CPP calls on NPA to avenge the Tumandok 9
“The NPA is duty-bound to defend the Tumandok people by holding to account the perpetrators of these crimes and carrying out offensives to disable the fascists from carrying out further attacks and armed suppression against Tumandok minorities,” the CPP said.
2020 saw most brazen abuses vs journalism—NUJP
The year 2020 had been particularly bad for journalism in the Philippines that saw more media workers killed, arrested, jailed and lose their jobs, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) reported.
2020 Yearender: Economic lessons from Jose Rizal
Sustained administration disinformation and diversionary tactics seek to hide a plain fact: the government’s mismanagement of the pandemic and economy is behind the worst economic collapse in the region and in Philippine history. The coming year can be better only if the people keep working at changing the government and governance for the better.
Gov’t ignores appeal for Ladlad’s hospitalization; Alcantara’s son arrested to force father to surrender
“I am appealing to Manila RTC (Regional Trial Court) Branch 32 Judge Thelma Bunyi Medina for prompt action now on our motion to bring my husband, political prisoner Vicente Ladlad, to MMC for immediate treatment for repeated chest tightness since 11 AM today,” Fides Lim said.
Another farmer killed in Bohol as 9 Tumandok are massacred in Panay
Another peasant activist in Bohol Province was killed just as nine Tumandok civilians in Panay Island were being massacred last Wednesday in one of the bloodiest day for farmers under the four-year old Rodrigo Duterte government.
Gov’t troops massacre 9 Tumandok in Panay
Two days before the year ends, 12th Infantry Battalion-Philippine Army (12IBPA) troopers and the Philippine National Police in Western Visayas swooped down on Tumandok communities in Calinog in Iloilo and Tapaz in Capiz and killed the victims in a Synchronized Enhanced Management of Police Operations (SEMPO).
NDFP reveals CPP-NPA urged to form partisan teams ‘to fight gov’t abuses’
Sison said there are enough bases for small teams “to conduct armed partisan operations in the cities to mete out revolutionary justice against Duterte’s terrorist forces based in the urban areas.”
Capitalism Upon COVID-19
The pandemic’s impact drew attention to many of the worst aspects of the world capitalist system – inadequate health care systems, vast inequalities in income, wealth and conditions, gaps in essential goods and services, economic resources going to non-essentials, environmental impact of economic activities, disproportionate burdens on the working class, regressive fiscal systems, authoritarianism, racism and xenophobia, and more. These are all pre-existing conditions but, for many, were seen in a new light.
CPP claims NPA builds new guerilla fronts despite AFP’s all-out war
The CPP said the NPA has built new guerrilla fronts and expanded old guerrilla fronts in several regions – including Southern Tagalog, Bicol, Negros, Eastern Visayas, Northeast Mindanao, North Central Mindanao, Southern Mindanao and Far South Mindanao — despite the large-scale and sustained military operations mounted by the AFP the past year.
Sea of white makes crusading Bishop’s heart grateful
“We are very much in touch with our people and we truly express their deepest sentiments when we called on them to wear white as an act of solidarity and to express our desire for and commitment to peace, sanctity of life, human dignity and human rights, and our collective call to end the killings, COVID pandemic and abuse of our common home,” San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza said.