As May 1 approaches, more sectors are mounting mass actions to call for wage increases and job security, alongside calls to lower commodity prices. Some of the mass actions are the following. Kadamay held the yearly Kalbaryo ng Maralita, a week-long protest of the urban poor in time for the Holy Week of the Christian […]

The 59th IB abducted on March 27 three civilians in Batangas and held them incommunicado for almost three weeks. Lloyd Descallar, Alfred Manalo and Angelito Balitostos were abducted in front of the Medical Center-Western Batangas in Balayan. Balitostos, 65, was incidentally passing by while the first two were being abducted. Manalo and Descallar are volunteers […]

Three sick Red fighters of the New People’s Army (NPA)-Northeastern Mindanao Region were abducted and summarily killed by soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). On March 26, husband-and-wife Dano and Rosalia Caindoy were abducted in a hospital in Misamis Oriental while waiting for treatment. They were claimed to have been killed in […]

The Communist Party of the Philippines joins the Filipino people in condemning the Marcos regime in its connivance with the imperialist US to build four additional US military bases in the country. On April 3, Ferdinand Marcos Jr announced its approval to grant “access” to US troops and military equipment in the Camilo Osias Naval […]

Peasants and Lumad people of Surigao del Sur see no benefit from the big agricultural machines and instruments “awarded” to them by the Department of Agriculture Caraga Region on March 30. For them, these are mere ornaments. They ask: in which farmlands will we use these when agricultural lands in the province are being grabbed […]