CCP-NPA: The Lost Cause

[Gildarts Tale]

The CCP NPA is not a romantic revolution. It is a lost cause that has consumed generations of young Filipinos, especially students who were made to believe they were simply fighting for justice, only to be slowly pulled into underground networks and armed struggle.


Testimonies from captured and former rebels should not be dismissed lightly. They describe a pattern that many families have feared for years: recruitment begins in schools, activist circles, and student organizations, then moves deeper into ideological work, underground operations, and eventually the NPA.


This issue is serious because it is not just about politics. It is about young people being led into a path where the ending is often prison, violence, or death.


What makes this even more dangerous is how some networks and voices in the Philippines continue to romanticize this lost cause. They dress it up as heroism, revolution, resistance, or service to the people, while ignoring the ruined lives, grieving families, abandoned education, and young people who never make it back home.


Romanticizing rebellion is not courage. Enabling recruitment pipelines is not activism. Defending an armed movement while young Filipinos are being pulled deeper into underground networks is not compassion. It is deception dressed as advocacy.


The death of UP student leader Alyssa Alano in the April 19 encounter in Toboso, Negros Occidental brought this issue back into public attention. Authorities say the clash involved alleged NPA members, while rights groups dispute parts of that account. But one thing remains painfully clear: when students end up in armed conflict zones, something has gone terribly wrong long before the gunfire starts.


The allegations involving groups and personalities linked to the Makabayan bloc should be examined seriously and fairly. No one should be condemned without evidence, but no one should be above scrutiny either. If former rebels are testifying that recruitment pipelines exist, then the public deserves answers.


Real advocacy does not need to hide behind underground networks. Real concern for workers, farmers, students, and the poor does not require sending young people into the mountains to fight a war that has only brought more broken families and dead bodies.


The CCP NPA has failed the Filipino people. Its ideology promised liberation but delivered fear, deception, and graves. The youth deserve education, opportunity, reform, and truth. Not recruitment into a dying rebellion.


Stop romanticizing the lost cause. Stop enabling the deception. Expose the network. Protect the students. End the deception.

 

[KingSemreh]

CPP-NPA has become a major source of funds for those in positions of power and for politicians who manipulate the system. It operates much like a mafia. Recruitment continues because, otherwise, a significant flow of donations and collections would stop. Students are being convinced and influenced by an idealized ideology promoted by the CPP-NPA, making poor but intelligent young learners believe that the movement’s actions and supposed successes are the solution to the problems people are currently experiencing.