Articles in English

The coconut industry is important to the country’s agricultural sector. At present, almost 26% of all farmlands are planted with coconut trees, and provide livelihood to around four million coconut farmers. The country’s coconut industry, however, is in a slump. According to reports, the income of 60% of coconut farmers and farm workers are below […]

The US-Duterte regime’s attacks are worsening against the people of Mindanao, especially peasants and national minorities, under martial law. In Northern Mindanao, in particular, cases of extrajudicial killings, illegal arrests and detention, intimidation, harassment, forced surrender and militarization of entire communities have risen. These aim to silence the people’s struggles for land, ancestral land and […]

CHILD RIGHTS advocates protested in front of the Senate during its hearing of the lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility last February 4. The proposal was earlier approved by the Congress. Prior to this, Gabriela Partylist and Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns launched a series of protests against amendments to the Juvenile Justice and […]

RAFAEL BAYLOSIS (Ka Raffy), NDFP consultant, was ordered released in January 15, almost a year after he was detained, after trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against him were dropped. He was freed, together with Roque Guillermo Jr., in January 18. According to Pre­si­ding Jud­ge Edit­ha Mi­na Agu­ba of the Re­gio­nal Tri­al […]

FOOD PRICES continue to rise despite the US-Duterte regime’s brag that inflation rate fell to 4.4% at the start of the year from last year’s average of 5.4%. The decline did not mean that prices of goods and services have fallen. It only meant that prices and fees rose slower. Statistics from the reactionary state […]