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Fight negligence and corruption of the US-Marcos regime amid El Niño
March 07, 2024

Much of the country is now experiencing a drought caused by the El Niño climate phenomenon. This began in the middle of last year, and is expected to last until May or June this year. The drought is expected to affect up to 65 provinces and bring extensive damage to the livelihoods of the rural […]

Bohol’s land is fertile for advancing the revolution
March 07, 2024

The US-Marcos regime is mistaken in thinking that it could end the armed revolutionary resistance of the Bol-anon masses when it brazenly massacred five captured New People’s Army (NPA) Red fighters and Party cadres in Barangay Campagao, Bilar, Bohol on February 23. The martyrdom of the five, who served the interests of the peasant masses […]

Back to EDSA to fight chacha
March 07, 2024

The 38th anniversary of the EDSA uprising was commemorated in various parts of the country and overseas through protests against the Marcos regime’s charter change scheme or chacha on February 25. About 5,000 people gathered in front of the EDSA Shrine in Metro Manila under the No to Chacha Network. The groups said one of […]

Gabriela greets Women’s Month with protests
March 07, 2024

Simultaneous protest actions were carried out by women under Gabriela on March 1 at the beginning of Women’s Month. Their call: Livelihood, Human Rights, Sovereignty, not chacha for foreigners and the few! That day, Gabriela Youth members, together with other youth groups, marched to Mendiola in Manila to express their opposition to the Marcos regime’s […]

In Short
March 07, 2024
Protests
March 07, 2024

Protests hound Marcos presence at ASEAN in Australia. Filipino migrants and progressive groups in Melbourne, Australia hounded the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit and the participation of Ferdinand Marcos Jr from March 4 to March 6. Led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan)-Australia, the protests disrupted the ASEAN Summit and Marcos’ activities. Justice for the Bilar 5 […]

The struggle of women workers in Bataan
March 07, 2024

Inside the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB), the first export processing zone in the Philippines, women workers dared to struggle at FCF Manufacturing Corporation, a company that exclusively makes products for global brands Coach and Kate Spade. They voted to go on strike after the company said it would only grant a wage increase of […]

Bohol Massacre, AFP-PNP bombing and abduction cases
March 07, 2024

The fascist war criminals in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), paramilitaries and the Philippine National Police (PNP), as well as its chief Ferdinand Marcos Jr, must be indicted and prosecuted for multiple violations of international humanitarian law and principles of civilized warfare during recent weeks. Justice for the Bilar 5. Five Red fighters […]

Conwep, defenders of foreign capitalist
March 07, 2024

In a congressional hearing last February 29, the Confederation of Wearable Exporters of the Philippines (Conwep) threatened widespread layoffs in the garment industry if even the slightest increase in workers wages is approved. In its letter to the Marcos regime, it warned that up to 120,000 or 70%-80% of its 160,000 workers will lose their […]

Perseverance amid suppression of the right to unionize in Cebu
March 07, 2024

Big and foreign capitalists deliberately attack workers’ rights to unionize and bargain in order to keep Filipino labor cheap and docile. This goes against what reactionary state officials keep parroting, what their own law say, and the international agreements which they have hypocritically signed. Forming a union and demanding that it be recognized as exclusive […]