Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) called for sustained local and national protests from October to November to ensure accountability for all those involved in the continuously unraveling corruption. The group issued the statement amid the uncertain, inconsistent, and compromised investigations of the House of Representatives, Senate, and the Malacañang-created commission concerning widespread corruption under the Marcos regime.

Senator Ping Lacson resigned as Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairperson on October 5 following alleged loss of confidence among senators in the committee’s direction of its investigation into corruption in flood control projects. According to Bayan, such events in the senate are “clear sign of how the pursuit of accountability is being undermined by unprincipled compromise, transactional politics, and political accommodation.”

The House of Representatives committee also terminated its own investigation on September 24 after deciding to transfer the corruption probe to the Malacañang created Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI).

Bayan says the Malacañang commission “lacks power, independence, and transparency” because its investigation is hidden from public and critics’ scrutiny. “It is becoming increasingly clear that its real purpose is to prevent scrutiny into the ghost projects and other fraudulent expenses of Marcos Jr, his close relatives, and cronies,” the group said.

Between 2022 and 2025, Marcos allocated ₱545 billion for 9,855 flood control projects. More than 6,000 of these were revealed to be defective, repetitive, or incomplete. This October, ACT Teachers Party-list Representative Antonio Tinio revealed in Congress that Marcos personally approved and funded at least 3,700 additional projects worth ₱214.4 billion from funds for unprogrammed allocations (UA) between 2023 and 2025.

Based on official state data, Marcos allocated ₱61.4 billion of UA in 2023 for 1,889 projects and ₱153 billion in 2024 for 1,811 projects. The largest share, or ₱141 billion, was for flood control projects, while the remainder covered road repairs and multi-purpose buildings. Most of the projects funded by Marcos’s UA were located in Central Luzon, Calabarzon, and Cebu—areas at the center of investigations over defective and ghost projects.

Earlier, a Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism special report revealed that Marcos received ₱21 million from two contractors as contributions to his 2022 candidacy, violating reactionary election rules.

These circumstances clearly reveal that corrupt bureaucrats are not interested in uncovering the truth but only in covering up their crimes. The group believes that only people’s sustained mass actions can ensure holding accountable all those involved in corruption.

Bayan also announced that it is working with various sectors and groups for a series of mass actions in the coming weeks. It called for more walkouts in universities, strikes, street protests, community noise barrages, and other forms of action to demand fundamental social change.

“We must not stop until we dismantle bureaucrat capitalism, foreign domination, and feudal oppression in Philippine society,” the group declared.

In recent weeks, Bayan chapters and its affiliated organizations have led numerous protests and demonstrations in Metro Manila and the provinces. The national democratic forces represented by Bayan now form the core of the broad anti-corruption movement.