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No one expects Rodrigo Duterte to be another Winston Churchill, rallying the country in the face of a savage pandemic that, like the bombs falling on London during the Second World War, has dealt a terrible, swift death to unsuspecting friends and loved ones.
But the country certainly expects (...)
In trying to get state protection, Miguel and the KMU approach the CHR first, aware of the difficulty of securing court protection through the writ of amparo
Dandy Miguel, the 35-year-old vice chair of labor group Pamantik-Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), has been extra busy since last year helping (...)
The apparently extrajudicial slaughter of nine Leftist activists two weeks ago, coming soon after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered military and police forces to “kill” and “finish off” communist forces, brings to mind the remarkable and historic confession made by Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller (...)
Clothing donated for a relief operation was instead used to wipe Emmanuel Asuncion’s blood off the floor of the Worker’s Assistance Center in the Calabarzon region of the Philippines on 7 March. Not too far away in Batangas, the 9-year-old son of Chai Lemita Evangelista and Ariel Evangelista hid (...)
‘Earth indeed hath witnessed no fury greater than that of Big Pharma, when its patents are threatened in the interest of public health’
The Philippines, like so many other countries in this time of COVID-19, is caught in the worst of all possible worlds, or between a rock and a hard place. On (...)
The major trend in central-local relations in the Philippines under the regime of President Rodrigo Duterte has been the capacity of the presidential palace to exert a very tight grip over local politicians—arguably the tightest since the martial-law dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos (1972-1986). (...)
‘It has become a joke, for instance, to hear of Mikey Arroyo, son of former President Gloria Arroyo, elected as the representative of a party list for security guards and tricycle drivers’
There is now another attempt by Congress to amend the protective economic provisions of the 1987 (...)
‘Instead of chasing after foreign investments by offering our lands and resources, we should make the oligarchy pay for the centuries-old monopolization of wealth in the country’
In January, the representatives of the Lower House of Congress have opened deliberations on charter change (Cha-Cha) (...)
Toting long firearms and with the media in tow, without any coordination with either the proper authorities of the University of the Philippines (UP) or barangay officials, the military trucks rolled inside UP Diliman to the Materials Recovery Facility in Pook Amorsolo and the gardens in Pook (...)
The president’s generals are all extremely well-educated and there is little doubt of their intelligence, but they share a fatal flaw
Government troops massacred tribal people, including village officials, in the central Philippine province of Panay two days before New Year. In the capital, a (...)
This puts red-tagged groups in ‘great danger’ of having their assets frozen, says lawyer Kristina Conti of the Public Interest Law Center
The Philippine government, through the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), will start freezing “related accounts” of the Communist Party of the (...)
Sexual harassment, distance learning, red-tagging. These issues mobilized students in a pandemic year.
No lockdown could stem the wave of activism this year, as students and young Filipinos acted on their rage – whether to expose sexual harassment in schools, call out red-tagging government (...)
Metro Manila and Visayas residents report more dismal figures than their Balance Luzon and Mindanao counterparts
Six in 10 or 62% of Filipinos said their quality of life got worse this year, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.
In the face-to-face interviews, which were (...)
MANILA, Philippines — Members of Makabayan have moved to block calls for a House investigation on their alleged ties to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA).
The militant party-list lawmakers asked the House leadership to reject the call by (...)
Statement of Laban ng Masa, on the 48th Anniversary of the Declaration of Martial Law, Sept. 21, 2020.
DUTERTE, RESIGN NOW! The Philippines Needs a Government of National and Popular Unity
Laban ng Masa, a coalition of socialist organizations and individuals, joins the rest of the country in (...)
Duterte’s right wing populism stems from decades of liberal democracy that failed to address the economic needs of the Filipino people.
On July 3 2020, despite waves of popular resistance and incisive legal critique, President Rodrigo Duterte passed an Anti-Terrorism law that would give the (...)
’Even Duterte’s usually aggressive DDS true believers and paid trolls are confused and defensive in their comments, or are simply keeping quiet, waiting desperately for the wind shift that will never come’
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world (...)
It is strange that the idea of a RevGov (revolutionary government) has resurfaced on the day set aside for the remembrance of the August 21st murder of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino 37 years ago. This uncanny coincidence brings back unpleasant memories of a period when our country seemed destined to (...)
‘In current Philippine political dynamics, the CPP-NPA has become a scapegoat for the government, a means to keep the military relevant and away from politics, and a trap to stifle the formation of more viable movements for social change’
Sometimes, people become the very demons they wish to (...)
This article focuses on the shrinkage of the democratic and civil society space in the Philippines. Specifically, it provides an analysis of the national security situation as shaped by the long-standing counterinsurgency strategy in the country, and the resulting patterns of human rights (...)
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