Protests were held in succession by various sectors in preparation for the 46th year commemoration of martial law declaration on September 21, 1972. In view of this, the Communist Party of the Philippines called on the people to use the lessons in struggle against the dictatorship to overthrow the loathed US-Duterte regime. On September […]
The International People’s Tribunal (IPT) held in Brussels, Belgium on September 19 found Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump guilty of their fascist crimes against the Filipino people. From September 18, the IPT heard 21 cases filed against the two presidents. Among these are cases of violation of socioeconomic, civil and political rights, and […]
Elements of the Task Group Panther under the command of Lt. Col. Samuel Yunque and the 5th Scout Ranger Battalion led by Capt. Michael Asistores ruthlessly killed seven Tausug youths, ages 18-31, in Kabbon Takas, Patikul, Sulu in the afternoon of September 14. The victims were identified as Makrub Diray, Basirun Hayrani, Mijan Hayrani, Binnajar […]
GROUPS KALIKASAN AND Cordillera People’s Alliance are demanding to hold big mining companies responsible for the landslides in Barangay Ucab, Itogon, Benguet during the height of typhoon Ompong last Septembre 15 and in Naga, Cebu on September 20. Latest tallies indicate that around 69 have died while 43 others are still missing after the mass […]
ON SEPTEMBER 17, Philippine Army Ret. Gen. Jovito Palparan, together with two co-accused former military officials, were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Malolos Regional Trial Court over the abduction and enforced disappearance of University of the Philippines students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño on July 2006. The ruling issued by Judge Alexander Tamayo states […]
Officials of the reactionary state have been using the high rice prices as a pretext to justify importation. However, palay farmers do not actually benefit from any increase in rice prices. Rice prices continue to rise simultaneously with its cost of production, while farm gate prices remain low. Kalinga is among the provinces with highest […]
Officials of the US-Duterte regime insist that the sole solution to rising food prices is extensive importation. For rice, in particular, state officials are pushing for the lifting of quantative restrictions (QR or the special treatment of rice which limits the maximum volume of rice the country can import) and the abolition of the National […]
The Filipino people are gravely suffering under the increasingly acute economic and political crisis of the ruling system under the US-Duterte regime. This is a result of the regime’s adamance to implement neoliberal economic policies while imposing its tyranny and fascism to railroad these policies and establish its dictatorship. The backward, non-industrial, agrarian, import-dependent and […]
SERYE NG MGA armadong aksyon ang inilunsad ng mga yunit ng Bagong Hukbong Bayan (BHB) sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng bansa. Agusan del Norte. Noong Setyembre 18, alas-3:40 ng hapon, pinasabugan ng command detonated explosive ng BHB ang nag-ooperasyong mga tropa ng 23rd IB sa Barangay Lower Olave, Buenavista. Tatlo ang napatay at apat ang […]
Apatnapu’t anim na taon na ang nakalilipas nang idineklara ng diktadurang US-Marcos ang Proclamation 1081 na nagpataw ng batas militar sa buong bansa. Sa taong 1979, kalahati ng buong panahong pag-iral ng batas militar, sadlak ang bansa sa matinding krisis sa ekonomya at pulitika. Matindi rin ang panggigipit sa mga demokratikong sektor. Sa gitna nito, […]