The first SONA of Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos was “expected from an illegitimate, puppet and corrupt president” as it mentioned nothing about issues faced by the Filipino people that need immediate attention such as genuine agrarian reform, national industrialization, soaring prices, depressed wages, hunger and extreme poverty, according to Ka Juanito Magbanua, New People’s Army-Negros Island […]

For the Cordillera people, it is both ironic and enraging that the July 27 earthquake is so much more eventful than Bongbong Marcos’ first state of the nation address. If anything, that July 25 nationwide address could indeed be enraging but only for its blatant disregard of the rights of the national minorities. The rest […]

If a reader of the state of the nation address of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. wants to know its content and save time, he or she only needs to read the concluding sentence of the speech: “I know this in my mind, I know it in my heart, I know it in my very soul … […]

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the Myanmar junta for the execution last Monday of four activists, including known figures in the protest movement since the military coup early last year. According to reports, the junta carried out the execution of Kyaw Min Yu, 53, Phyo Zeya Thaw, a 41, Hla Myo Aung […]

1. Marcos’ SONA was a fairy tale completely disconnected from the reality of the toiling masses’ pressing socioeconomic problems: spiralling prices, low wages and massive unemployment and widespread landlessness and land grabbing. 2. Marcos is wrong to think that his technical jargon and grandiose promises will succeed in mesmerizing the people. The toiling masses need […]