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Counting laws, missing the point: Who deserves the Senate?

Mayo 12, 2025

While prior experience in the Senate might seem important for lawmakers to have, it is also important to see what stand they have taken on certain government practices.

Supporting democracy amid undemocratic PH elections

Mayo 12, 2025

The vote is to show that we believe in something better.

Falling employment, higher underemployment signs of unsolved PH jobs crisis-IBON

Mayo 8, 2025

The rise in underemployment reflects the unresolved jobs crisis where existing jobs pay poorly.

Groups serve ‘disconnection notice’ to Villar’s Prime Water, urge zero votes for Camille Villar

Mayo 6, 2025

NEWS

The groups vowed to continue opposing government’s pro-oligarchs stance and advocate for alternative measures that promote people’s control over people’s resources.

Escalating US militarism in PH: Are we drilling for war?

Mayo 2, 2025

FEATURES

Despite its claims of seeking peace and protecting Philippine sovereignty against China’s self-assertion, the US reveals its true intentions by preparing for wars in pursuit of its interests.

America First, Philippines Last: The art of the bad deal

Abril 29, 2025

COMMENTARY

It is baffling how the Philippine government can so badly misread the US’s unambiguous “America First” statements and actions as signaling an interest in Philippine development.

When the urban poor say no

Abril 22, 2025

Urban poor communities are being demolished to make way for business establishments promising job opportunites. But this is meaningless if they are relocated far from where these jobs are.

While the Trump administration represents a rupture from neoliberal globalization, its protectionist stance reflects a deeper continuity. Trump is not repudiating neoliberalism but rather accelerating and concentrating it.

Who will stand with the poor?

Abril 19, 2025