The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is celebrating its 52nd anniversary today, 24 April 2025, by vowing to establish more revolutionary organizations in addition to the 18 of its affiliates, expand the mass base for the armed struggle and create more organs of political power across the entire archipelago.
If Garcia were to be true to his mandate as the guardian of free, honest and transparent elections, then he should stop all attempts to create a bandwagon effect by both the Duterte and Marcos Jr. senatorial slates, tighten the screws on the alphabet soup of polling firms that gains purchase only during election periods.
Three weeks before the May 12, mid-term elections, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is ramping up its campaign against progressive partylists and the Makabayan Coalition senatorial slate and mocking the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to enforce its prohibition of red-tagging, which the Supreme Court (SC) ruled as illegal and a threat to the lives of Filipinos.
Give the entire Filipino people a break, release them from increasing food prices, recurrent hikes in electricity and water rates. In the end, they hunger for a compassionate administration, not a bloody one.
The Ecumenical Bishops Forum (EBF) has extended its message of solidarity to the Roman Catholic Church as it mourns the demise of Pope Francis. In a statement issued of April 22, EBF national coordinator Ofelia A. Cantor said the forum acknowledges the legacy of love and compassion of Pope Francis.
Trump’s narrative of trade injustice reverses reality. It is not the US that suffers from the current order, but countries structurally tethered to a system they cannot control.
The privatization of water districts that started with the willy-nilly policy of the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo administration and which Manny Villar seized as an opportunity to expand his political base and multiply his wealth has become the bane of millions of Filipinos, with Villar’s Prime Water being the worst example of a company that has earned billions while depriving sustained supply of clean water to millions of Filipinos in 134 out of 584 districts nationwide.
The Ecumenical Bishops Forum (EBF) and the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP) have called on the faithful to join them and other organizations in calling for the resumption of the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP.)
Ang ekspresyon sa kanyang mukha habang nagkukwento kung paano siya kinuryente, hinubaran, tinaniman ng mga kung anu-anong ebidensya, ay bakas na bakas sa gigil at tikas sa kanyang mukha.
Cyabra, an Israel-based firm that monitors disinformation worldwide, conceded that the Philippines is the epicenter of the disinformation epidemic, with the situation worsening after Marc 11, 2025, when the unlamented ex-president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested and bundled off to The Hague by the International Criminal Court (ICC.)
