As Filipino peasants struggle to survive, Marcos finds time for Formula 1
- Published: 31 October 2026 31 October 2026
Vol. VIII, No. 19 - October 15, 2026
While Filipino peasant families struggle to stretch their income to cover rising costs of food, electricity, transportation and other basic necessities, Marcos Jr. found time to attend the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix on October 12, 2026. For a president whose country is confronting rising prices, a weakening peso and the looming threat of a severe El Niño, the spectacle of luxury underscores the gulf between Malacañang and the everyday struggles of the Filipino masses.
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr, a feeling of déjà vu, but more
- Published: 08 October 2026 08 October 2026
Vol. VIII, No. 18 - September 30, 2026
In the past few weeks the Duterte faction, in its fight versus the Marcos faction, has been receiving powerful blows. Its patriarch, former president Rodrigo Duterte, accused of grave crimes against humanity, was scheduled to face the first formal hearing in the International Criminal Court. Meanwhile, his erstwhile chief of police and administrator of the rampage, now Senator Rogelio “Bato” de la Rosa has been hiding since November last year to avoid an ICC arrest order. Earlier, a handful of other high officials including a senator has been named by the ICC as co-perpetrators and now fear of being arrested.
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Remembering Martial Law: “Marcos was the biggest recruiter of the NPA”
- Published: 18 September 2026 18 September 2026
Vol. VIII, No. 17 - September 15, 2026
In the Philippines, the conflict between the two dominant political factions of Marcos and Duterte has been escalating in an unprecedented crescendo. The regime’s president Fernando Marcos Jr and vice president Sara Duterte are tightening their hold in each other’s throat, goaded and aided by their respective band of supporters. In the meantime, the Filipino people, increasingly suffering from rising cost of living, lack of jobs, failed agriculture due to feudal practices and natural calamities and violations of their political and human rights, are getting organized and fight for a systemic change to a more equitable and just society.
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MDT remains a pillar of US imperialist domination in the Philippines
- Published: 07 September 2026 07 September 2026
Vol. VIII, No. 16 - August 31, 2026
The recent Mutual Defense Board-Security Engagement Board (MDB-SEB) meeting held on August 7 at Camp Aguinaldo once again laid bare the deepening subservience of the Marcos Jr. regime to US imperialism. In the meeting, top officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the US military signed the so-called "8-star memo," a document that will govern hundreds of military activities and operations across the country in 2027. At the same time, both sides reaffirmed the 75-year-old Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), one of the most enduring instruments of US neocolonial control over the Philippines.
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Marcos Jr.’s “openness to peace talks” remains hollow and unconvincing
- Published: 14 August 2026 14 August 2026
Vol. VIII, No. 15 - August 15, 2026
The Marcos Jr. regime wants the Filipino people to believe that it is serious about pursuing peace. The regime now speaks of being "open to peace talks" with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. Yet these declarations ring hollow when measured against the administration's actual record. Peace cannot be built on empty rhetoric while military offensives intensify, political dissent is criminalized, peace consultants remain imprisoned or killed, and the state continues to wage an all-out campaign of repression against those it considers enemies.
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