New People's Army
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8.4
- noun
- NSFW
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Ejército del Pueblo Nuevo
Examples
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Here the New People's Army started with 60 Red fighters armed with only nine automatic rifles and 26 inferior firearms.
Blog text (9) -
Some say he's the leader of the main Communist armed opposition, called the New People's Army, that's been operating in the outlying provinces for the past several years.
Fiction book (1991) -
In preparing the founding of the New People's Army on 29 March 1969, we drew inspiration from the victorious people's war in China and the war of national liberation in Vietnam against the U.S. war of aggression in order to formulate the Rules of the New People's Army.
Blog text (9) -
In preparing the founding of the New People's Army on 29 March 1969, we drew inspiration from the victorious people's war in China and the war of national liberation in Vietnam against the U.S. war of aggression in order to formulate the Rules of the New People's Army.
Blog text (9) -
The Party established the New People's Army on 29 March 1969 by combining the proletarian revolutionaries and the good elements of the old people's army who had broken away from the Taruc-Sumulong gangster clique.
Blog text (9) -
In 1969, the Communist Party of the Philippines established the New People's Army to challenge the government.
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The New People's Army has been involved in numerous skirmishes with government forces over the years.
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Local reports indicate that the New People's Army continues to recruit new members in rural communities.
Synonyms
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9.9
A rebel group in the Philippines linked to the Communist Party that fights the government and foreign troops
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'new' + 'people's' + 'army', so a B1 learner would likely infer it refers to an army associated with the people and that it is (or was) new; the lexical parts thus give a basic, literal sense. However, as a proper name for a specific Maoist guerrilla organization (the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines) the full, referential and ideological meaning cannot be predicted from the constituents alone, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
New People's Army brings together New, People's, and Army: a 'people's army' is an army of ordinary people, and New shows they wanted to replace the old order. So the name says they were fighters who saw themselves as a new army for the people, fighting 'to overthrow the government'.