To be called “red” in today’s Philippines is not always about ideology. Often, it simply means standing with workers, farmers ...

THE National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) has voiced strong opposition to the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) resolution penalizing "labeling" in election campaigns, ...

LACUB, Abra (PIA) — Seven infrastructure projects of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) are now benefitting the local communities of this remote town. The ...

DAVAO CITY (PIA)– The National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) has started to roll out the National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD) that serves ...

Marcos and Duterte ran as a tandem with a campaign slogan for unity. Duterte left Marcos’ Cabinet and resigned from the posts of Education Secretary and vice chairperson of the National Task Force to ...

No sooner had Vice President Sara Duterte quit her job as one of its co-vice chairs than the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) found the gall to petition Congress ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says government officials are not engaging in red-tagging activities, even though the NTF-ELCAC's claims have been thoroughly documented MANILA, Philippines ...

The Mindanao-based regional peacebuilding institution, Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) working for human security, democratization and people -to- people dialogue in the Philippines and ...

Go said that the NTF-ELCAC was established as a whole-of-government approach to address the country’s various root causes of the insurgency, such as poverty, inaccessible public services and ...

MANILA, Philippines — Former senator and justice secretary Leila de Lima said that the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) should have been disbanded since ...

And what results have emerged from the 'grab the bull by the horns' approach adopted by people in the NTF-ELCAC? How has prioritizing ... while others contain slogans denouncing neoliberalism.

He added that NTF-Elcac must be dismantled as it “is operating beyond its original mandate and is Red-tagging people from the community.” There wasn’t much response to his first proposal to revoke the ...