EDSA 30th – people’s rage
On the 30th anniversary of the EDSA People Power, demonstrators led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) and affiliates of the Philippines chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS-Phils) broke through layers of police and army phalanx to assert national freedom and democracy and say no to another Marcos.
ESCALATING REVOLUTION: One Billion Rising in UP Diliman
Students, faculty and staff of the University of the Philippines in Diliman held its One Billion Rising 2016 event last February 12. Themed “Escalating Revolution” this year’s commemoration marks the fourth straight year the university held its own program as its contribution to the global campaign against violence against women. One Billion Rising was started […]
Heneral Luna matters
Commemorating the Philippine-American War on February 4, 2016, protesters against the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) marched to the US embassy in Manila carrying cut-outs of Heneral Luna as portrayed in a much-acclaimed historical film. The groups are affiliated with the Philippines chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS-Phils) and the Bagong Alyansang […]
LARAWAN: Junk Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)
US Embassy, Manila February 4, 2016
Human rights raps in the Philippines
Human Rights Day 2015 in the Philippines with street protests on violations under a neocolonial regime. Speakers include torture victim Fr. Ben Alforque and KARAPATAN secretary-general Tinay Palabay. The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) also demanded the release of Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar and all political prisoners.
This is not Bonifacio High Street
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Philippines chapter takes part in commemorating Bonifacio Day 2015 in the streets of Manila amid jeepneys, SUVs and dilapidated buildings. This is not Bonifacio High Street of the high-end botique districts of global cities but a protest march of wage-workers, private and public, saying “there can be no […]
REPOST: BALSA National Relief Caravan for Samar and Leyte (with English subtitles)
New group P1NAS launched to defend Philippine sovereignty
Political and civil society leaders launched the broad Pilipinong Nagkakaisa para sa Soberanya (P1NAS) at Miriam College last October 20, vowing to defend Philippine sovereignty against escalating Chines and US military activities in the West Philippine Sea. The group revealed they plan to inform US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping of their […]
BAYAN to Pnoy: Hands Off Activists and Human Rights Defenders
Press Statement July 18, 2015 The increased and widespread harassment and intimidation of government critics and oppositionists in the run-up to Pres. Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) later this month is a dangerous sign that the Aquino government is adopting the tactics of notorious human rights violator Jovito Palparan – with the blessings […]
Big rally set for Aquino’s final SONA
Various groups and critics of the regime are preparing to mount another big rally on the sixth and final State of the Nation Address of President Benigno Aquino III on July 27. Carrying different issues and grievances, this year’s SONA rally will sum-up the more than five years of the Aquino regime. “For Aquino, the […]