Last December 10,2025, massive demonstrations were held in Manila, and in 14 other cities and provinces, like Baguio, Panay and Negros. The protest was led by Karapatan, and Bayan, were in commemoration of the 77th International Human Rights Day.
Thousands marched condemning the US-Marcos regime for its serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. They also expressed outrage over the large scale corruption that has been exposed. The marchers called for an end to the corrupt and oppressive US-Marcos Jr. regime.
Massive demonstrations, not seen for several decades, have been taking place since September 21,2025. This was followed by the demonstrations on November 30,2025, and then that of Decembeer 10.
In between these red-letter days, smaller numbers of demonstrations, walk-outs and other forms of protest have been taking place throughout the National Capital Region, as well as in cities and provinces throughout the Philippines. Many demonstrations are led by students in universities from northern Luzon to cities in the Visayas and Mindanao.
Not only students organized and joined the marches. In various communities, towns, factories, offices, churches and from different sectors, people have gone out to rally and march expressing their outrage against corruption and the rotten system.
The outrage began when the scandal of billions of pesos not going to flood control projects but instead into the pockets of contractors and members of Congress, the Senate and even the President himself, broke out.
Other forms of blatant government corruption came to light after this. Anomalous “farm to market roads” projects and various other infrastructure works have come to light. Hundreds of billions of pesos in allocables in the national budget have been uncovered, as well as Marcos’ illegal use of PhilHealth funds.
The demonstrators call out , “All those involved must be held accountable!”
The Communist Party of the Philippines declared in a statement: “(The) massive demonstrations mark a strong resurgence of the mass protest movement with the national democratic forces at the core. These are the biggest demonstrations since the 2013 protests against the Aquino 2 government over the issue of pork barrel and the Marcos No Hero protests of 2016. This resurgence is profoundly significant because it comes after relentless efforts by state security forces to suppress, harass, Red-tag and violently attack mass leaders and activists over the past several years. The massive demonstrations are a product of both the objective conditions of economic and political crisis, and the painstaking work of patriotic and democratic organized forces. Even in the face of violent state repression, they have persevered in arousing, organizing and mobilizing the people and building broad alliances and networks, in order to advance the people’s aspirations for social justice and genuine democracy.”