Reports of mass lay offs filled the news as companies face the threat of bankruptcy due to the crisis wrought by Duterte’s almost 3-month lockdown. Companies have successively expressed their intent to retrench their workers. Among these are the Bank of Phi­lip­pi­ne Islands which announced it will retire 1,286 employees who are 50 years and […]

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of professionals and workers in the service sector continue to suffer from the Duterte regime’s neglect under the lockdown. They lost incomes when schools, offices and cinemas were closed. Among them are 50,000 teachers in universities and colleges, and 500,000 education workers in private schools. In addition, 800,000 workers in the film […]

Opening new territories, or doing expansion work in an area, is a difficult but challenging task of the people’s army. In Negros, one such place is Niyog, a barrio in the island’s hinterlands. Almost all residents here are poor peasants. Some are farmworkers. They plant coconuts and produce copra. At the outset of expansion work, […]

Four full sessions of the Basic Party Course and an instructors training was recently conducted in the Bicol region. “The BPC further deepened my eagerness to join the NPA. This gave me a clearer understanding of what the people’s army actually does,” said Ka Troy, one of the students. Coordinated educational discussions were conducted to […]

Two civilians were killed and seven others were arrested by state forces in the past two weeks. Suspected state agents gunned down Sang­gu­ni­an Ka­ba­ta­an (SK) councilor Ha­rold Tab­lazan at Sit­io Pas­si, Ba­ra­ngay Mayang, Tu­bu­ngan, Iloi­lo last June 20. Tablazan was a former member of the Fe­de­ra­ti­on of Iloi­lo Far­mers Asso­cia­ti­on and is currently working in […]

Thousands of Americans marched in more than 100 cities across the US in June 19 to mark the 155th Ju­ne­te­enth, the day in 1865 when the Black people were formally emancipated from slavery in the United States. Majority marked the commemoration with protests to demand justice over police brutality and racist killings that target Black […]

  THOUSANDS OF CHILEANS trooped to San­tia­go, the national capital of Chile, on Ma­y 18 to express their anger and expose the hunger and poverty they are suffering due to the lockdown and the onslaught of the Covid-19 crisis. They condemned the surge in the prices of food and water in the country due to […]

LANDLORD AND COMPRADOR Edu­ar­do “Dan­ding” Cojuangco, Jr died last June 16. He was one of the closest cronies of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and is notorious for plundering the coco levy fund and land grabbing. He left a legacy of landlessness and oppression to farmers and farm workers. In Negros Occidental, he monopolized control over […]

Lalong lumalala ang dating di pagkakapantay-pantay sa lipunang Pilipino kasabay ng pagtalim ng mga kontradiksyon dahil sa mi­li­ta­ris­ta at an­ti-ma­ma­ma­yang pag­ha­rap ng re­hi­meng Du­ter­te sa pan­dem­yang Covid-19. Ha­bang ang ii­lan ay na­sa mga man­syon at pa­la­syong ma­la­yo sa sa­kit, pa­tu­loy na nag­ka­ka­mal ng ya­man, nag-aa­bu­so ng ka­pang­ya­ri­han at na­bu­bun­dat sa pa­wis at du­go ng anak­pa­wis, […]

Isa si Michelle Silvertino sa milyun-milyong Pilipinong nagpasyang maghanap ng trabaho sa ibang bansa para mabuhay ang kanyang pamilya. Nang hindi siya nakaalis, namasukan siya bilang kasambahay sa Metro Manila. Dahil ora-orada ang pagpataw ng lockdown sa Metro Manila, hindi siya nakauwi ng prubinsya. Nang magsimula nang luwagan ang pagbyahe, nag­pasya siyang umuwi sa Bicol […]