Topic: Philippines

Duterte keeps on flipflopping between calling for an investigation of corruption in the handling of more than 17 billion pesos for the 30th Southeast Games and absolving Cayetano

The best way to celebrate Bonifacio Day is to renew and reinvigorate the revolutionary unity and will of the Filipino people to continue the struggle for genuine national independence and democracy

The killer aswang in Philippine legend comes to life through the Duterte regime which engages in the mass murder of poor suspected drug users and pushers in the squalid slums of Manila in a bogus war on illegal drugs which actually protects the drug lords

“Now, Duterte looks like a fool, pasinto-sinto, by firing her after only two weeks,”

“Since the beginning, he has been afraid that she would discover from local officials and US intelligence how he actually protects the biggest drug lords under his mafia syndicate or crime family,” Sison said.

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