Philippine Revolution Web Central
Philippine Revolution Web Central
More than five decades have passed, still the country remains under the dark shroud of martial law imposed by Ferdinand Marcos Sr on September 21, 1972. The darkness grows thicker amid relentless fascism and corruption under the government of the dictator’s son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, while Filipinos undergo severe sufferings, with plummeting living standards and […]
Amid people’s gross suffering due to incessant price increase and plummeting economy, the US-Marcos regime’s proposed budget teems with trillions of pesos of funds to line the pockets of a few, especially high bureaucrats, cronies and their families. The regime’s claims that the ₱5.768 trillion 2024 national budget is “pro-poor” is a big lie. In […]
Hogging the headlines over the past weeks are the “confidential and intelligence funds” (CIF) for Ferdinand Marcos Jr, Sara Duterte and 22 other state agnecies for the next year. Marcos will get ₱4.85 billion in CIF next year while Sara Duterte will get ₱650 million. Recall that in 2022, Marcos Jr committed barefaced corruption when […]
The future of the Filipino youth is clearly not a priority of Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s reactionary government. Despite the 9.5% increase in the proposed 2024 national budget, the budget for state universities and colleges (SUC) was cut by 5.8%. From the already insufficient ₱107 billion for 2023, only around ₱100.9 billion is being allotted for […]
State agents abducted Bea Lopez, peasant organizer, and Peter Agravante who drove the tricycle she hailed in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental on September 15. According to reports, the two were travelling towards Barangay Gil Montana when they were blocked by armed men and forced to board a white van. The tricycle was also loaded onto […]
To manifest the people’s indignation over continuing fascist abuses by the 31st IB in the barangays of Donsol, Sorsogon, youths launched “oplan pinta” (painting slogans) along the roads at the center of Donsol. Among the brave words painted by the youth are “31st IB out! Murderers!”, “AFP terrorists”, “Oust Marcos Jr!”. This lends voice to […]
The National Task Force-Elcac was was cut down to size in its own press conference on September 19 when Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro bravely exposed their abduction, detention, threat and coercion by the military to “surrender.” Environmental activists Tamano and Castro were abducted in Orion, Bataan on September 2. According to witnesses, the two […]
Filipinos could barely cope with steep prices of rice which have reached ₱60-₱70 per kilo, in apparent tandem with price increase of oil and other commodities. Marcos ordered price controls over two types of rice in September, but large businesses simply hoarded their rice supply thus leaving common rice at high prices in the market. […]
A soldier was killed while two others and three police officers were wounded in armed actions mounted by the New People’s Army (NPA) in Masbate and Negros Occidental in the past weeks. A people’s militia unit fired upon a police counterinsurgency unit at Sitio Kampoon, Barangay Batuhan, Masbate City on the night of September 3. […]