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The Hukbalahap were Marxist-Leninists.
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===[[File:Cball-Philippines.png|link=https://polcompball.fandom.com/wiki/File:Cball-Philippines.png]] The Philippines===
[[File:NPAlogo.png|left|thumb|200x200px|The logo of the New People's Army, featuring a red triangle with three golden stars, with a rifle and pointed weapon coming out of it. The words at the bottom simply translate to New People's Army]]
The New People's Army was a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist armed force, which serves as the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. The party split from the [[File: ML.png]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukbalahap Hukbalahap] Filipino: ''The Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon'' English: ''The People's Army Against Japan''. The Hukbalahap was to be part of a broad united front resistance to the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Following the war, Huk veterans weren't given pensions by the government and were denied seats in parliament, which led to the resurgence of their armed resistance, which ended due to a fierce anti-communist operation supported by the United States under the government of Ramon Magsaysay. The Hukbalahap was the armed wng of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Komunista_ng_Pilipinas-1930 PKP-1930] (Partido Komunista Pilipinas). The Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 (PKP-1930), also known as the Philippine Communist Party, is a communist party in the Philippines that was established on November 7, 1930. It uses the aforementioned appellation in order to distinguish itself from its better known splinter group, the Communist Party of the Philippines. PKP-1930 formed with the intent to extend their fight to the government after Japanese troops withdrew from the Archipelago, the PKP was reestablished and renamed to The Communist Party of The Philippines in 1968. MLM started in the Philippines during 1966. with the work of former political professor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Maria_Sison Jose Maria Canlas Sison] (nickname: Joma Sison) who wrote on the errors of the Communist Party of the Philippines in the 1930s-50s, under the former Hukbalahap communist revolution, and how Maoism is the way to Communism for the Philippines. His revolution was later joined by the Kabataang Makabayan, a communist student movement opposing then-dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his nationalist policies. By 1969, he launched the beginning of peoples war in the country under his party's military wing, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People%27s_Army New People's Army (NPA).] (NPA was formed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernabe_Buscayno Bernabe Buscayno] or nicknamed Kumander Dante.)
Through taking huge swathes of rural Luzon and Mindanao, members of the Philippine military had surrendered equipment and weapons to the NPA, and many had defected as well, gaining popularity with rural peoples due to the massive urban projects done by the dictatorship threatening rural development, and the kangaroo courts established by the dictatorship at the time. Due to this, even after the bloodless [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution "People's Power Revolution"] (or EDSA Revolution), a million-strong rally that gave liberal politician Corazon Aquino presidency in the 80s, the New People's Army remained largely popular due to the liberal government's failure to rectify the mistakes on rural development and poverty in the Philippines.
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