Farmers and farmworkers of Hacienda Michaela in Barangay Talotog, Murcia, Negros Occidental stood militantly against the scheme of Ta-ala Farms, Inc. to grab their 22-hectare farmland. Since January 12, armed guards and company agents have encamped to drive residents away from the land they have long cultivated. Company personnel aboard three small trucks and three […]

Workers’ groups and environmental defenders condemned the negligence and unsafe working conditions at the Binaliw Landfill in Cebu City on January 8. An estimated 20-storey-high mountain of garbage collapsed and buried the buildings at its base. The landfill is operated by Prime Integrated Waste Solutions Inc. (PIWSI), owned by comprador bourgeois Enrique Razon Jr.. When […]

Guided by the rectification movement, the Negros Island Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines continues to deepen and expand its roots among the Negrosanon masses. In 2025, the committee reported relative progress in overcoming pinpointed weaknesses. Consequently, the Party successfully led the struggles of the working masses and democratic sectors in the […]

Military abuses against the Filipino people continue relentlessly at the start of 2026. Cases of shooting, attempted abductions, the filing of trumped-up criminal charges, harassment, and other human rights violations were recorded since the second week of January. In Samar, 46th IB soldiers fired an M203 grenade and shot two young siblings in Sitio San […]

Progressive groups and human rights defenders in the Philippines and overseas condemned the 2nd ID for baselessly detaining Filipino-American activist Chantal Anicoche at Camp Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal. They demanded her immediate release and for justice for the victims of bombings in Mindoro. The military claimed “finding” Anicoche in a pit near the site of its […]