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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), the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist [3][9] Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It is the world's longest ongoing communist ...
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 ...
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.
Explosion. A motorboat carrying ten members of the New People's Army (NPA) exploded on August 21, 2022 off the waters of Catbalogan, Samar. There is conflicting information regarding to the circumstances leading to the explosion from both the Philippine military and the Communist rebels.
James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe (February 8, 1938 – April 21, 1989) was a United States Army officer and one of only 34 American prisoners of war to escape captivity during the Vietnam War. Colonel Rowe was credited with developing the rigorous US Army Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training program taught to high-risk military ...
March 28 – The Philippine Army pulled out some of its troops in Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, considered a stronghold of the NPA to boost the security forces in neighboring Canlaon after a series of shootings that killed 3 and injured another. March 28 – NPA rebels set up checkpoints in Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur and Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur.
The New People's Army initially had only 60 guerrillas and 35 WWII-era guns, [19] which they all soon lost in an encounter against the Armed Forces of the Philippines. [20] 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 ...
Buscayno's group officially became the New People's Army (NPA) on March 29, 1969. [6] From a group composed of about 35 members with only 10 rifles among them, the NPA grew up to about 26,000 members in its peak in the 1980s and spread throughout the Philippines, challenging the Marcos regime during the Martial Law years. [4]