ABSTRACT
The administration of "justice" was one of many ways in which the rebels had altered the lives of peasants in Barangay Rose, a typical Philippine farming barrio. It was also a measure of the pervasiveness of the Communist Party of the Philippines’s control over the lives of the barrio's inhabitants and their acceptance of the sometimes harsh ways of the revolution. The militia investigated newcomers who moved to the barangay as well as strangers who were just passing through; in the eyes of the highly secretive communist underground, all were potential informers. Some of the people of Barangay Rose had great expectations that Corazon Aquino would end the government's neglect and solve the peasants' problems. Barangay Rose may have looked like thousands of other barrios, but the revolution had wrought remarkable changes for those living within its confines.
