Peasant protests met the 38th year of the bankrupt Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) on June 10. They described the program as the “longest-running, most expensive and bloodiest fake land reform” implemented by the reactionary state. For over four decades, the program did not dismantle the monopoly control of landlords and capitalists over vast haciendas, […]

Peasants in a guerrilla zone in Eastern Visayas, Marilyn’s family is busy planting upland rice with the arrival of another rainy season. In the past, only her family bore the heavy work of land preparation up to planting rice so they would have something to eat. But this year, an entire unit of the New […]

Progressive groups marched to Mendiola on June 8 to condemn the 25 years of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) for burdening millions of Filipinos. This law made the Philippines the third-highest in electricity prices in all of Asia. EPIRA was passed on June 8, 2001 amid then-high electricity prices and an unstable supply. […]

The Sandiganbayan Special Division junked Civil Case 0141 on June 2, the remaining case on the Marcos family’s stolen wealth, citing significant delays in the prosecution’s submission of evidence. The case was filed on December 17, 1991 and had been pending for more than 30 years. It involves ₱50 billion in Marcos ill-gotten wealth. The […]

Human rights violations against farmers, fisherfolk, and student youth by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the local government have been recorded in recent weeks. Demolition. Pamalakaya-Cavite (National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organizations in the Philippines) condemned the Bacoor City local government demolition team for its illegal demolition of fisherfolk’s homes in […]

The US group Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) successfully held its 10th Congress in May at a critical time when people’s struggles are advancing and the crisis of monopoly capitalism in the US is rapidly worsening. The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) conveyed its greetings to the FRSO congress. FRSO is a national organization […]

Mahigit 100 araw mula noong Pebrero 28 nang simulan ng imperyalismong US at Zionistang estado ng Israel ang paglusob at ilang linggong pambobomba sa bansang Iran, pinirmahan ng dalawang bansa noong Hunyo 17 ang memorandum of understanding o “unawaan” matapos ang masalimuot na negosasyon sa Islamabad, Pakistan. Laman ng unawaang ito ang “ceasefire” o tigil-putukan […]

Magkasunod na taktikaL na opensiba ang inilunsad ng mga yunit ng Bagong Hukbong Bayan (BHB) sa Negros Island noong Hunyo 12 at 14. Isang aktibong depensa naman ang inilunsad sa Northern Samar. Noong Hunyo 14, inambus ng BHB-Northern Negros (Roselyn Jean Pelle Command) ang tropa ng Regional Mobile Force Battalion-Negros Island Region na nagsasagawa ng […]

Noong Hunyo 12, itinatag ng kababaihan sa Central Negros ang lokal na balangay ng Makabayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan (Makibaka). Naisagawa ang pagtitipon sa isang erya sa larangang gerilya sa gitna ng matinding operasyong militar. Nagpakilala ang tagapagsalita ng Makibaka-Central Negros na si Ka Inday Gemodo, bilang pagparangal at pagpupugay sa Pulang mandirigma ng BHB-Central […]