Health workers demand payment of pandemic bonuses
The Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government is not telling health workers when will they be paid for their performance-based bonuses (PBB) from 2021 to 2023 when the corona virus pandemic was still raging over much of the country.
Bayan Muna’s better record
Given its record, voters are advised to return Bayan Muna #59 to the House of Representatives and continue its legislative work and pursue the core interest of workers, which is for higher wages and lower prices of prime commodities, and the demand of farmers to end a food security policy anchored on importations of rice, vegetables, fish and meat, which subvert the very interest of domestic producers and small businesses in the rural areas.
Duterte’s ICC arrest is the first domino: Can new leaders rise in the power struggle ahead?
For human rights lawyer Kristina Conti, the ICC proceedings offer a rare and vital opportunity to confront the truth about Duterte’s “drug war” and to establish that extrajudicial killings are wrong—under any leader, in any era.
Sara, Bong Go on mind-conditioning sprees
Why is Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go always leading in surveys for the senatorial race? Well, the answer is that those surveys are commissioned surveys, and it appears that Go has been busy winning in those types of surveys, weeks after other surveys did not find him overtaking his rivals.
Ipaglaban ang kalayaan sa pamamahayag
“We must not allow the continued silencing of dissent and independent journalism under the guise of national security. The NTF-ELCAC has been used to systematically red-tag and endanger journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens. It must be abolished. Ang kalayaan sa pamamahayag ay hindi lamang isyu ng media – ito ay isyu ng mamamayan. Kapag tinatarget ang media, tinatarget din ang katotohanan at karapatan ng bawat Pilipino.”
Trump’s art of the steal using tariff ploy
US President Donald Trump always enjoys a criminal level of optimism in everything he does, from grifting Americans, stiffing contractors and bankrupting his companies. Now, he has also mastered the art of the steal through insider trading, when he intimated that he was pausing the tariff hike scheduled for April 9, 2025, leading to frenzied buys at the stock market that zoomed 2,100%, with Charles Schwab amassing a $2.5 billion gain.
Bayan Muna welcomes media electoral agenda
Ocampo said he “very much agrees” with all the demands in the agenda and expressed delight in several items, including those against red-tagging, the abolition of the NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict), the repeal of the Anti-Terrorism Act and other repressive laws, and the enactment of a human rights defenders bill.
The 2025 Media Electoral Agenda
As the 2025 midterm elections draw near, we, journalists, media workers, and advocates of free speech, free press, and free expression, reiterate the role of an independent media in a democracy and the need for a media electoral agenda.
Group asks poll body to prevent fraud on election day
Ian Aragoza, spokesperson of the Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) and co-lead petitioner, stressed the importance of manual vote counting: “Because the source code is not available to the public, we don’t know how the machines count and transmit our votes.”
Dismantling a dynasty: Vico Sotto is redefining local leadership
It is no wonder that despite numerous triumphs of “dynasty slayers” out there, we can still see dynasties persist across the county. Is it possible to prevent them from coming back to power?