THE NEXPERIA PHILIPPINES Inc. Workers’ Union (NPIWU)-NAFLU-KMU members numbering 1,246 out of a total of 1,883 voted in favor of launching a strike against the company’s mass layoffs. The union conducted the strike vote on July 29-30 in Cabuyao, Laguna. The activity went smoothly after blatant management interference on July 17-18 which delayed polling. The […]

VENEZUELA SUCCESSFULLY HELD presidential elections on July 28. Incumbent President Nicolas Maduro, one of Latin America’s staunchest anti-imperialist leaders, won. He received 51.2% of the votes, against his opponent Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who got 44.2%. The US and its Latin American allies attempted to disrupt the election by hacking the data transmission system which delayed […]

US imperialist intervention in Asia went on “hypermode” in July. From July 25, State Sec. Antony Blinken toured six countries in Asia in 10 days and held meetings in Vietnam, Laos, Japan, Philippines, Singapore and Mongolia. In a statemnet, the US said it aims to convey its commitment to the region in the last six […]

Military forces mercilessly killed three hors de combat and an old farmer in recent weeks. Eight were arrested and charged with fabricated criminal charges. In Negros Occidental, the 15th IB and police accosted 69-year-old farmer Ramon Enseniales in Sityo Pasto, Barangay Basak, Cauayan, took him to the forest, and wilfully killed him on July 29. […]

RESIDENTS OF BARANGAY San Rafael, Rodriguez, Rizal expressed alarm after the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) installed “free wifi” in their barangay last May, aware that it would be used by the National Task Force-Elcac to monitor them. The report said the NCIP itself revealed the purpose of the “free service.” In a May […]