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 6×6 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.

Watch OPENSIBA

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.

Photos show Dutch operatives loading computers seized from the offices and houses of NDF International Information office and the houses of Filipino refugees. The raid was simultaneous with the “gestapo-style” arrest of Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Chief Political Consultant of the NDFP negotiating panel, on the morning of August 27 on the basis of trumped-up charges by the Philippine government.

In 2003, documentarist Ed Lingao trekked the Cordilleras to interview Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal and Ka Filiw, spokespersons of the CPP and the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF) respectively. In this 1 hour documentary by ABS-CBN’s The Correspondents, Lingao chats with Ka Roger and other red fighters in a light discussion about their lives and experience in the revolutionary movement.

Dagundong ng Bikol’s June 2007 video broadcast at the ISNAYP Rebolusyonaryong Midya ng Bikol Website (http://isnayp.blogspot.com) talks about OPlan Bantay Laya II, the US backed Macapagal-Arroyo regime’s bloody counter-insurgency program.

Though Oplan Bantay Laya have been terrorizing the countryside and destroying people’s livelihood, the people and revolutionary forces have remained steadfast in combating the terror brought about by this counter-insurgency program.

A comic and animated segment of the broadcast discuss Oplan Bantay Laya’s components, tactics, and lies. Broadcast editorial talks about how the people can confront the Macapagal-Arroyo regime’s blood thirsty operations plan.

The NPA’s raid of Filmenara Corp’s environmentally destructive mining operation is featured in the regular Sulo Kan Pakikibaka News segment.

ISNAYP Rebolusyonaryong Midya ng Bikol (Bicol Revolutionary Media) is now broadcasting videos via the internet at http://isnayp.blogspot.com. Browse, watch, and download video documentaries about the Philippine revolution. From tactical offensives of the New People’s Army in the Bicol region and Mindanao to the video presentation of the 12 Point Program of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

ISNAYP also hosts the regular broadcast of the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army in the Bicol region. The broadcast, named DAGUNDONG ng Bikol, contain news, short drama, music videos commentaries, and public service segments.

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