“The US aims to firm up its military foothold in the country, which serves as a base for forward deployment of military forces in line with its hegemonic ‘Asia pivot’ to secure for itself the trade routes, sources of cheap labor and areas for investments in the Asia-Pacific countries.”
Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal described the ‘democracy’ prevailing in the country as ‘disgrasya’ and not ‘demokrasya’. (an unfortunate circumstance and not a democracy)
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com News about the 47th anniversary of the Communist Party highlighted the group’s statement about the growing strength of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Mindanao on one hand and Malacanang’s dismissal of the claim on the other. This is newsworthy but not really new. Supporters and critics of the armed…
If history repeats itself in 2016 and beyond, this time as farce, the joke would be on every Filipino…
What is at stake in the upcoming elections? Bulatlat columnist and UP professor interviewed Prof. Jose Maria Sison to get the views and the position of the Left, a significant political bloc in the country, on the upcoming 2016 elections.
Friends and comrades of Sison also turned the celebration of his lifework into the launching day of the campaign to revitalize and expand the work of the Center for Social Studies.
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PRESS RELEASE April 13, 2011 MANILA — Alex Padilla, head of the Aquino government’s peace panel, does not know what he’s talking about when he claimed that the Filipino youth are pre-occupied with so-called “cyber-pursuits” and are no longer interested in engaging in social activism, and that the revolutionary movement will eventually die a natural…
PRESS RELEASE Information Bureau, Communist Party of the Philippines March 28, 2011 The “NPA will grow stronger and the Armed Struggle will intensify because of the ever worsening crisis in the country!” This is the statement of two revolutionary underground organizations Kabataang Makabayan (KM) and the Pambansang Katipunan ng Magsasaka (PKM)- Negros before the 42nd…