With the approaching mid-term elections, candidates and parties under the Makabayan Coalition face intensifying attacks and repression of the Marcos regime and its armed forces. On January 15, Makabayan senatorial candidates appeared before the Office of the City Prosecutor of Manila to file a counter-affidavit against police charges of illegal assembly or violation of the […]

Instead of ₱20 per kilo rice, Filipinos were greeted by ₱20 per piece of tomato at the start of 2025. Before the end of January, people will also bear 10% increases in the prices of 60 basic products, up to ₱2.70/liter in petroleum products, and ₱15 per trip in the LRT. These additional burdens come […]

Units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) continue to unleash military violence in Negros Island. In the first weeks of January alone, the butchers already committed extra-judicial killings, illegal arrests and other human rights violations. Murder. Soldiers of the 15th IB deliberately killed Red fighter Rodney Lumanog (Ka Wanny) of the New People’s […]

  Disbar Duterte! Victims of extrajudicial killings and repression campaign filed a disbarment complaint against former president Rodrigo Duterte on January 17 in the Supreme Court. Among the 17 who filed a complaint were Atty. VJ Topacio, son of murdered revolutionary couple Eugenia Magpantay and Agaton Topacio; Liezel Asuncion, wife of slain leader-activist Manny Asuncion; […]