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New People's Army (Philippines)

LC control no.n 85200714
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingNew People's Army (Philippines)
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Variant(s)NPA
Communist Party of the Philippines (1967- ). New People's Army
See alsoFounder: Sison, Jose Maria, 1939-2022
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Founder: Buscayno, Bernabe
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Hierarchical superior: Communist Party of the Philippines (1967- )
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Other standard no.153673623
Q866709
Beginning date1969
Found inMolloy, I. The conflicts in Mindanao, 1983: p. ii (New People's Army (NPA)) p. 1 (New People's Army (NPA) of the Communist Party of the Philippines) p. 10 (military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist-Leninist)
The implosion of the Communist Party of the Philippines, c1995: p. ii (CPP was founded 1968 as a pro-China split from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, rapidly overtaking its moribund pro-Moscow parent in membership and influence; formed an armed wing, the New People's Army, on Mar. 29, 1969)
New York times, 21 Dec. 2022: in an obituary on page A18 (Jose Maria Sison, born Feb. 8, 1939 in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur [Philippines], died in exile in Utrecht, Netherlands on Friday [Dec. 16, 2022], aged 83; widely known as Joema; pillar of Philippine communism; founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its long-running guerrilla insurgency; Mr. Sison, a left-wing organizer and poet, founded the party on Dec. 26, 1968; three months later, joining a rebel leader named Bernabe Buscayno, he established the movement's armed wing, the New People's Army, or NPA)
Not found inISNI, 27 Dec. 2022