Nurses led by the Filipino Nurses United (FNU) commemorated the International Nurses Day on May 12 by wearing red face masks and raising calls to just wages and occupational safety. Since last year, nurses and other health workers have been demanding for humane treatment from the regime in order for them to carry out their […]

Rodrigo Duterte favored oligarch Enrique Razon Jr.’s proposal to build a mega vaccine center on public land this May. The project will cover 10 of the 15-hectare property managed by the Pilipino Nayon Foundation (PNF) in Paranaque. The said property is one of the last “urban jungles” in Metro Manila and has grown trees and […]

Three of the deadliest dam projects in the country at present are linked to the businesses of Enrique Razon, Jr., one of the “Dutertegarchs” or big oligarchs favored by Duterte. These are the Jalaur Megadam Project in Iloilo which aims to generate and supply electricity for More Power Company; the Wawa Dam Project in Montalban, […]

Thousands protested in the streets of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand and other countries to express their support for the Palestinian people and condemn Israel’s bombing of Gaza. Many of these groups carried the call: “Free Palestine!” In United Kingdom, activists occupied on May 19 a subsidiary arms factory of the Elbit […]

Israel’s brutal bombing of Gaza Strip, an enclave densely populated with 2 million Palestinians, has been on the news since the second week of May. The headlines screamed of an “Israel-Palestine conflict,” an “escalation of violence” in Gaza Strip and of the “growing question” of crimes against humanity being committed by “both sides.” These paint […]