Tag: Marcos administration
Selective, self-serving
Setyembre 12, 2025
The Marcos Jr’s administration seeming crackdown on corruption is not real if it is selective.
Slowest inflation, but prices higher than during peak inflation under Marcos
Agosto 19, 2025
NEWS ANALYSIS
The less-than-1% inflation indicates slower price hikes but does not mean that prices in general went down.
On the fifth year of the Anti-Terrorism Law
Hulyo 3, 2025
On US bombing of Iran
Hunyo 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
Hunyo 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
Hunyo 14, 2025
Half-million drop in manufacturing: Jobs crisis highlights urgency of Filipino industrialization – IBON
Hunyo 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
Hunyo 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.
