Anti-mining barricade in Benguet. Officials and tribe leaders in Bulalacao, Mankayan, Benguet set up a barricade against ongoing operations of Crescent Mining Development Corporation last June 18. The groups pointed out that the agreement between the company and the local government expired last year. Defending sovereignty. Progressive groups in Davao and Cebu launched rallies […]

Environmental defender Vertudez “Daisy” Macapanpan, 68, was illegally arrested in Barangay Burgos, Pakil, Laguna last June 11. About 40 elements of police units surrounded her house. Macapanpan had just given a talk in an assembly against the destructive Ahunan Pumped-Storage Hydropower Project which will be built in Mt. Inumpog, Sierra Madre. Four cases of arrest, […]

Stephen Corilla, a worker of Universal Robina Corporation (URC) in Tabok, Mandaue City, Cebu, was added to the long list of victims of violations of occupational safety and health standards in workplaces. Corilla died last June 2 when the company’s pulverizer machine malfunctioned while he was in it. According to workers and a report by […]

In the race of billionaires, ranking second is Enrique Razon Jr, one of Duterte’s biggest bourgeois-comprador cronies. In the past six years, he was favored with government and military contracts, and drew profits from the sweat of workers and other toiling classes. During the Covid-19 pandemic, his wealth almost doubled. From ₱182.7 billion in 2020, […]

Indigenous and other Ecuadorians launched a Paro National (national strike) on June 13 against neoliberal policies which has caused them much hardship. Led by the Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas (Conaie), a federation of indigenous peoples in Ecuador, thousands blockaded streets to prevent the movement of vehicles and people. They paralyzed more than 20 major roads. […]

For the first time ever, Colombians elected a left-wing and anti-neoliberal president. Gustavo Petro, together with his vice president Francia Marquez, won last June 19. He is likened to recently elected anti-imperialist presidents in Chile, Honduras and Peru. Petrov served as mayor of Ecuador’s national capital, Bogota. He is also known as a former member […]

Chemical and chemical product manufacturing are key elements in agricultural production and almost all manufacturing subsectors. It is considered a backbone of national industrialization. Production utilizes high technology and has a relatively high added value. In the Philippines, it is the third largest manufacturing subsector—after food and electronics. In 2021, its value-added reached ₱390 billion, […]

CONTRIBUTE TO ULOS! Editors of Ulos are now accepting literary and artwork contributions—poems, essays, narratives such as reportages, flash and short stories, comics and drawings. Ulos 2022’s theme is “the people and their army’s struggle against the US-Marcos regime, then and now.” Send your contributions to [email protected] until October 31, 2022.

Sa loob ng sampung araw, idaraos ang isa sa pinakakasuklam-suklam at pinakakahiya-hiyang pangkasaysayang palabas sa bansa: ang pagsumpa ni Ferdinand Marcos Jr bilang ika-17 presidente ng Gubyerno ng Republika ng Pilipinas. Matapos ang mahigit 36 na taon mula nang pinatalsik sa Malacañang, manunumbalik sa tuktok ng kapangyarihang pampulitika sa Pilipinas ang labis na kinamumuhiang pamilyang […]

Kumbinsido ang mga eksperto ng nagdaang eleksyon na nagkaroon ng election rigging o malawakang pandaraya sa eleksyon para paboran si Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Naisagawa ito sa pamamagitan ng pagprograma ng mga vote counting machine (VCM) para awtomatikong magdagdag at magbawas ng boto pabor kay Marcos. Kabilang sa mga eksperto sa teknolohiya at eleksyon sina dating […]