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The Duterte regime is putting forward various schemes purportedly to stimulate the agricultural sector. These include the Mega Farm and Food Security Program is touted to ensure food security during the pandemic. The program aims to consolidate parcels of land tilled by individual farmers into mega farms which will specialize in producing certain crops for […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has further exposed the backward state of Philippine agriculture. Global agricultural production disruptions caused by lockdowns, quarantines, border controls and transportation production are aggravating the crisis in the local agricultural sector which is heavily dependent on imported inputs and is export-oriented. The food crisis, caused by decades of liberalization, monopoly of land […]

Four barangay officials and a resident were killed by state forces in Bicol in just a week. A farmer in Neg­ros and two Lumads in Sultan Kudarat also experienced intense brutality in the hands of the military. All of the victims were tagged as memebers of the New People’s Army (NPA). In Mas­ba­te, three civilians […]

Residents of Barangay 654 in Intra­mu­ros, Ma­ni­la mounted a picket last Sep­tember 24 to oppose the impending demolition of their houses. In response, MGen. De­bold Si­nas deployed police forces in the area that evening to suppress the resistance of residents. In Ton­do, about 5,000 residents are bound to be evicted from their houses at the […]

This article is part of Ang Bayan’s series recognizing the daily heroism of the toiling masses in advancing the national democratic revolution. Ang Ba­yan enjoins all units of the Party, people’s army and revolutionary mass organizations to submit stories depicting the resilience, courage and militance of the toiling masses in the face of the reactionary […]