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Members of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) gathered in person in Barcelona, Catalunya on November 20, 2025 ahead of its 25th year of anti-imperialist struggle and 8th International Assembly.
Indigenous peoples groups honor the youth martyrs who sacrificed their lives fighting for their people's rights in 'Gabi ng Parangal para sa mga Katutubong Bayani' at Liwasang Diokno, Commission on Human Rights, Nov. 20.
Cebuanos formed the KASUKKO (Kalihukang Sugboanon Kontra Korapsyon) on November 18, 2025 at the Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Educators, church leaders, lawyers, human rights defenders, and community organizations banded together to continue pushing for accountability amid mounting public outrage over corruption tied to flood control projects.
"While our students are struggling, our money is being siphoned into the pockets of corrupt government officials."
“The artists of Hardware 3 have spent decades as witness/participant to the repudiation of normalizing any variant of slavery..."
ACT Teachers Representative and Deputy Minority Leader Antonio Tinio slammed Marcos Jr's hypocrisy.
Locals told Bulatlat that flood control projects in their area appear inconsistent. Some sections have riverwalls while others have none.
Edge Uyanguren, CAP secretary general, lambasted bureaucrat capitalism as the core behind rampant corruption in the country, saying it enables government officials to siphon the hard-earned money of the Filipino people for personal interests.
Students from various school-based organizations in Cagayan de Oro hold a solidarity protest at the state-run University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP) on Tuesday, October 28, denouncing the military attacks in Palestine that resulted in the killings of thousands of innocent individuals.
The exhibit sheds light on pressing questions and the realities behind them–how the hard work of peasants is exploited by landlords and corporations, and how the worsening effects of typhoons and floods continue to devastate rural communities while funds meant for relief and disaster prevention are pocketed by corrupt officials.
“This is not a local dispute; this is part of a global system of land grabbing and corporate greed protected by repressive government and financed by foreign capital, including British capital,”
They decried the state's land use conversion process, which has threatened their livelihoods in order to make room for corporate-backed development projects.
Today’s protest action marks the culmination of a series of peasant-led campaigns and advocacy activities carried out across Metro Manila.
Mong Palatino, secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), said that the current genocide in the Palestine did not start two years ago, but a culmination of over a century of conflict.
Progressive groups stormed Luneta in a mass action to denounce what they called massive corruption in flood control and other government infrastructure projects. They condemned the diversion of billions of pesos to anomalous contracts and kickbacks, stressing that such public funds could have been channeled instead to essential social services. They argued that the money pocketed on corruption could have strengthened the country’s ailing public hospitals, financed the construction of much-needed classrooms, and provided long-overdue salary increases for workers.
"It's time to make militant resistance the defining characteristic of the youth again."
Thousands gathered at Luneta earlier today, Sept. 21, to denounce corruption and demand accountability over flood control projects mired in controversy.
"Year after year, PUP’s budget is slashed while billions are lost to corruption—such as flood control projects—funded by taxpayers."
“We want to explore different ways to encourage more people to take action in the fight against corruption>
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