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Lumatlatak ti panagkasapulan ti armado a pannakilaban idiay Myanmar (dati a Burma) iti sango ti inaldaw a panagpatay ti hunta-militar kadagiti sibilyan nga agprotprotesta. Iti uneg ti pagilian, sumaksaknap ti panagbuya a saan nga umanay ti rali, barikada ken saan a panangsurot dagiti sibilyan kadagiti linteg (civil disobedience). Gaputa bayat a bumaybayag, lallalo a rumangranggas […]

The New People’s Army (NPA) was able to seize 17 firearms, including 10 high-powered rifles, in three successive military actions in Bicol in the past weeks. On March 19, the NPA-Camarines Norte attacked the outpost of the Philippine National Police (PNP) 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company at Purok 6, Barangay Dumagmang, Labo, Camarines Norte. Red fighters […]

Red fighters may come from various walks of life but they are linked by a common aspiration for revolutionary change. In the New People’s Army (NPA), oppressed classes and sectors unite to serve the masses, consolidate their strength and change the society. Ka Kiko, 19, now bears the onus of his elderly parents. Due to […]

Peasant women are considered an “invisible” part of labor force. Data by the Center for Women’s Resources in 2018 indicated that only 644,000 women were counted by the reactionary state in the agricultural sector. This extremely low figure is attributed to the fact that many peasant women do not own land and are categorized as […]

Women’s day. More than a thousand individuals marched to Mendiola, Manila to commemorate the International Working Women’s Day last March 8. Organizations led by Gabriela demanded the immediate distribution of aid, and the people’s right to livelihood, wages and employment. Similar protest actions were launched in Baguio City, Bulacan, Naga City, at Iloilo City. One […]

More than a million women were dropped from the labor force last year. This is equivalent to almost double of the total number of men (600,000) dropped from the said statistics during the same period. In sum, 19.7 million women or almost half of the total 37 million women aged 15 and above were not […]

Couple Antonio Cabanatan, 74, and Florenda Yap, 65 were abducted, detained and held incommunicado for months, and tortured before being killed through guillotine by state forces. Their lifeless bodies were found inside a house in Barangay Botong, Oton, Iloilo on December 26, 2020. They have already retired from revolutionary work several years ago due to […]

First of a two-part series on the Philippine oil industry. Superprofits accumluation by oil companies while the Filipino people undergo extreme hardships amid the grave economic crisis and pandemic invites outrage. Last March 17, the prices of petroleum products once again increased. This was the eighth hike since January 6, two and a half times […]

The so-called Cagayan River Rehabilitation Project, a program for the extraction of black sand (which contains magnetite) at a portion of the Cagayan River in the town of Gonzaga officially kicked off last month under the pretext of “preventing siltation.” Magnetite is a one of the primary minerals used in producing steel. The mining exploration […]