Marcos is delusional when he and his fascist cohorts bragged their intention to declare the Philippines “insurgency-free” this year, peddling the fantasy that they will soon completely annihilate the New People’s Army and put an end to the Filipino people’s armed resistance. Marcos and his officials in the NTF-Elcac and National Security Council are fooling […]

NTF-ELCAC is in panic. NTF-ELCAC’s Eduardo M. Año gives a grim portent of intensifying government repression with his declaration that “With 89 active guerrilla fronts dismantled since 2018 and only one weakened front in the Bicol region remaining … One of our biggest challenges now is dismantling the network of recruitment, support, and finance that […]

The ruling system exposes its own rotten core with the ongoing reactionary elections. In the past months of campaigning for the Senate, Congress, and local government units, people have witnessed how elections in the Philippines are dominated by dynasties and parties that represent the interests of imperialist powers and of the few, rather than the […]

More than 7,000 workers, together with the youth and other democratic sectors, marched to Mendiola in Manila on May 1, Labor Day. They demanded raising wages to a living level across the country. Workers in the cities of Baguio, Angeles, Calamba, Naga, Cebu, Iloilo, Roxas, Bacolod, and Davao, and in the town of Rosario in […]

The largest number of Filipino workers are in Southern Tagalog. In total, 18% of the country’s entire labor force are in the region. The National Capital Region comes second, home to 10.4 million workers. In Calabarzon, 12.1 million out of the region’s 14.2 million labor force are concentrated. This does not yet include those whom […]