In the late 1970s, widespread peasant protests broke out over the US-Marcos I dictatorship’s fraudulent Coco Levy Fund. To pacify the peasant masses’ militant rising, Marcos ordered the suspension of the levy collection on September 17, 1980. It failed to placate the enraged coconut farmers. They could not accept how billions upon billions of peses […]

Hundreds of thousands of outraged Sri Lankans stormed and seized President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s palace in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo last July 9. The storming of the palace is a high point in the four-month protest actions in the face of intensified economic crisis, hunger and poverty in Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa was forced to vacate his […]

Even before war broke out in Ukraine, a global food crisis was already in the offing due to pandemic trade restrictions, adverse effects of climate change and rising oil prices and natural gas prices. This global crisis was pushed to the brink by sanctions one-sidedly imposed by the US on Russia. Sanctions are trade and investment […]

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the plans of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), particularly the 303rd Infantry Brigade, to carry out a massive aerial bombardment over the hinterland communities of Barangay Minapasuk, Calatrava, Negros Occidental. According to reports, the 79th IB, a unit under the 303rd IBde, has been securing […]