Workers under the Liwayway Workers Union (LWU-Anglo-KMU) staged a protest action at the DOLE Central Visayas office last September 19 and 22 against the company’s widespread retrenchments. They staged the protest while their case against contractualization was being heard inside the agency. For months now, the factory where they worked has been closed due after […]

The Katipunan ng mga Samahang Manggagawa-Cordillera Peoples’ Democratic Front (Kasama-CPDF) Wilfredo “Ka Hoben” Aloba Chapter reported in the last week of September that it successfully held the organization’s second assembly in a secret location in the Cordillera. Officers and members of the Kasama-CPDF from various communities and semiproletarian sectors attended the gathering. The chapter summed […]

Three cases of physical assault and abuse by soldiers against peasants and indigenous peoples were recorded in the provinces of Oriental Mindoro, Negros Occidental and Surigao del Sur in recent weeks. All victims are being accused of having links or being members of the New People’s Army. In Surigao del Sur, 75th IB troops arrested […]

  12th anniversary of San Roque’s People’s Barricade. Residents and supporters of Sitio San Roque staged a protest in front of the National Housing Authority on September 25 to commemorate the 12th year of the People’s Barricade that stopped the demolition of their community. Sitio San Roque is part of the land being grabbed by […]