Communist Party of the Philippines (original) (raw)
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Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas
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[ ![[Philippines Communist Party]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/ph%7Dcp2.gif)
](../images/p/ph}cp2.gif)collected by Zach Harden, 5 March 2001
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Background information
Ivan Sache, 31 May 2008
Flag of the CPP
The FOTW website shows three red flags with hammer-and-sickle, the third of them with three yellow stars also found in the symbolics of the NDF and NPA flag (and in the Philippines national flag). The third flag seems to be more "specific" of the CPP than the two "generic" Communist flags. I have not been able to find anything else on the flag of the CPP.
Ivan Sache, 31 May 2008
Flag of the NPA
[ ![[Flag of MIM]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/ph%7Dnpa1.gif)
](../images/p/ph}npa1.gif)submitted by Olivier Touzeau, 21 March 2025
The flag of the NPA is shown in the image gallery on the party website:http://www.philippinerevolution.net/gallery/lawakpiks.shtml, on the two following photographs:http://www.philippinerevolution.net/gallery/images/h.hbandila.min.2003.jpg,http://www.philippinerevolution.net/gallery/images/KaOris.presscon.min.2003.jpg.
The flag of NPA is red with the NPA emblem in the middle. The NPA emblem is a white triangle with a black border and a golden star in each corner; the triangle is charged with a spear and a machine gun. However, the emblem of the NPA is shown in other sections of the website as a red triangle:http://www.philippinerevolution.net/cgi-bin/npa/pwb.pl
I understand that the triangle was made white on the flag for a better contrast and visibility of the stars, spear and machine gun.
An article published in "The Christian Monitor", 7 September 2005, shows a photograph of a NPA flag with a red triangle and NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY in white letters, below the triangle. The font used seems to be specific of the CPP and its organizations (see below the NDF flag). The photograph was taken during a demonstration, while the aforementioned photographs were taken in NPA camps. I guess that the name of the organization was added "for the benefit" of the general public.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1207/p04s01-woap.html
Ivan Sache, 31 May 2008
[ ![[Flag of MIM]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/ph%7Dnpa.gif)
](../images/p/ph}npa.gif)submitted by Olivier Touzeau, 21 March 2025
Red-field flag of the "New People's Army" (The Philippines); this variant has the group's name in English and the three stars inside the group's black-triangle logo/shield are black instead of yellow. {The earlier "yellow stars" variant with its Filipino name [Bagong Hukbong Bayan] can be seen here.
William Garrison, 21 March 2025
Flag of the NDF
Variant flags
[ ![[Philippines Communist Party]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/ph%7Dcpp.gif)
](../images/p/ph}cpp.gif) collected by Dov Gutterman, 24 January 1999
From http://www.philippinerevolution.net/
[ ![[Philippines Communist Party]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/ph%7Dcp1.gif)
](../images/p/ph}cp1.gif)collected by Zach Harden, 5 March 2001
These flags were seen in an Associated Press photo of funeral, draped over a coffin.
Zach Harden, 5 March 2001