Philippine Revolution Web Central
Philippine Revolution Web Central
In the Central Luzon plains and mountains, the revolutionary youth movement is intensifying its efforts to overcome weaknesses, rectify errors, and further strengthen the region’s Kabataang Makabayan (KM) ranks. They are striving to reach the broadest youth as possible and forge them as revolutionaries, New People’s Army (NPA) fighters and commanders, and Communist Party of […]
Raha work (“pagraraha”) or preparing firewood for sale is very difficult and dangerous. Despite this, it is the only source of income for many Manobo natives the military evicted in Surigao del Sur since 2019. They cannot return to their ancestral lands that are occupied by the military and taken over by large mining companies […]
Church people and youth held a prayer-protest action on December 14 in solidarity with the displaced families of Marawi City who have yet to return to their city. They called for the immediate return of 5,000 families who will face eviction from their temporary shelters by the end of the year. The land where they […]
Human trafficking victim Mary Jane Veloso has returned to the Philippines after nearly 15 years of detention in Indonesia. She was welcomed by her children, parents, lawyer, and supporters from Migrante Philippines and the Save Mary Jane Task Force at the airport in the early morning hours of December 18. She was allowed to hug […]
Journalist Alfonso Tomas “Atom” Araullo has won a civil case against National Task Force-Elcac officials Lorraine Badoy-Partosa and Jeffrey Celiz for their Red-tagging. Badoy and Celiz were ordered to pay a total of ₱2.08 million in damages for the harm they caused Araullo. Lawyers from the Movement Against Disinformation represented him in court. Araullo filed […]
After 13 hearings, the Quad Committee of Congress recommended on December 18 the filing of criminal charges against former president Rodrigo Duterte and his cohorts for committing widespread extrajudicial killings under his administration’s bogus war on drugs. This case is similar to that filed by the families of drug war victims at the International Criminal […]
One illegal arrest after another were perpetrated this month of December. The US-Marcos regime’s brutal fascist repression spares no one, not even the elderly and the sick. In Iloilo City, state forces arrested 74-year-old sick Tomas Dominado and his caregiver on December 5, in Barangay Sooc, Arevalo. He was charged with murder and rebellion cases […]
Courts convicted six human rights defenders in Palawan for illegal possession of explosives and explosive devices and rebellion in recent weeks. According to the human rights group, the reclusion perpetua or life imprisonment sentence is unjust and a deliberate miscarriage of justice. The activists, part of the Palawan 7, were arrested on October 4, 2019, […]
The national budget approved by the bicameral committee of the Senate and Congress in the first week of December drew widespread condemnation. In the final version, the committee slashed funds for social services and transferred it to milking cow programs such as infrastructure projects and aid, which serve patronage politics. The committee inserted a total […]