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As a progressive activist, I’m dismayed at the election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. by a landslide. But as a sociologist, I can understand why.
I am not referring to the malfunction, intended or non-intended, of one thousand plus voting machines. I am not alluding to the massive release of billions (...)
Around noon on June 30, a new government headed by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will be inaugurated. At about the same time, a new movement that took shape in the final leg of Vice President Leni Robredo’s 2022 presidential campaign will formally launch its manifold presence in the post-election (...)
Whether Vice President Leni Robredo wins or loses in the May 2022 elections, the campaign to make her president has produced something unprecedented in Philippine politics. It has unleashed a tide of citizen activism rarely seen in elections. It has spawned a social movement that seeks nothing (...)
Dear friends, Many of us in the social movements and CSOs in the Philippines believe that Leni Robredo, the current VP, is the most qualified to become the chief executive of 110 million Filipinas and Filipinos, primarily because she has done more for women’s rights than any other candidate, (...)
Because he had bungled them by bending to militarist advice, President Duterte recently expressed hope that the next administration would resume the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and succeed in forging a peace agreement to end the more than 50 years of internal armed conflict.
“I hope that (...)
“Guns, goons, and gold” is a catchphrase often used to describe the use of violence and vote-buying in elections. Not surprisingly, the phrase appears to have originated in the Philippines, most notably during the 1969 national elections, and was quickly picked up and popularized by local and (...)
Going into his final three months in office, President Duterte apparently realized he was far from achieving another one of his 2016 campaign promises: to achieve peace and end the 50-years-plus armed conflict with the underground Left revolutionary movement. Much earlier, he had conceded (...)
’There is no grander spectacle of nationalism than our practice of electoral exercises every three years’
Who among us would not remember falling in line every Monday morning, dressed in neatly pressed polos and blouses, leather shoes mint-shined, arms-width apart from our classmates, a grain of (...)
After five years of unjust imprisonment, one question gets more and more frequently asked of me, especially as the 2022 elections loom nearer: Why, despite all the controversies – of corruption, of abuses, of incompetence, of nepotism, of repression, of collusion with foreign enemies, and, (...)
The party-list elections have become a back door for politicians to perpetuate themselves in power, said Danilo Arao, a journalism professor and convenor of the election watchdog group Kontra Daya.
At least 70 of 177 party-list groups accredited by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the (...)
From the way he dresses, to the promises he makes, Marcos Jr. borrows from the late dictator. The reality is, the son is a fragile strongman.
MANILA, Philippines – While surveys, so far, have pointed to Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. as the clear frontrunner in the 2022 presidential elections, (...)
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is being made to account for his sins, not his father’s, says the human rights lawyer who recalls the hardships of his youth in Negros Occidental
BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – Presidential aspirant Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s efforts to paint his father’s two-decade dictatorship as a (...)
In 2007, Walden Bello was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines as a representative of Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party. He resigned before the end of his third term to protest the policies of President Benigno Aquino III. He is running for vice-president of the Philippines on (...)
Though we respect the decision of the Makabayan bloc to support Leni Robredo and Kiko Pangilinan’s candidacy for President and VP, we nonetheless think that it is an erroneous one. We have repeatedly tried in the past this kind of politics of tailing to bourgeois/elitist parties and candidates. (...)
MANILA – Progressive partylists under the Makabayan Coalition announced today, Jan. 29, that stopping of the return of the Marcoses and the Dutertes in power and Vice President Leni Robredo’s stand on issues affecting the marginalized are among the reasons they are endorsing her bid for (...)
This week President Duterte’s counterinsurgency task force and his top intelligence adviser impudently and condescendingly spoke against four presidential candidates who each expressed the intent to pursue the GRP-NDFP peace talks – which he had unilaterally terminated in 2017 – should she/he win (...)
MANILA – An environmental group is urging the Filipino people to elect leaders who will respect the rights of the indigenous peoples as the Philippine government continues to railroad the construction of the controversial Kaliwa Dam.
“We challenge all opposition and independent electoral (...)
The economic platforms of top presidential candidates, except that of a labor leader, will not foster growth for the Philippines, according to think tank IBON Foundation.
“With the outlier of Leody de Guzman, among all the leading candidates, they collectively constitute a market-friendly (...)
Walden Bello responds to frontrunner Vice-Presidential candidate Sara Duterte’s proposal to introduce mandatory military training for all 18 year olds
Sara Duterte’s signature legislative initiative is out, and she is right to be extremely defensive about it because it is one that should greatly (...)
Even as the country grappled with new strains of Covid-19 last year, the Duterte government’s drug war continued to claim more lives at the average rate of three deaths every two days.
Data collected by the Third World Studies Center of the University of the Philippines Diliman showed that in (...)
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