The National People's Army (NPA) and National Democratic Front (NDF)

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Guide for establishing the people's democratic government: Part I: General Principles, October 1972. The three articles that represent the general principles upon which the NDFP People's Democratic Government is based.
Guide for establishing the People's Democratic Government: Part II: The System of Government, October 1972. Chapter I: The Central People's Government. Chapter II: The Local Organs of Government. The articles of a political constitution.
Communism in the Philippines: On the Defensive: By Roger Fontaine, The World & I online magazine, March 1989. A mainstream assessment. The tenacious NPA seems to be settling in for the long haul. NPA armed combatants are now estimated at about 23,000, 8,000 of them hard-core regulars; it operates in all provinces, including Metro Manila, and controls perhaps 20 percent of local governments. Its military strength is matched by its political organization and international network of support.
25 Years Of The New People's Army (NPA): Liberation International, March/April 1994. Soon after its own reestablishment on Dec. 26, 1968, the Communist Party of the Philippines organized the New People's Army (NPA) on March 29, 1969, under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought and along the general line of the new-democratic revolution. A protracted people's war, made possible and dictated by the chronically crisis-ridden semicolonial and semifeudal conditions of the Philippines.
Apply the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol I of 1977
: 9 August 1996. The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), in light of the civil war that has been fought since 1969, asks for the application of Geneva conventions.
Communist Group Suspends Peace Talks With Manila
: Reuter, 29 November 1996. National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), an umbrella group of leftist organizations, who have fought since 1975 for working-class government in the Philippines, but in the 1990s have shrunk in size.
Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) celebrates the 28th anniversary of the New People's Army: Maoist Internationalist Movement, 29 March 1997. From 1987 to 1992, an incorrect political-military line dominated the NPA's work. This adventurist line called for a strategic counteroffensive and dichotomized military work from political work. The NPA's incorrect abandonment of mass political work led to a diminishment of the NPA's mass social base, but since 1992, under the leadership of the CPP, the NPA has been undergoing a successful rectification campaign.
Rebel leader returns after 11 years: South China Post, Wednesday 14 January 1998. Luis Jalandoni, chief negotiator for the National Democratic Front (NDF), returned to talk with rebel forces and with human rights groups, accompanied by his wife, Coni Ledesma, another member of the rebel panel holding peace talks with Manila in Holland.
With the New People's Army in the Philippines: Report from a Guerrilla Front: Revolutionary Worker, April 1998. Much of this article reproduces sections from the New People's Army constitution, but with a conclusion on the NPA agrarian revolution at the grassroots and New Power. The barrio, the peasant family and women.
Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the NDF: From the Communist Party of Aotearoa, 24 April 1998. The militants of the 1970 First Quarter storm, were forced underground by Marcos' martial law, but under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines, created the National Democratic Front in 1973 and forged deep roots among wide sectors of the people. The NDF has proved itself the indubitable core of the revolutionary united front for national democratic revolution.
Communist leader rejects Marcos deal: AFP, 3 March 1999. Chief rebel negotiator Luis Jalandoni said the Estrada peace accord violated a March 1998 agreement, based on a US court decision in 1994, which provided for indemnities to those who were tortured or killed while fighting the Marcos dictatorship. The communist New People's Army were shut out of the 1986 transition after they chose to boycott a February 1986 snap presidential election.
Philippine Left Announces Ties with Islamic Rebels: Reuters, 29 March 1999. Party chairman Armando Liwanag (non-de-guerre) announced a military alliance between the NPA and the MILF in the South. Manila had been holding peace talks with both organizations, but had suspended those with the NPA after the NPA seized some army officers.