Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
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 second (...)
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 Ferdinand (...)
’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 consolidation (...)
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 Russian (...)
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 the (...)
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 the (...)
Every advent of a new presidential administration in the Philippines, including for its election campaign prelude period, it has become fashionable to call for the resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the (...)
Revolutionary salute to all comrades in the Revolutionary Peoples’ Army! Highest Salute to Comrade Tripon who had offered his life to the revolutionary struggle. He was treacherously murdered by the Duterte fascist State forces last December 2021 without a fight to justify the use of people’s (...)
Renowned Filipino scholar-activist Walden Bello is running for vice president this year on a left-wing ticket. Writing for Jacobin, Bello describes the transformative impact an openly socialist campaign can have on the Philippines.
Six years ago, I made the only recorded resignation on a (...)
From Ferdinand Marcos to Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines has long been ruled by an ultrawealthy, corrupt elite. Presidential candidate Ka Leody de Guzman, a socialist and former labor leader, tells Jacobin he wants to end the rule of political dynasties.
On May 9 this year, elections will (...)
Labor leader vows to resume peace talks, fight social injustice if elected
Leody de Guzman will immediately abolish the government’s anti-insurgency task force and repeal the controversial anti-terror law if elected president.
In an online peace and justice forum, the presidential candidate (...)
For too long, the Philippine left has been sucked into giving support to different factions of the ruling elite. An unprecedented left-wing campaign in this year’s presidential election is a chance to break with that approach and put forward a radical agenda.
National elections are taking place (...)
Labor leader Leodegario “Ka Leody” De Guzman is one of 10 running for the presidency in the May elections. His socialist views are not the usual sound bites people hear from other candidates. But could he sway voters to embrace what he is offering, so they understand he truly means to represent (...)
Among all the economies of Southeast Asia, the Philippines has the highest poverty rate, at 25 per cent or more of the population. Inequality is also among the highest in the region, with less than five per cent of the people controlling 50 per cent or more of total wealth. Let us have no (...)
MANILA, Philippines — Presidential aspirant and labor leader Leody de Guzman will seek to address the demands of the communist armed group New People’s Army (NPA) to eliminate any motivation for their decades-long insurgency.
De Guzman was asked during the Panata sa Bayan presidential forum (...)
OMICRON. ODETTE. CHRISTMAS. NEW YEAR. ELECTION SEASON. Still no ceasefire on the local communist armed conflict front!
What does it have to take for a ceasefire to happen? What more humanitarian considerations are needed? As Bob Dylan put it, “Yes, and how many deaths will it take ’til [w]e (...)
Many commentators are convinced—and want us to be convinced—that the first socialist presidential and vice-presidential tandem to run in Philippine history have zilch chance of winning.
This belief about the socialist duo’s “un-winnability” is not without basis. It is true, after all, that Ka Leody (...)
Progressive candidates are testing electoral politics once again, at a time when experts see a breakdown of the political party system
Who’s afraid of the left? “I don’t think they should fear me because all the issues that we’re fighting for, like the regularization of workers, are normal demands (...)
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