UPDATES Philippines is a fortnightly publication of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).

The senate slate endorsed by Marcos—the so-called Alyansa ng Bagong Pilipinas—is an alliance of big bureaucrat capitalists and political opportunists, representing the old and decrepit ruling system. Marcos’s chosen candidates personify the political dynasties and the worst aspects of the reactionary state. Marcos’s “alliance,” like his “uni-team,” is united only by their shared self-interest to […]

The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Negros and its allied organizations support the masses of jeepney drivers and operators in the continuing fight against the sham PUV Modernization program of the Marcos regime. The unity of the semi-proletariat and other affected sectors show the collective determination of the people against the imperialist neoliberal offensive in the country. […]

The US-Marcos Jr regime has intensified the neoliberal onslaught of liberalization, which allows the uncontrolled entry of artificial sweeteners and other sugars or sugar-based products from abroad. This does not include the huge volume of white sugar imported annually. Planter federations in Negros expressed their concern after discovering the decade-long unrestrained entry of artificial sweeteners […]

The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Negros unites with environmental defenders, the church sector and other concerned groups and citizens in opposing the recently announced expansion of Therma Visayas Inc. (TVI), the Aboitiz-owned coal-fired power plant operating in Toledo City, Cebu, near the protected Tañon Strait. Without consideration of its extremely dangerous effects to both ecology and […]