On Trump tariff hikes: PH subservience is not strategy

July 10, 2025

Subservience isn’t strategy—sovereignty is. A government that charts an independent economic path for the Philippines is long overdue.

Healthy labor market? Over 2M increase in poorly paid Filipinos says otherwise – IBON

July 8, 2025

May 2025 labor force figures do not show decent jobs being created, but a deepening jobs crisis marked by rising informality, falling job quality, and stagnant wages.

Php50 NCR wage hike token giveaway, not enough for Filipinos’ basic needs

July 1, 2025

NEWS

The Marcos Jr administration on its 3rd year is using token wage hikes as a giveaway to boost its image, not to give much-needed relief to struggling Filipino workers.

Marcos Jr government rightly called out at UN for its human rights abuses

June 18, 2025

STATEMENT

The Marcos Jr administration is getting the international attention it deserves. Despite human rights posturing, it is a serial violator like the Duterte government before it.

Sara Duterte’s corruption case, a crushing blow to education

June 13, 2025

FEATURES

The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte is a crucial step toward delivering justice to the gravely betrayed public.

Half-million drop in manufacturing: Jobs crisis highlights urgency of Filipino industrialization – IBON

June 8, 2025

Despite government claims of job resilience, research group IBON said that the country’s jobs crisis persists with significant manufacturing losses and worsening quality of work. The year-on-year increase in unemployed and underemployed Filipinos, lack of decent work, and huge drop in manufacturing jobs underscore the urgent need for a serious national industrialization strategy to create […]

Historic legislated wage hike can be first step to family living wage nationwide

June 5, 2025

NEWS

The 19th Congress passing a legislated minimum wage hike between Php100 and 200 are important first steps towards a family living wage nationwide.

Water wars: A global battle for public control

May 30, 2025

In the Philippines and worldwide, private sector involvement in water services has only led to broken promises of better management, rising costs, and deteriorating services. The growing number of contract terminations and public takeovers shows growing resistance against profit-driven water management and highlights the need to prioritize people over profits.

Great Cabinet Revamp is a dud

May 25, 2025

There’s no doubt that a revamp of government, governance and the Cabinet is overdue. But the Cabinet revamp can’t just be recycling combined with superficially new names or faces. It should mean new ideas for solving old problems and the political will to act on them.