GRP-NDFP peace talks Archives

Peace is possible after an intense battle

When I went back to Cagayan de Oro, I recalled our visits to Camps Abubakar and Darapanan. It made me believe that the current situation there showed proof that peace is possible even after an intense battle. It made me also think that a similar success may be possible for a group that has been continuing its armed resistance. I hope the Philippine government will consider the resumption of the peace process with the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

Franck Dick Rosete | Mar 23, 2025

NDFP peace consultant, 2 others killed in Cagayan

Ariel Arbitrario, a participant in several formal rounds of peace negotiations between the NDFP and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines from 2016 to 2017 was killed with two others last September 11 in Barangay Baliuag, Peñabalanca, Cagayan, the CPP said.

Raymund Villanueva | Sep 25, 2024

Negotiated peace, not ‘all-out-war’

Throughout his first two years in Malacañang, President Marcos Jr. has stayed silent on the issue of continuing the GRP-NDFP peace talks, which his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, had resumed in 2016 and then backed away from in 2019.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 21, 2024

Is peace adviser spoiling the resumption of talks?

This is the third piece in a row I’ve written about perceivable hindrances to the smooth resumption of formal peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. It had been announced in early December that they had agreed to do so in Oslo, Norway, on Nov. 23.

Bulatlat Contributors | Dec 17, 2023

Groups laud possible resumption of peace talks

Various groups expressed support for the possible resumption of formal peace talks between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

Bulatlat Contributors | Dec 7, 2023

What happened since the collapse of peace talks under Duterte

In the last six years since former President Rodrigo Duterte terminated the peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, their peace consultants, including those who publicly participated in the peace process, were subjected to a series of bloody and vicious attacks.

Bulatlat Contributors | Nov 28, 2023

GRP, NDFP announce possible resumption of peace talks

The document said both parties agree to a principled and peaceful resolution of the nearly 55-year old armed conflict.

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Nov 28, 2023

Groups back Legarda’s call to resume peace talks

Progressives welcomed Sen. Loren Legarda’s call to resume the peace talks between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

Anne Marxze Umil | Sep 4, 2022

Blood Rush | RIP, FVR (12th president of my very sad republic)

We don't owe the Joint Hague Declaration solely to FVR. But that he enabled that part of our history, which, to my mind is our march toward just peace, is a legacy that each president of the Philippines after FVR must be measured against.

Sarah Raymundo | Aug 1, 2022

Prospects for peace seem dim under Marcos Jr. administration

It has been more than a week since Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son, and namesake of the late dictator, was inaugurated. But prospects for peace remain uncertain with the newly-installed administration neither having a peace adviser nor a clear stance on how it will proceed with the peace process.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 10, 2022

Duterte advice to successor: resume peace negotiations

President Duterte has just over a month to go in his six-year term. He could help much in enabling the succeeding administration to resume the GRP-NDFP peace talks, by removing a number of obstacles that his presidency has put in place.

Bulatlat Contributors | May 1, 2022

NDFP demands Loida Magpatoc’s release

NDFP Negotiating Panel interim chairperson Julie de Lima said Loida Magpatoc is a member of the NDFP Reciprocal Working Committee on Social and Economic Reform and should be immune from arrest.

Raymund Villanueva | Sep 16, 2021

Duterte, not the Reds, obstacle to peace

“It is important that peace talks continue as this is one of the avenues to resolve the roots of armed conflict.”

Anne Marxze Umil | Dec 31, 2020

Church leaders express alarm at ‘reign of unpeace’ during Advent

Church leaders expressed alarm and concern at the deteriorating prospects for peace as shown by the Rodrigo Duterte government’s demonization of human rights.

Raymund Villanueva | Dec 17, 2020

‘A revolutionary and peace warrior’: Tributes pour in for NDFP’s Fidel Agcaoili

“Ka Fidel V. Agcaoili, my counterpart in the peace table in our efforts to try to end the decades-long armed conflict with the CPP-NPA (New People’s Army)-NDF, was a man of honor and conviction.” -- government negotiator Silvestre Bello III

Raymund Villanueva | Jul 24, 2020

Ambivalence toward the Left and peace talks

Over the last four years of Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s presidency, we may have gotten used to seeing, hearing, or reading about how he has tended to say one thing and, in the same instance, he walks back on that statement and states the opposite. This happened again...

Bulatlat Contributors | Jul 11, 2020

Reds say no basis yet to reciprocate government’s unilateral ceasefire

Jose Maria Sison said the NDFP is not assured and satisfied that the ceasefire announcement is based on national unity against Covid-19, the appropriate solution of the pandemic as a medical problem and the protection of the most vulnerable sectors of the population, including workers, health workers, those with any serious ailments and the political prisoners.

Raymund Villanueva | Mar 19, 2020

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Dee Ayroso | Jan 13, 2020

Mapping the course: Peace talks and red bashing

Peace talks comes primarily because in the country’s hinterlands, a people’s army, guided by a communist party, is building organs of democratic political power. And in various sites, the communist bid for land redistribution, national industrialization, and a participatory planned economy through socialism is paralleled by organized, institutionalized and legitimate endeavors pursuing the same vision. This is enough for a government that is provisionally hijacked by compradors and imperialists to talk peace and reforms.

Sarah Raymundo | Dec 23, 2019

GRP arrests 2 NDFP staffs

“Even after they argued that the warrant was outdated and showed the dismissal order, they were taken to Camp Caringal where the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit and the District Special Operations Unit desperately scrambled to add charges."

Raymund Villanueva | Jul 24, 2019

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