A Woman’s Place
- Published: 15 March 2022 15 March 2022
Volume IV, Number 5. 15 March 2022.
One hundred and eleven years ago, on 19 March 1911, women from Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland marched on the streets to celebrate the first International Working Women's Day. A year before that, during the Second International Conference of Working Women held in Copenhagen, Clara Zetkin, the leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party of Germany proposed that every year, in every country, Women’s Day should be celebrated as an occasion to press for the aspirations of women all over the world, marking the fight against poverty, illness, exploitation and imperialist wars.
Recipe for people’s uprising and social revolution
- Published: 28 February 2022 28 February 2022
Volume IV, Number 4. 28 February 2022.
Philippine revolutionary forces joined the Filipino people and the rest of the world on 25 February in commemorating the 36th anniversary of the Filipino people’s uprising which toppled the US-Marcos fascist dictatorship in 1986. We remember all the martyrs and heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice in waging various forms of struggle, even during the darkest nights of Marcos’ tyrannical rule. Their valiant resistance culminated in the 1986 people’s uprising and resulted in broader freedoms for expression, organizing and mobilization.
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Bloody forecast for the May 2022 elections
- Published: 15 February 2022 15 February 2022
Volume IV, Number 3. 15 February 2022.
The race is on! The campaign period for the 9 May national elections kicked off on 8 February to gaudy and flamboyant proclamation rallies. President Rodrigo Duterte is illegible for reelection, under Philippine laws, but the entire election campaign is focused on the tyrant nonetheless. Vying to rule the Manila government are Duterte proxies, Duterte aspirants and those who, for the time being, vow to reverse the tyrant’s traitorous, murderous and larcenous legacy.
Empowering state terror in the Philippines
- Published: 31 January 2022 31 January 2022
Volume IV, Number 2. 31 January 2022.
Two weeks ago, the government of President Rodrigo Duterte received six T129B attack helicopters from Turkey, the first batch of military equipment worth a total of PhP13.7 billion. In December 2021, the Duterte regime also acquired two batteries of self-propelled Soltam ATMOS 155mm howitzers worth PhP2.4 billion from Israel.
A pattern of war crimes and crimes against humanity
- Published: 15 January 2022 15 January 2022
Volume IV, Number 1. 15 January 2022.
On Christmas Eve, 24 December 2021, New People’s Army comrades Menandro Villanueva and Sandra Reyes were captured alive by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines after a gunbattle in Mabini town, Davao de Oro, in southern Philippines. At the time of his capture, Comrade Menandro was the National Commander of the NPA and a member of the Central Committee and Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
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