Nagprotesta ang mga nars ng San Lazaro Hospital Maynila noong Hulyo 16 para manawagan ng mas maayos na kundisyon sa paggawa. Ayon sa mga nars, nasa 60 manggagawa na ang nahawa ng Covid-19. Kabilang sa kanila ang 48 o 60% ng mga pasyenteng ginagamot ngayon sa ospital. Nakikita nilang pangunahing dahilan ang kakulangan ng personal […]
The Philippines is far from eradicating the Covid-19 pandemic after four months under the Bayanihan to Heal as One or the Bayanihan Act. Infected cases are still on the rise. In July 6, the country registered 46,000 positive cases. This did not include the 8,000 positive cases awaiting validation from the Department of Health. […]
Travel restrictions which Duterte arbitrarily imposed in the name of fighting the pandemic is having a huge impact on the lives of farmers. Among those affected are farmers in Bicol who are yet to recover from the devastation wrought by the typhoon Tisoy last year. To help them get by, revolutionary peasant organizations in […]
THIRTY-ONE RALLYISTS protesting Duterte’s terror law were arrested in two separate incidents these past weeks. Police troops violently arrested 20 members of LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders) and their supporters who were protesting in Mendiola, Manila on July 26 to mark the Pride Month and criticize the Duterte regime’s tyranny. The protest was […]
Around 1,500 activists converged at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City last July 4, a day after Rodrigo Duterte signed the Republic Act 11479 called the anti-terror bill law. The Movement Against Tyranny and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan spearheaded the protest along with other national democratic organizations. The rallyists stood in solidarity […]
Fifty members of the people’s militia finished the basic political-military course in a guerrilla zone in Samar last April. They comprised the majority of the 82 trainees. The other 32 are regular Red fighters. The militia members who underwent the 7-day training are residents of five barrios. They had six instructors. The training was safely […]
Eight farmers were successively killed by armed state agents in a span of just eight days. All of the victims were maliciously tagged as members of or related to the New People’s Army (NPA). State agents killed Jose Jerry Catalogo, an official of the National Federation of Sugar Workers, at around 5:00 a.m. last […]
NINE SPECIAL COMMITTEES and rapporteurs of the United Nations (UN) wrote to Rodrigo Duterte on June 29 to express their expert opinion and opposition to the Anti-Terror Bill (now the Anti-Terror Law). They said that the law violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and, as well as the Universal Declaration of […]
POLITICAL DETAINEE Reina Mae Nasino and her newborn child were cruelly brought back to the Manila City Jail Female Dorm last July 2, two days after giving birth. The newborn is underweight and needs continued medical attention. Nasino was among the leaders of progressive organizations who were arrested in Tondo, Manila and slapped with […]
The 802nd IBde has used various ways to make it appear that it has ended the New People’s Army (NPA) in Leyte. It has launched successive focused military operations from March to April. Simultaneously, it has spread disinformation such as fake operations, encounters and surrenders. The 78th IB mounted operations in at least 11 […]