by Helen Yaffe, March 30, 2021, Counterpunch.org On 23 March 2021, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a group of Conservative Party backbenchers: ‘The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends.’ Johnson was articulating the dogma that the pursuit of private profit through capitalist free markets leads…
Women members of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), joined by their male colleagues, called the latest tirade of President Duterte addressing his soldiers to shoot female NPA rebels in their vaginas as a “vicious, violent and vile attack against all Filipino women by a macho-fascist President who has no balls to address the root causes of poverty and the fundamental problems of the country.”
Foreign lawyers underscore the pattern of “state-sanctioned” violence against Filipino lawyers in a press conference, March 18 at the IBP Building. (Photo by Alyssa Mae Clarin / Bulatlat) “The more serious the crime, the less serious the investigation.” By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA — An international fact-finding mission composed of nine lawyers from different…
As activists celebrate the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx, the University of the Philippines played The Internationale. The event was part of the global celebration of Marx’s theoretical contributions to the emancipation of the working class that will last an entire year. This is the first time after a long while that the Carillon…
The massacre of nine land reform beneficiaries in Sagay City, Negros Occidental Saturday night brought the number of killed farmer-activists to 172 under the Rodrigo Duterte regime, the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) and the Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) said. In condemning the massacre of the nine farmers, the groups blamed the…
The challenge for American activists and organizers is to now elevate these contradictions towards the primary question of class struggle; something that hasn’t been done since the Black Panther Party of the 1960s. By JUSTIN UMALI Bulatlat.com MANILA — On June 8, thousands of American protesters occupied roughly six blocks in Seattle, Washington, barricaded the…