Category: Press statements

I am appalled and disgusted by the Duterte regime’s naked and shameless incompetence, waste and plunder of public funds in the mismanagement of the hosting of the 30th Southeast Asian Games

Duterte was clearly never sincere in appointing VP Leni Robredo as co-chair of the Inter-agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD)

It is fine that from 64 there are now 78 congressmen signing the petition to stop the crackdown on the legal patriotic and progressive organizations

The underemployment figure is usually far higher than the unemployment figure and is always used to conceal full unemployment

The rigging of the mid-term elections was most evident during the so many hours of blackout of the vote count for senatorial and party list candidates

The Philippine labor force is 44 million. If 10 million lost their jobs, that is a whopping 23 per cent of the labor force added to the ranks of the unemployed

It is neither the Filipino people’s struggle for national and social liberation nor the far future of communism that is the cause of intolerable oppression and exploitation but the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system

“The corrupt military and civilian officials would rather make money on fake development and fake community support projects and fake surrenders, and fake casualties for pure psywar, thus further bankrupting the reactionary government,”

Because of the militarization and fascisation of the reactionary government under the NTF-ELCAC, civil and military personnel and resources are being misallocated and bureaucratic and military corruption is heavily fed

Duterte and his minions are now worrying that the US intelligence agencies are already providing information to Robredo about the massive laundering of drug money through Dennis Uy’s…