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 …

Initiatives and methods to transform violence to less violent and to peace are as varied as the diversities of circumstances and contexts they find themselves in. The creativities of the peacebuilders with the stakeholders have added beauty to these initiatives and peacebuilding activities.
The poverty reduction, conflict resolution and transformation which the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa – Mindanao (RPM-M) have been evolving with its current peace talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) are just part of these initiatives. The RPMM shares this experience as its small …

Last August, the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa ng Mindanao (RPM-M) successfully concluded its second congress. Over several days, activists discussed the prospects and perspectives of our movement and elected a new leadership for our organization. The congress was held in an area secured by the Revolutionary People’s Army (RPA). The ability to organize this event, crucial for debating and deciding upon a course for the RPM-M/RPA, was a testament to the support we have won and the organizational capacities we have build since we founded our party nine years ago. …

The RPMM’s leadership is calling on all its cadres and members to consolidate themselves in the light of the development and organized attacks initiated by the opportunists and liquidationists hiding behind the so called movement, who are shouting to save the Party while in fact they are in an all out mode of destroying the prestige of the Party and its leadership at every opportunity they have.
The Party leadership calls for the summing up of the Party’s experience in the electoral/parliamentary struggle so as to avoid similar mistakes and move …

The significant changes brought about the globalized tensions and conflicts have influenced the outlook and frameworks of various institutions, groups, and revolutionary parties to review and rethink their strategies and methodologies in conflict transformation and peace building works.
The RPMM strongly believes that effective methods to transform conflict and build infrastructure for peace is to understand the nature and causes of conflicts in their historical and current contexts. It has fully understood that the conflicts, violence and war in the Philippines had been caused by the globalized greed and exploitation of …