The New People's Army (NPA) (Filipino: Bagong Hukbong Bayan) is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It was formed on March 29, 1969. The Maoist NPA conducts its armed guerrilla struggle based on the strategical line of 'protracted people's war'.
The NPA forcefully extracts so called "revolutionary taxes" from business owners in areas where it operates. The Communist Party of the Philippines refers to the NPA as "the tax enforcement agency of the people’s revolutionary government".
The NPA is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department and as a terrorist group by the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. The Government of the Philippines, however, has delisted the NPA as a terrorist organization in 2011 and has recently resumed preliminary peace talks pending formal negotiations with the NPA's parent political organization, the CPP.
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