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On that fateful dawn of 18 December 2021, the enemy, in an extraordinary large number from the Police and Military including the elite and mechanized units, launched an assassination attack against a lone Comrade Tripon in a remote village somewhere in Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte, in blatant (...)
Statement of the Revolutionary Peoples’ Army –National Operational Command on the murder of Comrade Tripon/Jojo.
The broad masses is in the middle of a difficult situation compounded by the impact of the pandemic and the recurring climate-related disasters that have deepened the present economic (...)
Statement of the Executive Committee of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Mangagawa – Mindanao (RPM-M) and the National Operational Command of the Revolutionary People’s Army (NOC-RPA) regarding the killing of Comrade Zandro/Tripon.
While the entire country, especially those affected by typhoon (...)
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 (...)
Leody de Guzman and Walden Bello unveil their electoral platform, ’Bagong Politika, Bagong Ekonomiya’
The tandem of Ka Leody de Guzman and Walden Bello on Saturday, October 23, unveiled their platform for the 2022 elections centered on growing the Philippine economy, reforming the political (...)
MANILA, Philippines — Labor leader and presidential aspirant Leody De Guzman and his running mate Walden Bello on Saturday said they will push for the decriminalization of abortion and the legalization of divorce and same-sex marriage should they win in the elections next year.
De Guzman and (...)
THE parade of presidential candidates with real chances of winning makes you sick in the stomach. As you sink into near-depression with the certainty that all of them — career politicians and vacuous political newbies/cum social media celebrities (the despot’s son is a candidate) — will just (...)
’Ka Leody has been a sterling worker-activist for almost four decades, a full-time labor advocate even if such a way of life offers no monetary rewards’
As an ardent follower of events and trends in the realm of global affairs, I personally appeal to the Commission on Elections (Comelc) to allow (...)
The presidential aspirant responds to criticism he was putting down women
Labor leader and presidential aspirant Ka Leody de Guzman on Monday, October 18, sought to explain his alleged misogynistic remarks against female leaders.
“‘Yung sinasabi ko... si Cory, napuna ko si Cory, napuna ko si (...)
The 2022 election is the fork in the road for radicals and the progressive movement. The situation that confronts them today is similar to what the mainstream Left, the then monolithic national democratic movement faced in 1986.
One fork is to discard the old, tried (several times) and tired (...)
MANILA, Philippines — Labor leader Leody de Guzman on Wednesday filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to formalize his run for president, the sixth day of the week-long COC filing.
De Guzman, a candidate for the Senate in the 2019 midterm elections, (...)
(2nd UPDATE) ’Robredo is a worthy candidate no doubt. But a unified opposition is equally important and to do this, all options should still be explored,’ says Bayan Muna’s Teddy Casiño
The progressive rank is not fully on board yet on 1Sambayan’s formal nomination of Vice President Leni Robredo as (...)
Believe it or not, the global fight against this pandemic, and especially the counter-measure of vaccination, is actual a rare common ground between the “Communist Terrorist Groups” and the “U.S.-Duterte fascist regime.”
Stated otherwise, between the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-New (...)
On the occasion of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Month this August and IHL Day this August 12, we call particular attention to an authoritative 2005 study on customary IHL by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) which found that State practice establishes Rule 138 (“The (...)
On the occasion of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Month this August and of the second month “anniversary” of the Masbate Incident of 6 June 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 (...)
The tragic killing of young scholar-athlete Kieth Absalon and his cousin Nolven Absalon who were riding on bicycles when hit by a landmine blast last June 6 in Purok 4, Barangay Anas, Masbate City, already since admitted by the perpetrator New People’s Army (NPA), is most condemnable. We (...)
Book Review: Ascending the Fourth Mountain: A Personal Account of the Marcos Years. By Maria Virginia Yap Morales. Bughaw: An Imprint of Ateneo de Manila University Press. 2021. xvii pp, 172 pp.
Ascending the Fourth Mountain is just the latest in slew of memoirs by radicals who want to tell (...)
It is perilous to be an activist in President Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines. The government’s attacks on dissenters and activists have escalated in the name of counterterrorism, replicating the aggressiveness of its bloody and longstanding “war on drugs”.
During the period from June 2016 (when (...)
Opinion: a short review of the foreign policy agenda presented in the “Laban ng Masa’s 25-Point Program for the 2022 Elections”.
The recently publicized “Laban ng Masa’s 25-Point Program for the 2022 Elections” clearly and sharply articulates an innovative foreign policy agenda for the Philippines (...)
Two decades ago today, the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Mindanao (RPM-M) was established in the jungles of Mindanao. Two decades of revolutionary works have been celebrated through the democratic victories with the toiling masses and working class. While it is true, we are far beyond (...)
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