Philippine Revolution Web Central
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Third part of the series on the Duterte regime’s borrowing binge. Read the first part, “Pandemic borrowing binge,” in Ang Bayan, August 21, 2020; second part, “Predicament to be caused by Duterte’s borrowing spree,” Ang Bayan, September 7, 2020. Much like Duterte today, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos colluded with imperialist financial institutions to fund […]
Progressive representatives scrutinized and questioned the Duterte regime’s proposed budget for 2021 this month. Representatives from the Makabayan Bloc highlighted the bloated allocations for the military, as well as for Rodrigo Duterte’s office and agencies under it. These include a nearly 3,000% budget increase for the National Task Force-ELCAC, ₱206-billion increase for the Department of […]
State agents mercilessly killed Rolando Patiño Leyson, Sr., 78, last September 12 in Barangay San Pedro, Sison, Surigao del Norte. Five armed men raided his house and shot him 20 times. Leyson was targeted just because his son is a known New People’s Army (NPA) commander in the province. Earlier on September 8, tricycle driver […]
The Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titles (SPLIT) program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) will only aggravate landlessness in the countryside, said the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) in a statement last September 7. The program will be funded using an ₱18.3-billion loan from the World Bank. It is set to cover […]
The New People’s Army (NPA)-Roselyn Jean Pelle Command ambushed intelligence agent Benedicto Omblero last September 4 in Negros Occidental. Two .45 caliber pistols and ammunition were seized from him. Omblero was an element of the Military Intelligence Battalion under the command of the 3rd ID, and a member of the anti-communist group ANAD. Meanwhile, the […]
The Filipino people were shocked and enraged with Rodrigo Duterte’s decision granting Joseph Scott Pemberton, a US soldier found guilty of murdering transgender Jennifer Laude in 2015, absolute pardon last September 6. Pemberton has only served half of his 10-year sentence. In a statement on September 7, the Communist Party of the Philippines said that […]
Various sectoral groups launched successive street and online protests in the past few weeks. Youth groups staged a picket in front of the Congress in Quezon City in conjuction with the budget hearing on education last September 16. This was followed by a mobilization by the urban poor who asserted their right to emergency aid […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines and other progressive groups and individuals paid tribute to Dr. Edberto Villegas, one of the country’s most fervent patriot, champion of anti-imperialism and revolutionary intellectual. He passed away at the age of 80 after suffering a stroke last September 7. He was among the founding members of the patriotic […]
Bagong antas ng internasyunal na kabantugan sa sama ang inabot ng rehimeng Duterte. Binatikos nitong nagdaang linggo ng European Parliament ang libu-libong ekstrahudisyal na pagpatay at iba pang seryosong paglabag sa karapatang-tao sa tinaguriang gera sa droga at laban sa mga nagtataguyod sa karapatang-tao, mga maka-kalikasan, unyonista at mamamahayag. Sa walang-habas at brutal na terorismo […]