Luis Jalandoni

Luis Jalandoni
Ka Louie in 2016.
Born	Luis Gamboa Jalandoni February 26, 1935 Negros, US-occupied Philippines
Died	June 7, 2025 Utrecht, Netherlands
Nationality	Filipino
Ideology	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism National Democracy
Political party	National Democratic Front of the Philippines Communist Party of the Philippines

Luis Gamboa Jalandoni, also known as Ka Louie (Comrade Louie) (February 26, 1935 – June 7, 2025) was a Filipino revolutionary and political activist who was the chairman of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). He also helped in the formation of the National Democratic organization Christians for National Liberation as a former Roman Catholic priest.

Life and revolutionary actions

Ka Louie was born to a wealthy suger-plantation owner family in Silay, Negros Occidental on February 26, 1935. Later ordained a Roman Catholic priest, he redistributed the farmlands inhereted from his family to landless workers. He also headed the Social Action Center of the Bacolod Diocese to participate in programs that helped and formed bonds with the peasants and workers.

As the Marcos regime, Luis Jalandoni became more militant and helped in the establishment of the organization Christians for National Liberation (CNL) in 1972, an organization for revolutionary Christians to aid the revolutionary communist movement in the Philippines. He later joined the Communist Party of the Philippines later into the year. He later helped in forming a New People's Army cell in his home province and, with the help of the NDFP and the progressive clergy of the CNL, he organized gun running operation to the people's army.

He was captured in September 1973 alongside his future wife Maria Consuelo “Coni” Kalaw Ledesma in Bacolod. Irish revolutionaries described his capture as one of the “most dramatic episodes of resistance.” as he was in possession of a revolver and some writings by Mao Zedong. He was kept in a dark windowless cell in Fort Bonifacio under torture and later was released in 1974. in 1975, he orchestrated the victorious La Tondeña worker’s strike.

He later fled into exile in the Netherlands in 1976 and later became one of the close aides to Jose Maria Sison. He later encouraged the Second Great Rectification movement in 1992, which esablished the party's official ideology as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

He became one of the chief negotiators as the Chairperson of the NDFP Negotiating Panel in peace negotiations with the Government of the Philippine Government (GRP). The negoiations would end with not conculsive results under the Rodrigo Duterte regime and were later designated Terrorists by the reactionary regime.

Luis Jalandoni died on June 7, 2025.

See also

• Jose Maria Sison
• National Democratic Front of the Philippines
• National Democracy