A People’s Green New Deal? A look at PH labor

Dr. Max Ajl’s book A People’s Green New Deal presents socialist proposals on addressing climate change that are indeed doable and inspiring. In Chapter 5, he leaves us analytical notes on labor, planning and construction for an eco-socialist future, and industry and manufacturing, among others. These get us thinking about our own context in order to contribute to the operationalization of a people’s Green New Deal.

News

Ayuda urgent as jobs crisis worsens from govt’s failed lockdowns, response

June 10, 2021

There’s money for bigger Bayanihan 3: Economic managers just refusing to give more — IBON

May 26, 2021

Ayuda still needed even with shift to GCQ

May 15, 2021

Negative econ growth underscores jobs crisis – IBON

May 12, 2021

On the first quarter 2021 GDP growth: Govt missteps stalling real PH recovery

May 12, 2021

Gov’t hyping employment gains to avoid giving more ayuda, stimulus – IBON

May 6, 2021

Greater Manila ECQ/MECQ shallow without aggressive COVID response – IBON

May 5, 2021

Ayuda urgent: Jobs crisis still worse than before pandemic — IBON

April 30, 2021

Features

Under the Duterte administration,the Philippine economy was already weak before the pandemic and made worse by inept COVID-19 response.

Duterterioration of the Philippine economy

June 3, 2021

There is a raging debate about whether or not the WTO should temporarily waive some intellectual property rights of Covid-19 pharmaceuticals. Developed countries oppose the proposal, but recently the US has announced its limited support, while the EU continues to wrangle over its necessity. For proponents, the waiver would speed up and scale up vaccine production and contribute to a faster vaccination process in poorer countries.

The TRIPS waiver on Covid-19 pharmaceuticals and the Big Pharma

June 2, 2021

For a nation that supposedly keeps strong traditions of filial piety, it should be a source of shame that many of its elderly are living in poverty and now disproportionately at risk of dying from the coronavirus.

The Filipino elderly are left behind

May 13, 2021

The Duterte government with its EO 130 continues to argue for the reckless exploitation of the country’s vast mineral wealth for other countries’ corporate gains and industrial benefits. This makes the projected gains from large-scale mining even paltrier than they already are. We are giving up the non-renewable resource, the Philippines’ huge potential to industrialize, for nothing.

EO 130: Much fuss about paltry gains

April 26, 2021

The Philippines is not expected to be ahead of the vaccine race being a poor, non-industrial and import-dependent country. But despite our underdevelopment, we still deserve better and more efficient government handling of our predicament.

Mass vaccination PH: Throwing away our shots (Part Two)

April 15, 2021

A number of Asian countries are seeing an increase in COVID with surges particularly large in South Asia and, in Southeast Asia, the Philippines. The Duterte administration has been telling us since last year that the arrival of vaccines is its ultimate solution but, dismally, these are coming in trickles.

Mass vaccination PH: Throwing away our shots (Part One)

April 15, 2021

Infographics

As Filipinos’ suffering increases, government ayuda decreases

Infoposts

“Independent foreign policy”? Not in WPS

Photoquotes

IBON Executive Director on the Department of Agriculture’s National Food Security Summit

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