CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Phil. Drug Enforcement Agency-10 (PDEA-10) has identified 22 more village officials in Northern Mindanao…
Marx200 celebrated in the Philippines
Workers, peasants, women, teachers and students celebrated the Karl Marx Bicentenary on May 5, 2018 at the University of the Philippines with poems, skits, songs and artworks. Prof. Jose Ma. Sison made the keynote address delving into the current crisis of the world monopoly capitalist system and the resurgence of proletarian revolutionary struggles. Dr. Ramon […]
No double pay hike for teachers
DAVAO CITY-President Rodrigo Duterte declared on Friday an incremental salary increase to public school teachers. “Pero ang inyo, kayo ang…
Duterte’s “strongman” image, a facade of cowardice
“Strongmen” like Rodrigo Duterte exercise power through State terror and violence with impunity, couched in populist language that misleads the public and trains the guns of his armed forces and police on his perceived enemies – the people. His “strength” comes from dehumanizing the urban poor and workers by calling them “drug addicts” and “lazy criminals,” by tagging activists and political dissenters as “terrorists,” and by branding any and all criticism to his anti-people policies as forms of “destabilization.”
Lumad evacuees defend deported Australian missionary nun
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – The indigenous people of Southern Mindanao has defended Sr. Patricia Fox from the Bureau of Immigration’s…
NUJP wins St. Scholastica’s Hildegarde Awards for defense of press freedom
For its staunch defense of press freedom, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has been awarded this year’s Hildegarde Award for Print Journalism by the St. Scholastica’s College Department of Mass Communication. The ceremony was held last May 4. NUJP director Ronalyn Olea accepted the award in behalf of the Union.
EO 51 entrench anti-worker practice, labor group claims
As it commended the workers who showed up in a unity rally on Labor Day, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) also criticized President Rodrigo Duterte for issuing Executive Order No. 51, a measure which it said failed to stop and legalized the practice of contractualization in the country.
Most Filipinos oppose charter change, survey says
Many Filipinos may be open to amend the 1987 Philippine Constitution sometime in the future, but majority expressed their opposition if such charter change is effected now.