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He was a war criminal, and he also transformed many into activists.
On the occasion of his death at 100, praises and denunciations of Henry Kissinger are being sung and spewed out in record numbers. Let me add to the “praises.” More than anyone else, Henry, along with his boss, Richard (...)
This is an initial hopeful critical paragraph-by-paragraph annotation of, including some questions on, the breakthrough four-paragraph Joint Statement signed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on November 23, (...)
A new book TIGAON 1969: Untold Stories of the CPP-NPA, KM and SDK by retired RTC Naga City Judge Soliman M. Santos, Jr. has come off press under the Bughaw imprint of the Ateneo de Manila University Press. It tells and substantiates several previously untold or unpublished stories on how the (...)
Sonny Melencio is a veteran Filipino socialist activist and chairperson of the Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses, PLM). He is also the author of the semi-biographical book, Full Quarter Storms: Memoirs and Writings on the Philippine Left. In this interview, Melencio (...)
Walden Bello is currently the International Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He served in the Philippine House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015 and ran for vice president in the Philippine elections of 2022. He was just named Amnesty (...)
Two years after the 6 June 2021 Masbate landmining incident — resulting in the New People’s Army (NPA) admitted killing of two Absalon civilian adult family members and injuring of another who was a minor, starting with what appears to be a command-detonated anti-personnel mine directed at (...)
The past week has seen a new set of Masbate incidents of the local communist armed conflict. This refer to the armed hostilities starting March 20 between the New People’s Army (NPA) and the Philippine Army (PA)/ Philippine National Police (PNP) involving the use of explosive weapons near (...)
The groups put the spotlight on continued oppression and economic woes as the nation commemorates its first People Power Revolution anniversary under another Marcos.
MANILA, Philippines – Various groups vowed to keep the spirit of the people’s revolution alive as the Philippines (...)
After studying the petition to quash the case filed by the defense, Judge Retrina Fuentes of Regional Trial Court 10 has ruled against it. This means that the arraignment of defendant Walden Bello will take place at RTC 10 in Davao on January 26.
Commenting on the judge’s decision, Lead (...)
The Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino (PMP) extends its condolences to the family and comrades of Joma Sison. We offer our sympathies out of solidarity to a fellow revolutionary despite the fundamental differences that the PMP has with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
This is the (...)
The search for a UP President is ongoing. Whatever the result, it will have profound political and social implications for the state of Philippine higher education and for Philippine society in general.
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On the UP Presidency: Statement of National Artists, National (...)
Katips, also known as Katips: The Movie, is a 2021 Filipino period musical drama film written and directed by Vincent M. Tañada. Based on Tañada’s 2016 stage musical of the same name, it is about a group of student activists from the Katipunan area of Quezon City who struggle to protest the (...)
A new book titled How do you solve a problem like the GRP-NDFP peace process? Part 2 has just come off the press in time for the inauguration of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and the official start of his new administration. The backdrop of this, and the subject of the (...)
It would be one year this June 6 since the Masbate Incident in 2021 that saw the tragic killings of 21-year old scholar-athlete Kieth Absalon and his 40-year old cousin union leader Nolven Absalon who were riding on bicycles when hit by a landmine or improvised explosive device (IED) blast (...)
Josua Mata on the Philippine workers’ movement before and after President Duterte
Although the official vote count only began today, the results of the 2022 Philippine presidential election are already more or less clear: Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., the son of long-time dictator (...)
’Progressive labor cannot stand aloof from this groundswell of people’s resistance against authoritarianism’
The May 9 polls is arguably the most important elections since the transition from the Marcos dictatorship to elite democracy in 1986. At stake in the elections is either the (...)
The May 9 national elections in the Philippines are taking place in a country reeling under the blows of the multiple crises of the system – pandemic, climate, economic, social. More than a fifth of the labor force (22.1%) or almost a tenth of the population (9.78%) are underemployed or (...)
Statement on the War in Ukraine
No to Putin’s war in Ukraine!
No to NATO military intervention!
Humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian refugees!
Solidarity with the anti-war protests in Russia!
Partido Manggagawa (Workers Party-Philippines) denounces the invasion of Ukraine by the (...)
Dear comrades and friends,
We are writing to you on an issue of urgent concern regarding Professor Walden Bello. Recently, a political party founded by Sara Duterte (daughter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte), incumbent Mayor of Davao City, and now vice-presidential candidate for (...)
F. Sionil Jose’s Solidaridad Bookshop shares that it was also graffiti-bombed the same way
Popular Bookstore, the iconic bookstore in Tomas Morato, Quezon City known for carrying progressive, political literature, was defaced with anti-communist graffiti on Tuesday, March 22, according to (...)
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