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Wages in the Philippines remain pegged at low levels amid skimpy wage increases ordered by regional wage boards in the past five months. This is grossly insufficient for workers’ families to keep up with steep increases in prices of goods, especially food and fuel. In September, inflation eroded real wages by 28%. In NCR, the […]

  3-day transport strike. Jeepney drivers and operators, led by Piston, launched a three-day transport strike on November 20-22. This is their response to the Marcos regime’s continuing jeepney phaseout push in the guise of forced consolidation of their franchises. On the first day of the strike, Metro Manila routes were 85% paralyzed. Mobilizations were […]

The US is steadily expanding its military presence in Asia, amid a potentially broader Middle East armed conflict, and the already prolonged proxy war it waged in Ukraine against Russia. In the Philippines, the US is tightening its control of the Armed Forces of the Philippines through a series of wargames and permanent positioning of […]

Three Red fighters were killed while in military custody in the past two weeks. In Oriental Mindoro, Red fighters of the New People’s Army (NPA)-Mindoro, Jethro Isaac Ferrer (Ka Pascual) and Peter Rivera (Ka Rochie) were captured and summarily killed in Barangay Buong Lupa, Gloria on November 13. The military made false claims that they […]

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the entire revolutionary movement pay highest tribute and give their Red salute to Comrade Josephine Mendoza (Ka Sandy), Committee Central member and second deputy secretary of the regional Party in Southern Tagalog. Ka Sandy passed away on November 10 at the age of 59. In various places […]