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40 Years of Revolutionary Struggles: By: Lualhati M. Abreu
40 Years of Revolutionary Struggles: By: Lualhati M. Abreu
Revolutionary
Struggles
By: Lualhati M. Abreu
The two mainstream and
contemporary revolutionary
movements in Mindanao-the
MNLF and the leftist armed
movement led by CCP
Moro National Liberation Front
-The Moro National
Liberation Front is a political
organization in the Philippines
that was founded in 1968. It
started as a splinter group of
the Muslim Independence
Movement.
Origin: The MNLF was a splinter
group of the Muslim Independence
Movement, later called the
Mindanao Independence
Movement, which was founded in
1968 to work for a separate Moro
state in the southern
Philippines.
Founder: Nur Misauri
• Fidel V. Ramos
- Final Peace Agreement (1996)
The MILF-led Moro
Resistance
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
• Ideology: Marxist-Leninism-Maoism
• The CPP-NPA seeks to overthrow the Philippine
government in favor of a new people’s
democratic state led by the working class, and
the group also seeks to expel U.S. influence
from the Philippines. Its other goals include
redistributing land to the landless poor and
initiating a cultural revolution.
Tactical
Alliances
1.MNLF, MILF
2. MILF-NDFP
Table: Partial List of Massacres Perpetrated by Military-Ilaga against the Moro
People
10. Manili, Carmen, Cotabato June 19, 1971 More than 100
Town/Province Date Killed