TITLE:

RAISING AWARENESS ON
LOCAL COMMUNIST
ARMED CONFLICT

Theme:
UNDERSTANDING EMERGING TRENDS
IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE OF 21ST
CENTURY”
COMMUNISM IN THE PHILIPPINES
-Communism in the Philippines emerged in the first half of the
20th century during the American Colonial Era of the Philippines.
-Communist movements originated in labor unions and peasant
groups. Currently the communist movement is underground and
considered an insurgent movement by the Armed Forces of the
Philippines.
WHAT IS ARMED CONFLICT?
An armed conflict is a contested incompatibility that
concerns government. and/or territory where the use
of armed force between two parties, of which at least one
is the government of a state.
ARMED CONFLICTS
-The Government of the Philippines is involved in multiple non-
international armed conflicts in Mindanao against the Moro
National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front,
the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, the Maute Group and
the Abu Sayyaf Group.
WHAT IS NPA, CPP AND NDFP?
NPA
- NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY

CPP
-COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES

NDFP
-NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE
PHILIPPINES
HISTORY OF LOCAL COMMUNIST
ARMED CONFLICT (CPP-NPA, NDFP)
 The CPP-NPA was established by Jose Maria Sison, (a
popular former student activist). 
 Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP)
-was established in 1930
-In 1957, Republic Act No. 1700 banned the PKP and any of
its successors, which would later include the CPP-NPA from
participating in politics.
-In 1967, Sison proposed major changes within the PKP.
Allegedly, Sison called to reestablish the Communist
movement properly in the Philippines.
 The CPP-NPA was originally based in the city of Capas on
the Philippines’ largest island, Luzon, and it began with sixty
combatants and thirty-five rifles.
 In 1970, Sison outlined the CPP-NPA’s guiding
principles in a book called Philippine Society and
Revolution.
 He identified three major problems in the Philippines:
bureaucrat capitalism, feudalism, and U.S. imperialism.
 In February 1971, Sison met with CPP-NPA Central
Committee members to discuss his plan to attack a rally
held in Manila by the Liberal Party, which opposed
President Marcos.
 In 1973, a commission created by the CPP-NPA founded
the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF
or NDFP). Attempting to unify and coordinate various
leftist groups, the NDF served as an umbrella
organization for the CPP-NPA and other mass
revolutionary organizations.
 The Philippine government, among others, has used the
name “CPP-NPA-NDF” or “CNN” to refer to the larger
entity formed through the cooperation of the CPP-NPA
and the NDF.
 In 1974, Sison published Specific Characteristics of Our
People’s War, in which he outlined the CPP-NPA’s first
five years and set out policies for continued armed
struggle.
 On January 17, 1981, Marcos formally ended martial
law, thus allowing some room for political expression by
the opposition and alleviating pressure on the CPP-NPA.
 On July 24, 2018, the Philippine House of
Representatives passed the Bangsamoro Organic Law
(BOL), the final name of the former BBL.
-This replaced the former Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and created a Muslim
regional entity in Mindanao.
WHAT IS NPA (NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY)?
- is a left-wing, communist-based, revolutionary organization that
operates under the direction of the Communist Party of the
Philippines (CPP).

- It was formed on March 29, 1969, primarily as the military

fighting section of the CPP, but also with secondary duties in
organizing and propaganda.

- The objective of the NPA is to reverse injustices dealt to the

Filipino people by the Philippine government and the capitalist class
such as the large landlord/property owners.

- The three perceived injustices it is primarily fighting against are

bureaucrat-capitalism, imperialism, and semi-feudal landlordism.
WHAT DOES NPA DO?
 The NPA, as the central agent of armed struggle, serves
to achieve its central task of "destroying and dismantling
the rule of the enemy and taking their political power".
WHAT IS CPP?
- The Communist Party of the Philippines (Filipino:
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas), is a revolutionary
organization and communist party in the Philippines,
formed by Jose Maria Sison on 26 December 1968. The
CPP has been fighting a guerrilla war against the state
since its establishment.
WHAT DOES CPP DO?
- The Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s
Army (CPP-NPA) seeks to overthrow the Philippine
government in favor of a new state led by the working
class and to expel U.S. influence from the Philippines.

- The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) was

founded in 1968, and its armed wing, the New People’s
Army (NPA), was founded in the following year.
Because the party and its armed wing are so closely
intertwined, they are often referred to together as the
CPP-NPA.
WHAT IS NDFP?
-The National Democratic Front of the Philippine is a
coalition of revolutionary social and economic justice
organizations, agricultural unions, trade unions,
indigenous rights groups, leftist political parties, and
other related groups in the Philippines.
WHAT DOES NDFP DO?
Its primary work includes expanding political work in the
cities through workers' strikes, student boycotts and
protests, and actively aiding the revolution in the
countryside.
WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF LOCAL
COMMUNIST?
- seeks to overthrow the Philippine
government in favor of a new people’s
democratic state led by the working class,
and the group also seeks to expel U.S.
influence from the Philippines. Its other
goals include redistributing land to the
landless poor and initiating a cultural
revolution