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Established on 24 April 1973, the NDFP seeks to develop and coordinate all progressive classes, sectors and forces in the Filipino people's struggle to end the political rule of US imperialism and its local allies in the Philippines, and attain genuine national liberation and democracy.

The most important responsibilities of the NDFP include promoting national unity for the revolutionary struggle. It makes pronouncements on behalf of the revolutionary forces upon their authorization. It conducts proto-diplomatic and relations work abroad to gather moral, political and material support for the revolutionary movement.

Today, the NDFP is found in 70 provinces on the Philippines. The New People's Army operates in more than 120 guerrilla fronts throughout the country. In these fronts, the people's democratic power, the embryo of the future government, continues to be built and consolidated. Programs that benefit the people are carried out. These include literacy, health care, cooperatives and livelihood programs with the marked involvement of women and the youth.

Since 1992, the NDFP has been holding peace talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines to address the roots of the armed conflict. Eighteen major and minor agreements have been signed between the two parties, incuding the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.