A contribution for the Operational Law Seminar sponsored by Friedrich Ebert Foundation Manila
June 5, 2013
Manila, Philippines
By:
IKE DE LOS REYES
Political Consultant for the GRP-RPM-M Peace Talks
An Overview
The majority of armed conflicts today, occurs within the states and involves one or more non-state armed groups (NSAGs).
In 2005 Human Security Reports only 2 inter-state conflicts had been quantified, 26 civil wars involving at least one non-state actor and 30 internal conflicts between non-state actors.  In the said reports, it stated that there are 176 armed groups in 64 countries worldwide but two …

Official Statement of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa – Mindanao (RPM-M) on the Peace Framework Signing between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) 15 October 2012

Revolutionary movements are and will always be grounded with the masses’ conditions. They grow and gain strength from the real support and followings of the masses. Without the situations of injustices, massive poverty and hunger, inequalities, monopolies and elitist social structure that victimize the masses no revolutionary movements with the political aim to achieve structural change in power relations will not have ground and reason to exist.

After two years, the PNoy government has shown its worth, the people should prepare themselves for the worst and strengthen their ranks…

Introduction: an historical note
by Pierre ROUSSET
The Revolutionary Workers’ Party (Mindanao) (Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Mangagawa-Mindanao or RPM-M) – was founded in 2001. But it is the product of a history which goes back a decade earlier, to the crisis of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP, Maoist) in 1992-1993. This crisis resulted in a whole series of splits, involving particularly commissions dealing with sectors of the party’s work and territorial, regional party structures. In the South of the archipelago, this was the case with the Central Mindanao Region or CMR.
Let …