Philippine Revolution Web Central
Philippine Revolution Web Central
El número de mujeres económicamente inseguras aumentó en 3,5 millones casi un año desde que el régimen de Duterte impuso el confinamiento. De los 16 millones de 2019, se pasó a 19,54 millones en 2020. Las mujeres agricultoras y los trabajadores sufrieron los bajísimos precios de los productos agrícolas y el cierre generalizado de pequeñas […]
Las empresas de telecomunicaciones (telcos) pudieron obtener miles de millones de ingresos durante el confinamiento, ya que la mayoría de los filipinos se vieron obligados a utilizar sus pobres, lentos e inestables servicios de Internet. El número de abonados a la banda ancha en el hogar registró el mayor aumento debido a los acuerdos de […]
Las maniobras imperialistas del Pres. Joseph Biden en Oriente Medio durante la última semana de febrero fueron recibidas con críticas generalizadas. Por un lado, ordenó al ejército estadounidense que bombardeara Siria bajo el pretexto de la “guerra contra el terrorismo”. Por otro lado, se negó a castigar al príncipe de Arabia Saudí que fue expuesto […]
La única empresa de fabricación de papel de periódico del país fue una de las empresas que quebraron y cerraron durante la pandemia. En una audiencia celebrada por la Comisión de Aranceles el 16 de febrero, la empresa Trust International Paper Corp. (TIPCO) anunció formalmente que ya había cerrado su planta de Mabalacat, Pampanga, en […]
The Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) modernization program relies on US matériel, training and aid. Majority of its big ticket items, such as airplanes, ships and helicopters, can only be acquired from US companies or its subsidiaries and partners in allied countries such as Israel, Brazil and Jordan. AFP officials insist that only US-made […]
Just like the E-CLIP, “laying down of arms” and other counterinsurgency programs, the ₱16.4-billion Barangay Development Program (BDP) fund of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) will certainly be used to line the pockets of military officials. It provides lots of opportunity for corruption in the form of kickbacks from […]
While the Anti-Terror Law is still being debated upon in the Supreme Court on how it violates democratic rights, the reactionary state is perpetrating unabated attacks against the people especially in remote areas that are far from the eyes of the media and magistrates. Two children have been recently victimized by the Duterte regime’s dirty […]
Various courts successively junked five cases with trumped-up charges against activists, an NDFP consultant and others in the past 10 days. These include the trumped up charge of illegal possession of explosives against Gabriela leader Beatrice Belen; illegal possession of firearms and explosives against National Democratic Front-Panay Concha Araneta; libel against the broadcasters of Radyo […]
The police raided the Bakwit School serving as temporary school of Lumad evacuees at the University of San Carlos in Talamban, Cebu City on February 15. The Lumads and their teachers sought refuge at the university since March 2020 as they could not go back to Mindanao due to the lockdown. The university administrators consider […]
The New People’s Army-Bukidnon mounted four successive offensives against the butcher 8th IB and 3rd Special Special Forces Battalion from February 10 to 13. Five soldiers were slain while 10 others were wounded. Four soldiers were instantly killed after being blasted by the NPA in Barangay Kibalabag, Malaybalay City on February 10. Two harassment operations […]