Weather the storms, gain greater victories in 2022
- Published: 31 December 2021 31 December 2021
Volume III, Number 24. 31 December 2021.
It is extremely saddening to receive reports that more than 400 have died, several hundreds have been injured and at least 60 more are missing from the destructive effects of super typhoon Odette (Rai). Millions of Filipinos, mostly poor fishers, peasants and farmworkers, have lost their homes, properties and livelihood. The Duterte government estimates damages to infrastructure at US$326.35 million and to agriculture at US$77.53 million.
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Condemn the Duterte regime for violations of International Humanitarian Law
- Published: 15 December 2021 15 December 2021
Volume III, Number 23. 15 December 2021.
On 1 December, the Armed Forces of the Philippines dropped 500-lb bombs and shelled with howitzers a community in Miag-ao, Iloilo, killing at least nine people in the horrendous carnage. The AFP claimed that they attacked a 70-strong force of the New People’s Army. But this was refuted by the Communist Party of the Philippines who said that only a small unit of the NPA was deployed in the area to assist in the villagers’ farming activities.
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Delaying the inevitable
- Published: 30 November 2021 30 November 2021
Volume III, Number 22. 30 November 2021.
Sensing the inevitable, President Rodrigo Duterte and his accomplices are suing for time. His stooge in The Hague sent a letter to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan on 10 November requesting that the ICC suspend its investigations and proceedings relating to the “alleged crimes against humanity committed throughout the Philippines between 1 July 2016 and 16 March 2019… as well as in the Davao area between 1 November 2011 and 30 June 2016.”
The memory of Ka Oris will live forever
- Published: 15 November 2021 15 November 2021
Volume III, Number 21. 15 November 2021.
The Communist Party of the Philippines, all revolutionary forces and friends of the revolutionary movement are deeply saddened by the death of Ka Oris, Comrade Jorge Madlos. The Filipino people, especially the countless peasants and Lumad people whom Ka Oris personally encountered in more than five decades of revolutionary service, feel a deep sense of loss with Ka Oris’ death, but at the same time, are enraged over how he was killed by the cowardly and dishonorable fascists.
What happens to public funds in the Philippines?
- Published: 31 October 2021 31 October 2021
Volume III, Number 20. 31 October 2021.
Try following the trail of public funds in the Duterte government. Billions of pesos traverse expansive multi-lane highways leading to the pockets – or secret overseas bank accounts – of President Rodrigo Duterte, his cronies and the highest government officials. Meanwhile, some pesos and cents trudge narrow muddy roads to eventually trickle into the country’s derelict educational system, healthcare, agricultural sector and social services.