The 62nd IB soldiers captured and deliberately killed New People’s Army-Central Negros Red fighter Tony Pahayahay (Ka Pidol) on May 1 in Barangay Humay-humay, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental. Pahayahay sustained injuries during the encounter, and troops captured him one kilometer from the site of the clash. Meanwhile, soldiers captured another wounded Red fighter and have […]

Water that is tea-colored or coffee-colored, foul-smelling and undrinkable; water available only at midnight or early morning, some days with no water at all, only air comes out of the tap for several minutes but the meter keeps running; expensive and continually rising water service fees—these are the deplorable conditions and ordeal of residents who […]

The NTF-Elcac is utterly delusional in using the recent rotten and filthy election as a barometer of the people’s trust. “The election was riddled with reports of anomalies, fraud, and violence,” Marco Valbuena, chief information officer of the Communist Party of the Philippines, said. “The Comelec failed to explain the widespread issues with the Miru […]

We make the following key observations regarding the recently concluded reactionary elections: 1. The results of the mid-term elections are utterly discredited amid overwhelming evidence of widespread and systematic fraud perpetrated principally through automated cheating, as well as through vote-buying, election violence, disinformation, Red-tagging and other means. This stems largely from the failure of the […]

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