Marcos administration
On the fifth year of the Anti-Terrorism Law
July 3, 2025
On US bombing of Iran
June 22, 2025
The US serves its hegemonic ambitions and military-industrial corporate profits at the expense of people’s rights, national sovereignty, and global peace.
Impunity and underdevelopment under Marcos Jr
June 14, 2025
When populists take power, the people become fodder for self-serving ambition, and our goals for development and human rights are, at best, afterthoughts. At worst, they’re trampled on for being inconvenient obstacles to personal wealth and power. The spectacle of political theater and intentional delay of the vice-president’s impeachment trial in the Senate confirms institutional […]
Gaining from non-alignment
June 14, 2025
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.
Limited BBM Na! Program
May 28, 2025
The Benteng Bigas Meron Na! program aims to provide Php20/kl rice to 2 million households until Dec 2025. But its scrimped budget of Php4.5 billion can only provide for not even a million households, still leaving so many behind. Related: IBON hits limited BBM Na! program
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.
