Philippine Revolution Web Central
Philippine Revolution Web Central
In commemorating this year’s International Workers’ Day, the Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions (RCTU) affirmed its commitment to its revolutionary task of deepening its investigation into the condition of the working class in order to galvanize their resistance. Bringing together workers along their common interest for higher wages, lower prices, proper and safe working conditions, […]
Earth Day: Protest against reclamation. Fisherfolk, environmental groups, church people and residents of communities around Manila Bay gathered for a forum and protest in Caloocan City and Navotas City on April 20, as part of the commemoration of Earth Day last April 22. They demanded an immediate stop to the destructive Navotas Bay Reclamation […]
ON MAY 1, jeepney drivers and operators led by Piston and Manibela joined the workers’ march to call for the scrapping of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) and the policy of forced franchise consolidation. This is the culmination of their 3-day transport strike and encampment. They demand the return of their 5-year franchises […]
THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS and faculty at several major campuses in the US launched a new series of protests to push universities to withdraw their support and investment in Zionist Israel. Many universities work closely with the US military industry, and are thus complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. On orders of the Biden government, police […]
The US says the current Balikatan 39-24 is “a first in history” as many of the activities were “unprecedented.” The Armed Forces of the Philippines also announced its supposed “shift” to external defense in accordance with the Comprehensive Archipelagic Coastal Defense (CACD) strategy as a “direct response” to China’s “aggression” in Philippine waters. This allowed […]
THE MARCOS REGIME has charged at least 12 progressives for “terrorism” and “terrorism financing” in the past few weeks. Cases have been filed to suppress them and their organizations. In Quezon, Paul Tagle, spokesperson of Tanggol Quezon, and Fritz Labiano, coordinator of Kabataan Partylist in the province, were charged with “terrorism financing”. The case against […]
THE OPENING OF Balikatan 39-24 was met by protests of democratic organizations on April 22. Led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), they protested before the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City calling for a stop to the war games of US and Philippine military troops in […]
AMID RELENTLESS COMBAT operations of the 20th IB, more and more cases of human rights violations are being recorded in the towns of Northern Samar. Recent cases include bombings, shootings, food and livelihood blockades, and sexual abuse by soldiers. In Las Navas town, drunken soldiers indiscriminately opened fire in Barangay San Francisco on April 9. […]
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines paid the highest tribute on April 22 to Aprecia Avarez Rosete (Ka Lalay), revolutionary leader and CPP cadre who was martyred on April 27 in Barangay Malagad, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. At the time of her death, Ka Lalay was a member of the Party’s […]