At this time of the year since 2011, I have written in this space a piece about martial law and the Marcos dictatorship. Mostly I have ruminated on the wrong decisions by the Cory Aquino government that have, since then, allowed the pernicious imprint of martial law – military and police abuses, extrajudicial killings, enforced…
The “independent foreign policy” that President Rodrigo Duterte said he wants to adopt for the Philippines has for some reason been interpreted as either a policy of isolationor autarky in the sense of non-involvement with the rest of the world and a denial of the interdependence of nations, or as a total break with the…
To any objective, impartial observer, there is no denying that mass poverty, chronic joblessness and socioeconomic inequality constitute stark realities in the country today. Even the past Aquino government, while making extravagant claims about the “robust” state of the Philippine economy, has acknowledged the lack of “inclusive growth.” Plainly speaking, this only means the rich…
“There should be due process.”
“This is the meat of the problem, the basic suffering of the people, which is connected to their stomach.”
During the first round of formal talks in Oslo, Norway held in August, both parties agreed to “reconcile and develop their separate unilateral ceasefire orders into a single unified bilateral document within 60 days.”
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective For the past month, the general public has been treated with often colorful Congressional inquiries: earlier by the Senate Justice and Human Rights Committee, then headed by Sen. Leila de Lima, and later by the House Justice Committee being chaired by Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali. The Senate inquiry was…
Students nationwide stage a walkout to commemorate martial law and protest its repressive legacies.
Every year, Negrenses reenact the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 farmers in Escalante, Negros Occidental.
“Until now, we have not attained justice. We will continue to fight for it.”
“Solidarity is to rise as one: against neoliberalism, patriarchy, militarism – and all their allied evils.”