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October 21, 2023
抗议
October 21, 2023

  2023年10月21日 安赫莱斯市的反强拆街垒。安赫莱斯市阿努纳斯村巴卢巴德(Sitio Balubad, Barangay Anunas, Angeles City)附近的居民在2023年10月16日筑起街垒,对抗克拉克希尔斯地产公司(Clarkhills Properties Corporation)拆除他们家园的企图。该强拆将影响该公司强夺的72公顷土地上的超过500所房屋和2000名居民。 杜马格特市填海遭反对。2023年10月15日,超过200名教堂工作人员、环境活动家、青年以及杜马格特市海岸沿线的居民为“造物联合游行(Ecumenical Walk for Creation)”聚集在第5村黎刹大道的人民公园(Pantawan, Rizal Avenue, Barangay 5)。他们呼吁环境正义和环境保护,反对破坏性填海项目。 反对填海的人墙。在自然-人民环境网络(Kalikasan PNE)和菲律宾小渔民组织全国联盟(Pamalakaya)的领导下,超过600名群众沿着马尼拉湾前的罗哈斯大道组成了一条人墙,要求停止全国范围内的填海造陆项目。尽管小马科斯已下令暂停,但马尼拉湾的疏浚作业仍在继续。

Pulang saludo at pinakamataas na pagpupugay kay Kasamang Dionisio Micabalo
October 10, 2023

Sa ngalan ng buong Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas at lahat ng kadre at kasapi nito, at sa ngalan ng lahat ng Pulang kumander at Pulang mandirigma ng Bagong Hukbong Bayan, kinikilala namin ang kabayanihan ni Kasamang Dionisio Micabalo, na mas kilala ng masa at mga kasama bilang si Ka Toto, Ka Jeff o Ka Delong. […]

Genuine land reform and the national democratic revolution
October 07, 2023

Free distribution of land to tillers or genuine land reform is the most fundamental solution, not only to the current food and agricultural crisis, but also to the bankrupt economy of the semicolonial and semifeudal system in the Philippines. Now, more than ever, amid growing poverty of the whole people, especially of the peasant masses […]

Usury: extortion in the countryside
October 07, 2023

Almost all lower and middle peasants borrow money to defray their production costs. This is because they lack capital for increasingly expensive imported production inputs. The state provides no subsidies for agricultural production in the Philippines (unlike Vietnam). Most farmers suffer from falling livelihood, and are being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy. This predicament […]

#ML51: Fighting the rising fascism of the dictator's son
October 07, 2023

Thousands of Filipinos commemorated on September 21 the 51st anniversary of the declaration of martial law amid brazen fascism and corruption of Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s regime. Progressive groups led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) staged demonstrations in Manila, in nine other provinces and eight countries with the theme “Martial Law yesterday, Terror […]

NPA launches armed attacks in 5 provinces
October 07, 2023

Six armed actions were launched by Red fighters, according to reports by the New People’s Army (NPA) in recent weeks. These armed actions include enforcement of the revolutionary movement’s environmental policies. In Quezon, a soldier of the 80th IB was killed and two were wounded in an armed action by the NPA-Quezon on September 27 […]

Protest
October 07, 2023

  Youth oppose budget for fascism and corruption. On September 29, two days after the national budget for 2024 was railroaded in Congress, students staged indignation protests in seven universities in Metro Manila and Iloilo City. National-democratic organizations also protested in front of Congress on September 26 to denounce Sara Duterte’s squandering of public funds […]

Exploitation and job massacres in the garments industry
October 07, 2023

The reactionary state cannot hide the jobs crisis amid relentless retrenchments in the country. Last July, at least 4.6 million Filipinos were reported unemployed, underemployed or “discouraged” to find a job. This crisis is stark in the export processing zones (EPZ), especially in the clothes manufacturing subsector. In September alone, the Confederation of Wearable Exporters […]

Mass layoff and attacks against Nexperia union opposed
October 07, 2023

Workers at Nexperia Philippines launched a series of mass actions to oppose management’s layoff and attacks against the union, and to defend their right to work. Nexperia Philippines is a subsidiary of The Netherlands-based Nexperia company. It manufactures semiconductors at its factories in Europe, Asia and the US. In 2022, it recorded $2.36 billion in […]