Bicol revolutionary forces salute the 40th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines

Pakamahalin (Cherish) is a 20-minute film about the New People's Army. An army cherished and loved by the people. Soldiers living simple lives while struggling arduously to defend the people's lives and livelihood. An army composed of ordinary people, treading an extraordinary path of service.

Pakamahalin is a production of the New People's Army - Central Luzon Region in 2005. The film narrates a short history of the NPA and the different characteristics of the people's army.

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Bigwas! (Blow) Produced by Sine Proletaryo
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Challlenged with the Filipino people's growing wrath for its numerous crimes, the entire fascist, puppet and reactionary Arroyo regime desperately and incorrigibly goes on to sow terror: The extent of human rights violations under this administration is unprecedented. More than 800 activists, peoples' rights advocates in the media as well as in the church have been extrajudicially killed. While the number of desaparecidos increases, more persons critical of government are being regarded as enemies of the state and face arrest. Thousands of innocent, helpless civilians' lives and livelihood have been destroyed due to a wide range of abuses perpetrated by no less than police, military or paramilitary elements.

This not only further stokes the raging fires of protest and indignation: Already, the people are submerged in misery. The Philippines is a top hotbed of corruption, where powers-that-be fight over and gobble up the country's wealth while a ballooning majority of the people become poorer as the prices of basic commodities, even services, continue to soar and unemployment is constantly on the rise.

The regime's obvious attempts to suppress the people's discontent through various tactics ranging from lies and deception to the brutal use of so-called 'anti-terror' policies patterned after that of its US master only further awaken and push the masses to revolt.

All these affirm the correctness of all the more intensifying revolutionary armed struggle as the people's ultimate weapon in dealing blows against and overhauling the rotten system: The desperate regime's every act of imisseration of, deception and violence against the Filipino people makes it utterly contemptible as the very representation of a status quo that is bound to fall into pieces. This regime indeed is the number one recruiter of the New People's Army as more and more people turn to the armed revolutionary movement from which the people have come to know and cherish their comrades in life and their defenders against oppressors.

Thus with every single blow dealt by Red fighters on the enemy, especially the AFP and PNP's rabid units and death squads responsible for human rights violations, not only is the capacity of the People's genuine army to fight and win raised. More importantly, the people's confidence and solidarity with their army in waging revolution is raised. A rotten regime is thus isolated, and revolutionary change is further advanced.

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Discipline, courage, and correct analysis: important principles that the people's army adhere to. These are just some of the principles that the revolutionary forces are loved for by the people. These factors, hand in hand with the warm and overflowing support of the community, ensures the victory of a tactical offensive of the New People's Army (NPA) against the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

In July 2006, Pulang Bagani Productions and the Merardo Arce Command - New People's Army Southern Mindanao Region produced OPENSIBA, a coverage of the NPA Mindanao's military campaign against the AFP, Philippine National Police (PNP), and para-military groups of the Macapagal-Arroyo regime. Among the target of these tactical offensives are government units and military officials responsible for the abduction or extra-judicial killing of civilian patriots, activists, and critiques of the administration.

Aside from a short flashback of the Magpet Raid (see Kilab: Magpet Raid) OPENSIBA reports most of the tactical offensives in the region from November 2005 to February 2006. Some of the highlights were the November 11, 2005 raid in Quezon, Bukidnon and the February 5, 2006 raid in Lingig, Surigao Del Sur.

The Bukidnon and Surigao Del Sur raid of government detachments reaped 35 firearms. The NPA controlled the municipal detachments without a single shot being fired from both sides. The latter tactical offensive pinned down an Armed Personnel Carrier (APC) and a 6x6 Infantry truck in a parallel ambush of the government's reinforcement convoy from the 36th Infantry Battalion.

The Merardo Arce Command conducted a total of 125 tactical offensives in the Southern Mindanao Region in 2005 alone. OPENSIBA was produced with the help of the National Democratic Front - Mindanao, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Pulang Bagani Company of the NPA, the Ka Paking Guimbaolibot Red Partisan Brigade, and 14 other NPA Operations Command in Mindanao, Philippines.

For regular news about NPA Mindanao, visit Pasa Bilis at the Philippine Revolution Web Central. Pasa Bilis is the regular newspaper of the revolutionary forces in Mindanao.

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