The Regional Party Committee in Negros reported that the revolutionary movement in the island comprehensively advanced ideologically, politically and organizationally in the face of the Duterte regime’s attacks and the Covid-19 pandemic. In the field of ideology, Party branches conducted formal discussions on the regional summing up of the Party’s 25-year experience. Three-level Party courses […]

Nine Tumandoks who actively opposed the construction of a dam in their ancestral land were massacred, and 17 others were arbitrarily arrested by elements of the Cri­mi­nal Inves­ti­ga­ti­on and De­tec­tion Gro­up (CIDG) and 12th IB on December 30, 2020 in villages along the boundary of Ta­paz, Ca­piz and Ca­li­nog, Iloi­lo. The massacre victims were identified […]

Peasants of Lupang Ramos in Das­ma­riñas City, Cavi­te together with their supporters mounted a people’s barricade and successfully foiled the Na­tio­nal Grid Cor­po­ra­ti­on of the Phi­lip­pi­nes’ (NGCP) plan to evict residents from their land. The two-day barricade started on December 21, 2020. The NGCP targets to construct electric posts in 372 hectares of land of […]

State forces gunned down farmer Lo­renzo Paña in Ba­ra­ngay Do­rol, Ba­li­li­han, Bo­hol on December 30, 2020. Paña was a member and former officer of the Hug­pong sa Mag-uu­ma Da­pit sa Ka­sap­dan-Ki­lu­sang Mag­bu­bu­kid ng Pi­li­pi­nas. He has long been subjected to harassment by the state for being an activist. In 2018, the police illegally ransacked his […]

Rodrigo Duterte has finally signed on December 28, 2020 the ₱4.5 trillion national budget for 2021 which its critics call a budget for corruption and fascism. Almost a fourth of the budget (₱1.1 trillion) was allocated to infrastructure projects, while less than 4% (₱200 billion) was allocated to pandemic response, raising the capacity of health […]