Filipinos joined protests marking the 77th International Human Rights Day on December 10. Thousands nationwide marched to uphold human rights and condemn the Marcos regime for its relentless violations of the people’s rights. Karapatan and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) led the actions in Manila and 15 cities and provinces. The International Coalition for Human Rights […]

Foreign companies and the big comprador bourgeoisie are ruthlessly seizing the natural resources and ancestral lands of indigenous people and peasants in the country. Using the police, the military, and the courts, they trample on the farmers’ right to land, suppress their resistance, and exploit the law to drive them out of their own land. […]

More than 20 members of Makabayang Samahang Pangkalusugan-National Capital Region (MSP-NCR, or Patriotic Health Alliance) chapter gathered in a secret location on December 6 to launch their regional assembly. Hospital health workers, nurses, doctors, medical technologists, dentists, and students of medicine and nursing attended the event. MSP-NCR held the assembly to mark its 47th anniversary […]

Family, friends, comrades, the party, and organizations worldwide commemorated the third anniversary of Comrade Jose Maria Sison’s death on December 16. They held activities in the Philippines and the Netherlands to remember Ka Joma. In the Netherlands, the documentary film My Friend the Terrorist was played on December 13. The Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation, […]

Various migrante chapters marked the international day of migrant workers on December 18. They also declared it as “Zero Remittance Day against corruption,” a day when migrants collectively withhold sending money to the Philippines. This served as a migrant workers’ protest to register their condemnation of rampant corruption and to demand accountability from all those […]

In Masbate, the 2nd IB captured, tortured, and willfully killed a New People’s Army (NPA)-Masbate Red fighter on December 13. The fighter sustained a leg injury and was captured after a battle in Barangay Pitogo, Cataingan that day. Soldiers subjected him to brutal physical torture in retaliation for the death of two soldiers of the […]

The devious manipulation of the pork barrel in the 2026 budget was exposed to the public during the bicameral conference committee (bicam) of the Senate and House of Representatives. Despite being livestreamed, lawmakers did not hide their bickering over various forms of pork barrel and how much would remain in the budget. The bicam finalized […]

Fisherfolk and peasants living near US military bases and war games sites do not consider the imperialist war a distant possibility. They already suffer from anxiety and the devastation it brings to their livelihood and communities. A 35-person delegation from the US documented this among many other cases when they toured communities near military bases […]

Operation Kagar, the Indian reactionary state’s fascist attack against the masses and the revolutionary Indian movement, has been unparalleled in the past nearly two years. In response, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), and India’s entire revolutionary movement persist in frustrating Kagar’s declared goal to end and crush the […]