THE PEOPLE OF Bangladesh ousted the country’s prime minister Sheik Hasina Wazed yesterday, August 5, amid massive protests against her rule. She was ousted a day after the country’s bloodiest protests, in which police opened fire on thousands of protesters, instantly killing more than 90 and injuring hundreds. The protests began at universities against the […]

THE NEXPERIA PHILIPPINES Inc. Workers’ Union (NPIWU)-NAFLU-KMU members numbering 1,246 out of a total of 1,883 voted in favor of launching a strike against the company’s mass layoffs. The union conducted the strike vote on July 29-30 in Cabuyao, Laguna. The activity went smoothly after blatant management interference on July 17-18 which delayed polling. The […]

VENEZUELA SUCCESSFULLY HELD presidential elections on July 28. Incumbent President Nicolas Maduro, one of Latin America’s staunchest anti-imperialist leaders, won. He received 51.2% of the votes, against his opponent Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who got 44.2%. The US and its Latin American allies attempted to disrupt the election by hacking the data transmission system which delayed […]

US imperialist intervention in Asia went on “hypermode” in July. From July 25, State Sec. Antony Blinken toured six countries in Asia in 10 days and held meetings in Vietnam, Laos, Japan, Philippines, Singapore and Mongolia. In a statemnet, the US said it aims to convey its commitment to the region in the last six […]

Military forces mercilessly killed three hors de combat and an old farmer in recent weeks. Eight were arrested and charged with fabricated criminal charges. In Negros Occidental, the 15th IB and police accosted 69-year-old farmer Ramon Enseniales in Sityo Pasto, Barangay Basak, Cauayan, took him to the forest, and wilfully killed him on July 29. […]

RESIDENTS OF BARANGAY San Rafael, Rodriguez, Rizal expressed alarm after the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) installed “free wifi” in their barangay last May, aware that it would be used by the National Task Force-Elcac to monitor them. The report said the NCIP itself revealed the purpose of the “free service.” In a May […]

With the onset of rains, the people of Northern and Central Luzon are again gripped by mounting fears over the devastation and flooding that will come with the Marcos regime’s planned dam construction in the Cordillera. More than 100 hydropower dam business projects are to be built in the region, with at least 20 on […]

Bag-ohay lang nga gigun-ob sa pagbaha ug pagdahili yuta ang National Capital Region ug daghang bahin sa Luzon, hangtud sa Visayas ug Mindanao, tungod sa ulan nga dala sa bagyo ug habagat. Midagayday ang tubig nga naggikan sa mga upaw nga bukid nga nagresulta sa mga pagdahili sa yuta, pag-awas sa mga mabaw nga sapa […]

Layo kaayo sa kamatuoran ug sa adlaw-adlaw nga pag-antus sa katawhang Pilipino ang gipahayag ni Ferdinand Marcos Jr sa iyang ikatulong State of the Nation Address (SONA) niadtong Hulyo 22. Gigamit lamang niya ang SONA aron tabunan ang krisis sa ekonomiya ug balik-balikon ang iyang mga daw engrandeng “kadaugan” ug gipanghambog nga “Bagong Pilipinas.” Naghimo […]