Serye ng mga armadong aksyon ang inilunsad ng People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) na pinamumunuan ng Communist Party of India (Maoist) mula Mayo hanggang unang linggo ng Hunyo. Ito ay matapos pinaslang sina Ramko Narote, kasapi ng CPI-Maoist at Shilpa Dhurva, isang gerilya, noong Abril 27 sa Gundurwahi. Tinatayang umaabot sa 79 ang kaswalting sundalo […]
LAST MAY 25, the Juenes Révolutionnaires (Revolutionary Youth) in France conducted a study meeting on the Filipino revolution being led by the Communist Party of the Philippines. Local revolutionary and anti-fascist organizations attended. They discussed the liberation movement in the Philippines, particularly the people’s armed struggle. A discussion on the people’s war in India and […]
CALLS TO impeach US President Trump are intensifying. This followed the release last May 30 of the Office of the Legal Counsel’s (OLC) report on its investigation regarding Russia’s intervention in the 2016 presidential elections. The report detailed the widespread and systematic social media campaign for Trump by Russian company Internet Research Agency and its […]
THE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION Guerrilla Army (PLGA) led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) launched a series of armed actions from May until the first week of June. This came after the killings of Ramko Narote, a CPI-Maoist member and Shilpa Dhurva, a guerrilla, on April 27 in Gundurwahi. The police and military sustained an […]
POLICE FORCES violently dispersed the protest mounted by students in front of the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) on May 30. The group condemned the Supreme Court decision which favors CHEd Memo No. 20. Daryl Babaydo, national president of the College Editors’ Guild of the Philippines criticized CHEd Commissioner Prospero de Vera’s statement lauding the […]
Unjust and condemnable. This was Karapatan’s reaction to the conviction of unionist Marklen Maojo B. Maga by the San Mateo Rizal Regional Trial Court Branch 76 based on a trumped-up charge of illegal possession of firearms last June 3. Maoj’s family was extremely dismayed with the conviction. Maga, who is currently detained in the Metro […]
THE SUPREME COURT issued writs of amparo and habeas data in favor of Karapatan, Gabriela and Rural Missionaries of the Philippines last May 24. As per the writs, state agencies are obliged to cease from persecuting the groups until accusations against the latter are proved and justified. The petition was filed by the said groups […]
The people of Mindanao have been living in terror and poverty for two months now since Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in the island.. Nobody believes anymore that the imposition aims to foil the terrorism threat of the Maute group. This has long been exposed as one of schemes to establish an unrestrained and perpetual […]
Luhaang inanunsyo ni Theresa May noong Mayo 24 na bababa siya sa poder bilang punong ministro (PM) ng United Kingdom (UK) makaraang tatlong beses siyang mabigo na makabuo ng isang kasunduan kaugnay sa paglabas ng bansa sa European Union (EU) sa prosesong tinawag na “Brexit.” Noon pang Marso dapat umalis ang UK sa EU pero […]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is further consolidating its control over the implementation of the K-12 program. This May, the ADB and the Duterte regime signed the Secondary Education Support Program, a $300-million loan agreement which particularly aims to “refine” the K-12 curriculum based on capitalist demands. The ADB is using the loan agreement to […]