Terrorism Watch

  On January 13 and 22, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society member Daniel Rudin interviewed Joel Rocamora, formerly a candidate member of the Communist Party of the Philippines. Rocamora was expelled after raising criticisms that were subsequently published in  Breaking Through: The Struggle Within the Communist Party of the Philippines (1994). 1  More recently, he has written  Impossible Is Not So Easy: A Life in Politics  (2019) and  Retrieving the Past: A Memoir  (2024) . 2   An edited transcript follows. Daniel Rudin:  How and when did you join the Left and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP)? 3 Joel Rocamora:  I had left the Philippines to learn the Indonesian language, before going to Cornell. Upon my return I began teaching at the University of the Philippines. I wanted to join a Leftist group, but people thought it a bad idea to let someone join with an American wife who was probably a CIA agent. I’m told that Joma Sison s...

  On August 14, 2025, as many as six Communist Party of India-Maoist ( CPI-Maoist ) cadres, including three each from Bijapur and Sukma Districts of Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar region surrendered before Superintendent of Police (SP) B. Rohith Raju in Kothagudem town in the Bhadradri Kothagudem District of Telangana. The surrendered Maoists include Madakam Lakme, ‘Platoon Party Committee Member (PPCM)’; Sodi Bheme and Sodi Raje, party members, 4th Platoon, Konta Area Committee; Madivi Sona, ‘Militia Deputy Commander’; and Madivi Bheem and Madakam Bheemaiah, ‘Militia’ Members of Palagudem Revolutionary People’s Committee (RPC). Police claimed that the Maoists have parted ways with the banned organisation and returned to the mainstream to lead a peaceful life by availing of the financial support under the Telangana Government’s rehabilitation policy.  On July 12, 2025, six CPI-Maoist cadres and ‘militia’ (people’s army of the Maoists) members from Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar regi...