Hundreds of thousands of people in different countries flooded streets to support the Palestinian people’s struggle for genuine freedom and against Israel’s genocidal war. Protests spread across 40 countries and various cities within these countries. Rallyists repudiated the systematic disinformation which Israel, the US and genocide -supporting countries promote in the giant the imperialist mass […]
Peasant groups and their supporters launched a series of protests commemorating the Peasant Month. Hundreds of farmers from Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Tarlac, Bulacan, Pampanga, Albay, Sorsogon, Camarines Sur, Masbate and Negros Occidental marched to Mendiola in Manila on October 20, in what they called Day of Protest against Landgrabbing, Injustice and Hunger. On October […]
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) successfully held the first International Theoretical Conference in a European country on October 14-15. It was attended by 139 participants from various proletarian-socialist, anti-imperialist and democratic parties representing people of the world from Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, India, Italy, Turkey, Kurdistan, the Netherlands, North […]
Anti-demolition barricade in Angeles City. Residents of Sitio Balubad, Barangay Anunas, Angeles City, set up a barricade on October 16 to fight the Clarkhills Properties Corporation’s plan to demolish their homes. The demolition will hit more than 500 homes and 2,000 residents of the 72-hectare land that the company seized. Dumaguete City reclamation opposed. […]
Comrade Yuds joined the New People’s Army just a year ago, but handling a gun was not new to him. Together with his clan, he already knew how to fight with arms to defend against landgrabbers. The conflict over the more than 100 hectares of land owned by Ka Yuds’ clan has been decades long. […]
The Bluebird Merchant Ventures LTD (BMV), a British Virgin Islands-based company, is rushing processes and permits to begin the Batangas Gold Project in Lobo, Batangas. With its partner company Alpha-diggers Inc, it plans to extract 440,000 ounces or 12.43 tons of gold from 1,164 hectares covered by the mines. In June, the company was granted […]
National-democratic groups, led by organizations of workers and toiling people, launched a three-day fete for Jude Thaddeus Fernandez or Ka Jude, veteran organizer of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), at the University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman from October 10 to October 12. State forces killed Fernandez on September 29 at his home in Rizal. They […]
The criminal 59th IB suffered at least five casualties in an ambush by Red fighters of the New People’s Army (NPA)-Batangas in Barangay Bignay, Lobo, Batangas on October 16 in the morning. According to the NPA-Batangas report, they used explosives against a squad of fascist troops before exchanging gunfire. After the operation, the NPA unit […]
Operatives of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of the Indian reactionary government raided various democratic and pro-people organizations at Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on October 2. The Forum Against Corporatization And Militarization (FACAM) reports at least 12 organizations were attacked by state forces. The raids are related to the alleged case of the organizations’ “Maoist […]