Harris, go home! Protests by more than 500 people greeted the arrival of US VP Kamala Harris in the Philippines on November 20. They marched to Mendiola on the day that Harris met Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Malacañang. KM, 58 years. More than 100 youth staged a lightning rally on November 27 along Recto […]

Six military actions in the last two weeks were launched by the New People’s Army (NPA) against fascist military troops. These actions were mounted amid AFP’s focus military operations. In Sipalay City, the NPA-Southwest Negros seized two calibre .45 pistols, ammunition, three magazines, two cellphones and one grenade from two intelligence agents of 47th IB […]

Workers, urban-poor and other sectors marched from Liwasang Bonifacio to the the Mendiola Bridge in Manila to commemorate Andres Bonifacio’s 159th day, which they also declared as the Day of the Toiling Masses. Among the marchers were the Kilusang May Uno and the All Workers Unity, Bayan and its organizations, and the Nagkaisa and Paggawa […]

Elements of the 94th IB and 47th IB killed Ericson Acosta and Joseph Jimenez on November 30 in Sitio Makilo, Barangay Camansi, Kanbankalan City, Negros Occidental. Acosta was a consultant of the National Democratic Front (NDF) in peace talks while Joseph Jimenez is a local organizer of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and an official […]

Rich in sea and land resources, Divilacan, a town in Isabela province, leans against the Sierra Madre and overlooks the Pacific Ocean. It has 12 barangays with around 6,000 residents. It has an area of 89,000 hectares. Much of the town can be considered ancestral land of Dumagat and Agta minorities. It was declared a […]

The chapter of Kabataang Makabayan in Katrina (not its real name), a village in Negros, was established in 2008. The chapter was formed at a time when the village was surrounded by CAFGU detachments and bad elements abound. Poverty is severe in Katrina due to backward agricultural production. Most farmers here are tenants of landlords, […]

Recent weeks saw Filipinos heaping jokes about “golden onions” because of its high prices and that of other commodities. But onion farmers in Nueva Ecija are not amused, saying they have not benefitted from the high prices of onions, and that they are, in fact, deep in debt. The situation of potato farmers in Benguet […]

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Nagbarog sa Katrina (dili tinuod nga pangalan), usa ka baryo sa Negros, ang balangay sa Kabataang Makabayan nga unang gitukod niadtong 2008. Natibuok kini nga balangay sa panahong gipalibutan ang barangay og mga detatsment sa CAFGU ug mikuyanap ang mga dautang elemento sa mga baryo. Grabe ang kalisud sa Katrina tungod sa atrasadong produksyon sa […]