Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade
Operations of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB) were intertwined with the activities of several communist-oriented insurgency groups in the Philippines. The ABB was created as a faction of the New People's Army (NPA), a terrorist organization formed in 1969 as the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. NPA committed itself to a worker-peasant alliance operating through a Maoist-based, jungle-focused guerrilla movement to bring about a revolution. In...