The National Democratic Front-Batangas denounces the Marcos Jr government’s plan to create a ‘special economic zone’ in Batangas as a vain attempt of attracting foreign investment but detrimental to workers rights. Under Proclamation No. 1127, four parcels of land in Barangays Pagaspas and Trapiche in Tanauan City, Batangas, would be transformed and integrated into the […]

Today, January 22, marks the 39th anniversary of the Mendiola Massacre, when a peaceful peasant rally was fired upon by soldiers under the Corazon Aquino administration. Eighteen farmers were killed and almost a hundred injured just because they demanded speedier implementation of land reform. Martial Law had been removed by then, but the Marcos legacy […]

The guilty sentence pronounced by the Tacloban City Regional Trial Court (RTC) against community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and layworker Marielle Domequil, based on trumped-up “terrorism financing” charges, has exposed to the entire country and the international community that there is no true freedom or democracy under the Marcos regime. For almost six years, Cumpio […]

The US-Marcos regime is targeting, intimidating, and threatening the people, especially the youth, in the face of growing disillusionment over brazen corruption and repression. Their grievances are being suppressed in the face of extremely slow measures of the reactionary government to hold accountable all those involved in corruption. Employing its armed minions and security agencies, […]

Various sectors launched successive protests and assemblies at the opening of 2026 to assert their economic and political rights. Actions were held for land and fishing rights, blockades against mining and demolition, and other struggles for livelihood in the first weeks of January. Peasants and indigenous people. Residents of Barangay Bitnong, Dupax del Norte, Nueva […]