Workers welcomed the reopening of Congress with protests on November 4 to demand the passage of a nationwide wage increase. They assert that the regional wage boards’ meager increases do not suffice to keep up with inflation and the decline in their standard of living. The latest example is the paltry ₱40 wage increase for […]

The Marcos regime’s forces arrested six progressive and revolutionary organizers in Southern Tagalog in a new series of crackdowns on October 24 and 27. Among those arrested was a National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant. In Quezon City, a combined force of the 2nd Infantry Division (ID) and police arrested Wigberto Villarico […]

Amid tragedies bred by strong typhoons, winds, and rainfall, the Marcos regime infuriatingly continues to push for neoliberal policies that are environmentally destructive and detrimental to the people. On October 17, while many parts of the country were still flooded and another more devastating disaster was looming, the Chamber of Mining of the Philippines, together […]

The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Palawan joined the Molbog and Palaw’an national minorities’ defense of their ancestral land in Barangay Bugsuk, Balabac, Palawan, which is being seized by Ramon Ang’s San Miguel Corporation (SMC). The indigenous people are being evicted from their land to make way for SMC’s ecotourism business. Land grabbing for ecotourism The land […]