The Kilusang Bayan Kontra Kurakot (KBKK, or People’s Anti-Corruption Movement) announced on January 19 that it will relaunch a massive anti-corruption protest on February 25, marking the 40th anniversary of the EDSA People Power uprising. The group led the 100,000-strong protest on September 21, 2025, and the 20,000-strong demonstration on November 30, 2025, both anti-corruption protests held at Luneta Park, Manila.

KBKK announced the participation of various sectors and organizations actively involved in the country’s anti-corruption movement. These include Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), youth groups and student councils that led major walkouts in late 2025, along with workers and urban poor communities, women, teachers, health workers, the elderly, and others.

They said that despite persistent pressure from groups and the public on the Marcos regime, only a few and none of the corruption-ridden “big fishes” have faced accountability. They added that the regime once again railroaded the passage of the 2026 national budget, which remains riddled with pork barrel and other insertions.

They are disappointed that instead of heeding the people’s voices against corruption, the Marcos regime is silencing them by filing criminal charges such as sedition. “It is sad that I have never stolen billions from the people’s money, yet I am the one charged with fabricated cases by the Marcos Jr government while no big names or politicians involved in corruption have been made to account,” campus journalist Jacob Baluyot said.

According to KBKK, the upcoming mass action will show that the broad people’s movement demanding accountability for widespread corruption remains alive and strong. It said 2026 will not be a year of silence but a period for sharper vigilance, broader mobilization, and continued mass actions against corruption.

According to Youth Rage Against Corruption (YRAC), Filipino youth this 2026 will exemplify the youth sector’s “spirit and militancy” it demonstrated during the US-Marcos I dictatorship’s Martial Law. “This month marks the First Quarter Storm—the wave of protests led by youth during the Marcos Sr dictatorship,” YRAC’s Tiffany Brillante said. She said the youth must continue today’s fight by holding all the corrupt to account.

KBKK and its allied groups anticipate more people will join the February 25 demonstration and that the different groups that previously launched separate protests will now march together in unity.