’19 MARTYRS’: CPP confirms ‘big loss’ in military aerial strike in E. Samar
“They were among the best sons and daughters of the people who dedicated their lives to the cause of national freedom and democracy. Their deaths bear hard upon the hearts of the workers and peasants across the country and all the oppressed peoples in the entire world,” the Communist Party of the Philippines said.
BINHI NG TULA
“Ang balita kahapo’y kagila-gilalas / ‘Sang hiningang maluwalhating napigtas / Buhay na tapat sa hangaring lumaya / Kamataya’y makapangyarihang tula…”
Farmers to military: ‘You, not Kerima, are the terrorists’
“State armed forces seem confused about what terrorism is. Serving the people—which was what Kerima Lorena Tariman did—is not terrorism,” UMA chairperson Antonio Flores said.
Poet Kerima Tariman dies in Negros fire fight
NPA Negros’ regional Apolinario Gatmaitan Command said Tariman was killed along with a Comrade Pabling in a fire fight with the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army at Hacienda Raymunda, Barangay Kapitan Ramon on Friday, August 20, at around six o’clock in the morning.
Reds urge people to brace for worse COVID crisis; rallies forces to lead fight vs. ‘tyrant Duterte’
The CPP challenged its forces as well as progressive, patriotic and democratic activists to bear “the responsibility of guiding and leading the Filipino people in their fight against Duterte’s ruling tyranny.” The Filipino masses have been deprived of everything. They have nothing else to lose, the CPP said.
BAYAN’s Reyes says Afghan gov’t collapse is another defeat for US imperialism
US imperialism did not bring them change and development but deeper crisis,” BAYAN secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. said.
Thailand protests against pandemic mismanagement met with police violence
ce violence on Saturday, August 7. Police used water cannons, rubber bullets, and tear gas against the protestors and arrested at least 18 people.
Accountability calls mount as hospitals fill up with new COVID patients
As hospitals announce an overflow of coronavirus patients, calls for accountability are again mounting for the Rodrigo Duterte government’s “ineffective” response to the pandemic.
KMP: Gov’t anti-insurgency drive targets farmers, people’s organizations
“[T]he majority of these so-called surrenderers are civilians — ordinary farmers who were either coerced, forced, or duped into ‘surrendering’ to the government,” the KMP said.
44M kilos of fertilizer from South Korea shipped to Philippine landfill
Forty-four million kilos of “fertilizer” from South Korea were shipped to a sanitary landfill being built in Barangay Bon-ot of mining town Carrascal in Surigao del Sur, prompting a new foreign waste dumping investigation in the Philippines and calls to return it to South Korea.