Philippines: Why The NPA In Negros Island Will Never Be DefeatedOnce again, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has dusted off its worn-out script, loudly proclaiming to the public that the New People’s Army (NPA) in Negros has suffered an “irreversible collapse” and is “totally defeated.” Following the encounters in Toboso and Cauayan, the reactionary state is desperately trying to convince the public, and perhaps themselves, that the flame of the People’s War on the island has been extinguished, to appease their imperialist masters and its local toadies. However, these premature victory celebrations are nothing new. As Comrade Jose Maria Sison said, the reactionary state suffers from a chronic, incurable blindness: it mistakes a temporary twist in the road for the end of the journey. For over fifty years, the ruling class has repeatedly declared the revolution dead, only to find themselves continuously haunted by its presence. Their declarations of “victory” are mere illusions, completely contradicted by the material conditions in Negros. The fundamental error of the NTF-ELCAC’ analysis lies in their mechanical and bourgeois worldview. They foolishly believe that a revolutionary movement can be eradicated by targeting individual cadres or liquidating specific command structures.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33381/No Babies? Blame Capitalism.No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic about the implications of below-replacement fertility and its search for a culprit, the global commentariat has cast a wide net. In an April 2025 article in the conservative Catholic First Things Magazine, titled “Feminism Against Fertility,” Darel E. Paul blames the decline in Western fertility rates on young women who wish to remain childless because “they have more important priorities or simply like being single.” In a May 7, 2026, guest essay for the New York Times, the insightful Anna Louie Sussman blames the baby bust on widespread anxiety about an uncertain future. Soon after, a piece in the Financial Times cited a University of Cincinnati study to posit that the emergence of smartphones bears the largest responsibility for the recent decline in youth romantic connection
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