The Friends the Filipino People in Struggle (FFPS) launched its campaign to end indiscriminate and terrorist aerial bombings against civilian communities in the Philippines. More than 200 cases of aerial bombings and artillery shelling by the Armed Forces of the Philippines have been recorded under the Duterte administration. The group launched the campaign to encourage […]

The people of South Cotabato strongly oppose the local government’s move to amend the Environment Code prohibiting open-pit mining in the province. In February, local officials held two rounds of consultations to supposedly listen to the opinion of residents. This is despite the fact that the basis for banning open-pit mining in the province remains. […]

To claim that the Jabidah and other pogroms did not take place under Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s martial law is lunacy and a gross lie. This was the reaction of Moros in the face of the repeated pronouncements of pro-Marcos reactionaries that massacres against the Moro people are made up and deceptive. They see the importance […]

The revolutionary people of India celebrated last February the victory of the widespread land leveling campaign which started in 2011. Land leveling is preparing the land in order for fields to retain water from irrigation dikes similar to rice paddies in the Philippines. Land preparations form part of efforts to improve the backward state of […]

BRGY. WHITE CULAMAN, KITAOTAO, BUKIDNON—They were coerced with the promise of freedom but were locked up instead. Nine farmers, eight Manobo and one Ilonggo, are currently being unlawfully detained in a local Paanakan center (lying-in clinic) of a peasant community here, after being coerced to “voluntarily surrender” to troops of the 72nd Infantry Battalion over […]