Articles in English

Hold responsible Marcos, foreign capitalist plunderers and cohorts
February 21, 2024

Relatives of more than 100 people who died in the February 6 landslides in Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro demand justice. They know that the deaths of their loved ones was not caused by a simple accident or tragedy of nature, but by conditions created by profit-hungry plunderers, and complicit bureaucrat-capitalists and the state’s armed […]

Death in mining
February 21, 2024

The February 6 landslide disaster in Maco, Davao de Oro (formerly Compostela Valley) is just the latest of a number of tragedies suffered in the province that is one of the Philippines’ mining centers, and not the first involving the company Apex Mining Corporation. The people of Davao region, and the Mindanao Lumad people as […]

Benguet indigenous peoples reject Apex-ISRI mining plans
February 21, 2024

Indigenous people in Sityo Dalicno, Barangay Ampucao, Itogon, Benguet are actively resisting Marcos government’s looming approval of the Application for Production Sharing Agreement 103 (APSA 103) by Itogon-Suyoc Resources, Inc (ISRI) which will cover their ancestral land. They say the many irregularities in the process of obtaining Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) by the […]

2 environmental activists, granted writ of amparo and habeas data
February 21, 2024

The Supreme Court granted the petition of Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, environmental activists abducted by military agents, for writs of amparo and habeas data. They won this petition after continuously demanding and exposing the brutality of the military and NTF-Elcac since their illegal abduction on September 2, 2023. The two were secretly detained for […]

NPA-Central Negros launches political-military training
February 21, 2024

Amid intensified military operations in the guerrilla front, Red commanders and fighters resolutely launched a Political-Military Basic Course on January 20-27. The activity aims to arm the fighters with basic political-military principles to bravely resist the Marcos regime’s counter-revolutionary campaign of repression. The training also forms part of the guerrilla front’s effort to overcome ideological, […]