Amid the series of natural and man-made disasters that swamped Davao Oriental since late last year, it is contemptuous that the local ruling class continues trying to deodorize the ill-effects of the on-going open pit and large-scale mining to the environment and the overall welfare of the masses in the province. Farmers and Lumad in […]

We join the Filipino people in marking today the 6th anniversary of the decision of the International Arbitral Tribunal which nullified China’s “9-dash line” claim and recognized the Philippine’s exclusive economic zone and extended continent shelf. For six years, the Philippine government threw the ruling to the garbage heap to kowtow to China’s wishes, and […]

Officers of the 95th IB and the 5th Infantry Division of the AFP are desperately weaving tall tales of Red fighters “dying of hunger” and of a “power struggle” within the New People’s Army in Isabela province. Last week, they resorted to gravedigging to exhume supposed “victims” to lend drama to their concocted stories, earn […]

Ferdinand Marcos praised assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe as a “devoted friend of the Philippines” while Rodrigo Duterte called him “a true friend close to a brother.” In doing so, they both insulted the collective memory of the Filipino people, whose sufferings under the Japanese colonial forces in the 1940s, Abe had worked […]

The Communist Party of the Philippines extends its solidarity with the working class and people of Sri Lanka as they wage resistance in the face an acute social and economic crisis marked by acute shortages of basic commodities, spiralling prices, plummeting wages resulting in widespread hunger and sufferings. Yesterday’s uprising of hundreds of thousands of […]