Bechay, a housewife in District 1 in Negros Occidental, spent ₱600 for her January electric bill, from ₱300 in months prior. Prices of onion, cabbage, dried fish and sugar also doubled compared to last year. The 320-gram package of Bearbrand also rose from ₱106 to ₱130. This is contrary to claims of the Department of […]

Onion harvest season has started in Bongabon, Nueva Ecija. Armyworms had also begun ravaging onion farms. Farmers are forced to spray pesticides every night to exterminate these destructive worms. They spend more than ₱100,000 per hectare to exterminate the armyworms. They have no choice, lest they allow the onions to melt in one night of […]

Sugar prices rise in the market but the price of the sugarcane per ton remains the same. Such is the grievance of Tatay Torres, a worker in sugarfields in Tuy, Batangas. He is among the oppressed masses being squeezed dry by landlords and big bourgeois compradors who control and live on sugar industry profits. In […]

Soldiers of the 9th ID shot and killed 17-year old civilian Argie Salvador in Sitio Sapang Bato, Barangay Canapawan, Labo, Camarines Norte on February 11 at 1:40 p.m. Major General Adonis Bajao of the 9th ID claims that Salvador died in an encounter between its troops and the New People’s Army (NPA). Salvador is an […]

  Wage increase, not fare increase. Labor groups trooped to the MRT station in North Avenue, Quezon City on February 17 to protest the planned ₱2-₱14 fare increase per ride in the MRT and LRT. The protest was staged while the Department of Transporation held a public hearing. March against rice liberalization. Peasant groups staged […]

In conjunction with the February 8 celebration of Comrade Jose Maria Sison’s birth anniversary, progressives held a forum where they discussed the legal standing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) based on international and domestic laws and agreements. In the […]

A lieutenant and two other soldiers were killed after the New People’s Army (NPA)-Albay blasted a command detonated explosive against operating troops of the 49th IB in Barangay Ramay, Oas on February 15. One of those killed was 2Lt. Nico Malcampo. Red fighter Eric Veraquit (Ka Nene) was martyred on the said action. Two soldiers […]

More than a hundred years since Lenin wrote the words “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement,” youth cadres and members of the Party continue to perseveringly study and apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. They firmly wield the revolutionary theory as a weapon especially during the most challenging times. In the history of the youth movement, […]

Consecutive cases of violations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) of international humanitarian law were reported the past weeks. Soldiers of the 94th IB summarily killed two hors de combat fighters and a civilian peasant on February 5 in Barangay Oringao, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental. Soldiers claim that the three were killed in […]