News

On the BBM impeachment: No one is too big to fall

January 22, 2026

The Marcos Jr administration cannot be allowed to claim anti-corruption credentials while preserving its systems of political patronage and control.

Gov’t debt balloons to feed Marcos admin’s huge pork barrel addiction

December 9, 2025

The huge increase in debt corresponds to huge increases in controversial indicators of pork barrel in the national budgets under Pres. Marcos Jr.

Groups hold media forum, exposing privatization as systemic theft at play

December 8, 2025

Public funds and resources continue to be used by bureaucrats and private entities to operate and manage public facilities to enrich themselves and stay in power.

Worsening jobs crisis, poverty counters PH economy “stands firm” claims

December 3, 2025

NEWS

The Marcos administration’s claim that the economy stands firm on strong fundamentals is oblivious to how many ordinary Filipinos are struggling amid worsening joblessness and poverty

Why all COPs are bad

November 25, 2025

STATEMENT

Capitalist countries continue to dodge their responsibility for the climate crisis.

PH economic growth is corruption-driven and exclusionary

November 8, 2025

Economic growth in the third quarter of 2025 is the slowest in 14 years, exposing the corruption-driven and exclusionary nature of the Philippine economy.

Job-destroying growth debunks stable labor market claims

November 6, 2025

Recent job losses show how unstable the Philippine labor market remains, reflecting the weakness of the overall economy.

NAIA privatization: Bigger corruption at play

October 30, 2025

Ang highlights how much was “remitted” to the government—masking the fact that the public is being squeezed to fund both government collection and private profit.

IBON launches new book on scaling agroecology

October 18, 2025

Research group IBON launched its newest publication, “Barriers and Pathways: Scaling Agroecology to Address Climate Change – The Philippine Case,” at the National Agroecology Workshop held Saturday at the University of the Philippines Diliman. The research findings discussed in the book were presented by IBON Research Head Rosario Guzman, who underscored that agroecology offers a transformative path […]