The raging flames of rural unrest is being fueled further by the Duterte regime. Its successive anti-peasant and anti-people policies are set to displace thousands upon thousands of peasants, fisherfolk and minority people from their farms, fishing grounds and ancestral land that serve the interests of big bourgeois compradors and big foreign capitalists. Duterte remains […]

THE NEW PEOPLE’S Army (NPA)-Bukidnon seized three R4 assault rifles (attached to one of which is an M203 grenade launcher), two M14s, a .45 caliber pistol, eight ammunition and vests in a successful raid against a base of the 1st Special Forces Battalion (SFB)-Civilian Active Auxiliary in Sitio Green Valley, Barangay Dalwangan, Malaybalay City on […]

THE NEW PEOPLE’S Army (NPA)-North Eastern Mindanao Region (NEMR) successively released 16 prisoners of war (POWs) on February 14-19. In the first batch, the NPA-Agusan del Sur released six members of the CAFGU Active Auxiliary (CAA) on February 14 in Barangay San Juan, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur. In the second batch, the NPA released PFC […]

THE SUPREME COURT issued a ruling in favor of the third extension of martial law in Mindanao on February 19. This was issued by the court in response to the appeal filed by the Makabayan bloc, lawyers and the opposition against the said extension. The extension was approved during a joint-session of the Congress on […]

By signing the Rice Import Liberalization Law last February 14, Rodrigo Duterte brought a menace to all palay (unhusked rice) farmers in the country. The said law paves the way for the complete liberalization or the removal of restrictions on rice importation. The law is compliant with the liberalization policy impositions by the World Trade […]

#AyokongMagmahal was the slogan of the student-youth amid looming hikes in tuition and other school fees. On February 15, the Rise for Education-Cebu protested in front of the office of the Commission on Higher Education Region 7 to condemn proposals to increase tuition and other school fees in various colleges and universities. This came after […]

ON THE SEVENTH year of the One Billion Rising, hundreds of women led by Gabriela converged at the Rajah Sulayman Park, Roxas Boulevard, Manila last February 14 to dance in protest against intensifying fascism and tyranny in the country. The extensive plunder of resources and wealth in compliance with neoliberal policies pushed by the US […]

HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS of Anakpawis, Pamalakaya, Kadamay and Gabriela protested in Manila on February 18 against the 32,000-hectare Manila Bay reclamation project. According to Pamalakaya and Kadamay, the said rehabilitation project is being used as a pretext for the reclamation of the area and the construction of commercial structures for eco-tourism which will result in […]