FERDINAND “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., then an outgoing senator, ran for the vice-presidency in 2016. He has refused to concede defeat to Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo and is contesting her victory before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET). Well-known are his far from secret ambitions for the presidency of the Republic, to which his winning…
MANILA — The Supreme Court has extended for the second time the status quo ante order (SQAO) temporarily stopping the plan to give the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos a hero’s burial. The high court has extended the SQAO until Nov. 8. The petitioners were expecting the SC to issue its decision over the petitions…
Environmental activists and advocates say they want for zero vote for Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. is leading in the latest surveys on who voters are inclined to choose as vice-president come May 9. The news is troubling as well as perplexing. The very real prospect that the political heirs of the Dictator Marcos will be returning to Malacañang marks a major advance in the full blown…
As Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. brings his vice-presidential campaign to Baguio City, the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacañang (Carmma) reminded the people of the North to never forget martial law, and to say No to Bongbong Marcos. Political prisoners during martial law and members of progressive people’s organisations hang streamers on…
Ilena Saturay contributed this interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines and current chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) regarding martial law, the Plaza Miranda bombing and the political ambitions of the dictator’s son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. By ILENA M. SATURAY UTRECHT, the…
“Both Mar and Bongbong are despicable representatives of everything that is wrong and rotten in the circus called the Philippine Elections.”
“What was restored 30 years ago and continues to this day are only the trappings of elite democracy – periodic elections, Congress and a Constitution that guarantees civil liberties. The people demand more than that. They demand genuine freedom and democracy that goes beyond the mere holding of elections.”
Why did not the administrations after Marcos ensure an accurate account of the Marcos dictatorship in history books ?
A gathering of martial law activists and victims pledged to keep retelling their painful stories, so the younger generation would not let these happen again.
A campaign aims to educate the youth on the horrors of martial law, and how it could happen again with the election of the Marcos Dictator’s son as vice president.