Minimum wage worth less under Marcos, since peak under Aquino — IBON

Hunyo 24, 2024

NEWS

As the NCR wage board deliberates the petitions of various labor groups, it needs to be stressed that NCR wages are not keeping up with either inflation or worker productivity.

Stop militarizing farm communities; support green producers–IBON

Hunyo 22, 2024

The government should be held accountable for the recent attack against farmer leader Ronnie Manalo and the long-standing militarization of SJDM farming communities that undermines not just the right to till but also the right to food security.

Against all repression, Spring is coming

Hunyo 19, 2024

Undemocracy and inequality and its attendant oppression and exploitation is what spurs so much resistance.

Philippine economy so right it’s wrong

Hunyo 18, 2024

The Philippine Economic Briefing tried so hard to show that everything is right with the economy that it only succeeded in showing everything that’s so wrong with it.

Independent? How the Philippines still serves US economic interests

Hunyo 13, 2024

All the celebratory hullabaloo and hype of “hard-won independence” and being a “free country” distorts how Philippine independence is nominal without true self-determination.

Hindipendence Day: The Matrix is Real

Hunyo 13, 2024

The US imperial machine’s grip on the Philippine neocolonial mind is far more subtle and sophisticated than simple puppetry though, and hence so much more powerful.

Youth hit hardest by stagnant job creation — IBON

Hunyo 7, 2024

Recent labor force data shows that the economy is still struggling to create enough decent work – and the youth are most affected.

Extensive US overseas military bases for domination not defense – IBON

Mayo 27, 2024

The US harps about China and Russia military aggression but its vast network of overseas military bases worldwide which the US has used to launch the most offensive military operations of any country since World War II shows that its aggression is much worse.

Job-losing growth in first quarter 2024 is cause for alarm not optimism – IBON

Mayo 10, 2024

The difficulty in creating enough decent and sustainable work which leaves millions of Filipinos to survive off of meager incomes certainly cannot in any way be a source of “optimism and pride,” as the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) put it when the growth figures were released