According to reports, around 6,000 protesters marched along the Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on July 26 in conjunction with Rodrigo Duterte’s fifth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA). Organizations from Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon participated in the protest. With the theme “Duterte, wakasan!” (End Duterte) and “Goodbye Duterte,” they demanded an […]

For the third time, the Duterte regime placed Metro Manila and Laguna under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), the strictest form of lockdown, from August 6 to 20 to purportedly stop the spread of the more infectious Delta variant of Covid-19. The lockdowns in Cagayan de Oro and Iloilo, which have been under ECQ since July, […]

Despite the resolution issued by the Anti-Terrorism Council declaring the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) as a “terrorist” organization, the religious sector expressed its willingness to mediate peace negotiations between the NDFP and the reactionary government of the Philippines. The Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP) announced its plans to conduct public consultations and […]

Athlete Hidilyn Diaz bagged the Philippines’ first Olympic gold medal on April 26 in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She won the women’s 55-kilogram category in weightlifting, defeating Chinese athlete Liao Qiuyun. This victory is a result of her work despite the lack of support from the reactionary regime for athletes’ training. This was first exposed […]

Presidential Communications Operations Office Sec. Martin Andanar’s boast that the revolutionary movement in North Central Mindanao Region (NCMR) is near collapse is a big lie. According to him, 2,517 members of the New People’s Army (NPA) have surrendered, 618 Red fighters have been “neutralized” and 10 guerilla fronts have been dismantled in 2020 alone. He […]

Four farmers were killed in Bicol, and four others were arrested by state forces a few days prior to Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address. Policemen gunned down Jemar Palero, member of the Organisasyon ng mga Magsasaka sa Albay, and Marlon Naperi of the Albay People’s Organization, in the evening of July 25, in […]

Barrio “Sulong” is among the barrios covered by the reactionary government’s bogus reforestation program called the Enhanced National Greening Program (E-NGP). The state is using this program, with the help of the military, to grab the lands of farmers and intensify its counterinsurgency campaign. The level of corruption of this program was evident during a […]

The NGP was first implemented in 2011 under the Aquino regime. This was extended and expanded in 2015 through Executive Order 193 (E-NGP) despite being declared a failure. It was continued by Duterte’s officials because its funds (more than ₱5 billion) serves as a milking cow for politicians. The DENR bragged in 2019 that two […]

Fight for the safe reopening of schools. Member organizations of the Back to Scho­ol Net­work-Pa­nay submitted a petition at the local office of CHEd and DepEd in Iloi­lo City on July 22 to demand the safe reopening of schools. They also demanded the regional agencies to provide a ₱10,000-aid to all students. Students of the […]