Sugar prices rise in the market but the price of the sugarcane per ton remains the same. Such is the grievance of Tatay Torres, a worker in sugarfields in Tuy, Batangas. He is among the oppressed masses being squeezed dry by landlords and big bourgeois compradors who control and live on sugar industry profits. In […]

Soldiers of the 9th ID shot and killed 17-year old civilian Argie Salvador in Sitio Sapang Bato, Barangay Canapawan, Labo, Camarines Norte on February 11 at 1:40 p.m. Major General Adonis Bajao of the 9th ID claims that Salvador died in an encounter between its troops and the New People’s Army (NPA). Salvador is an […]

  Wage increase, not fare increase. Labor groups trooped to the MRT station in North Avenue, Quezon City on February 17 to protest the planned ₱2-₱14 fare increase per ride in the MRT and LRT. The protest was staged while the Department of Transporation held a public hearing. March against rice liberalization. Peasant groups staged […]

In conjunction with the February 8 celebration of Comrade Jose Maria Sison’s birth anniversary, progressives held a forum where they discussed the legal standing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) based on international and domestic laws and agreements. In the […]