Fascism and the free press
One unmistakable sign of fascism at work is the suppression and repression of the oppositional press. In his scholarly study of fascism in Italy, The Seizure of Power (1987), Adrian Lyttelton noted the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Noble names
I first heard their names as Guillier, Vic, and Emmanuel. September last year, these names dominated the news media in an instant. The news flash on a blurry television screen told a sad, horrible...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gabriela tells gov’t officials: prioritize victims’ welfare on all Dengvaxia...
Militant women’s group Gabriela Metro Manila today said that the welfare and the best interest of all the Filipino children vaccinated with Dengvaxia must be at the center of all the ongoing...
View ArticleYouth groups slam SC ruling in favor of Martial Law extension in Mindanao
In a statement released today, youth peace advocates from Kalinaw Metro Manila expressed their dismay over the February 6 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutionality of President Rodrigo...
View ArticleLumads troop to SC to protest Martial Law extension in Mindanao
Lumads, who came to Manila this week to again reach out to people in the national urban center with stories of their plight in Martial Law, were welcomed with the Supreme Court (SC) decision favoring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IN PHOTOS: NDFP launches draft social and economic reforms agreement
Despite the cancellation of the peace talks, the Reciprocal Working Committee on Social and Economic Reforms (RWCSER) of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) launched their draft of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Progressive groups protest China incursion in PH territory
Groups under Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) marched to the Chinese Consulate in Makati City today to hold a protest rally against the Chinese military build-up in islands in the West Philippine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Charter Change is anti-environment’ – Nilad
Green groups, Nilad and the organizations under the Wild for Wetlands Network including the Earth Island Institute-Philippines, Save Freedom Island Movement and the Save Laguna Lake Movement, today...
View ArticleWhy worry?
The year 2017 was marked by changes mostly confined to political violence. A likely new political order was initially embraced with hope turned anguish and disillusion. The pitilessness of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sa mga walang pantubos
Nabalitaan ng nanay sa puntod na ito na ililibing na sa mass grave ang kanyang ampon. Matagal na niyang alam na ang ampon niya ay nasa punerarya, kaso wala siyang perang pantubos sa katawan. Maaari...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Protest marks first year of Ferdinand Castillo’s arrest
A year after his arrest, families and colleagues of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) Metro Manila campaign officer and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant Ferdinand...
View ArticleRice monitoring group assails rice importation amid NFA’s “rice shortage”
Walang krisis sa bigas. [There is no rice crisis.] A rice monitoring group made this statement in a press conference Monday morning after the National Food Authority declared that their supply of NFA...
View ArticleYouth groups slam SC ruling in favor of Martial Law extension in Mindanao
In a statement released today, youth peace advocates from Kalinaw Metro Manila expressed their dismay over the February 6 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutionality of President Rodrigo...
View ArticleLumads troop to SC to protest Martial Law extension in Mindanao
Lumads, who came to Manila this week to again reach out to people in the national urban center with stories of their plight in Martial Law, were welcomed with the Supreme Court (SC) decision favoring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anti-Charter Change coalition launched
Various groups and individuals gathered today at the Malcolm Hall of the University of the Philippines College of Law today to formally launch the ‘No To Cha-Cha Coalition.’ The group opposed Charter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Filipinas rise against Duterte’s “shoot her in the vagina” order
Women’s group Gabriela led the Philippine celebration of the annual One Billion Rising (OBR) global movement against violence against women (VAW) at the Remedios Circle in Manila in time for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Love a revolutionary, love the revolution
The cold wind, sturdy pine trees and the scenic mountain ranges of the Cordilleras in Northern Luzon set the perfect mood for the wedding of two guerrilla fighters of the New People’s Army (NPA). The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lumad group: P20,000 bounty for killed NPA gives military a license to kill
Progressive Lumad groups headed by Kusog sa Katawhang Lumad sa Mindanao (Kalumaran) stormed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) headquarters early today to protest intensified militarization and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What the Lumads can teach us
When the self-proclaimed dictator Rodrigo Duterte offered the Lumads, the indigenous peoples in the southern Mindanao region of the Philippines, 20,000 pesos for every New People’s Army (NPA) rebel...
View ArticleClik here to view.