Articles in English
Toiling masses carry the burden caused by El Niño and climate change
El Niño has ended and the rainy season has started, but the toiling masses, especially farmers and fisherfolk, still bear the burden of the destruction of their livelihoods by the drought intensified by climate change. The Marcos regime’s response to the nearly one-year drought is grossly insufficient and hypocritical. In the most recent conservative data […]
Hacienda Roxas: Proof of CARP's rottenness
Ferdinand Marcos Jr insists farmers are benefiting from the bogus Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) under his regime. In recent months, he has been going around the country to conduct ceremonies of distributing Certificates of Land Ownership Awards (CLOA). These are hollow spectacles because the truth is the country’s farmlands remain in the hands of […]
Peasants protest on CARP's 36th year
ON JUNE 10, progressive organizations of farmers, fisherfolk and land rights advocates led by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas protested before the DAR in Quezon City in conjunction with the 36th year of CARP. They condemned the rottenness of the longest, most expensive, and most repressive “land reform.” Farmers from Bulacan who were victims of the […]
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Military kills 16-year-old student in Sultan Kudarat
The 7th IB shot and killed 16-year-old student Eusibio Cranzo, also known as Kuni Cuba, on June 9 in Sityo Kiluding, Barangay Kiadsam, Sen. Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat. He was returning home with his brother and two friends when the murder happened. Reports said Cranzo’s group chanced upon an operating unit of the 7th IB, […]