Emily Rauhala February 26 MANILA — Once, when Rodrigo Duterte got to talking about his anti-drug campaign, he mused about murdering his children. If...