This Week on People’s History: Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward
This Week, Bulatlat looks back on Mao Tse Tung's Great Leap Forward
This Week on People’s History: Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward
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Miseducated and disinformed
Miseducated and disinformed
The problematic — and for many Filipinos, depressingly predictable — results of the May 13 senatorial elections have provoked the usual mini-debate on whether the mass of the electorate is really so stupid as to vote against their own interests. They have after all...
Information disorder
Information disorder
UNLESS there was widespread cheating and fraud on May 13, the Philippine electorate has apparently elected to the Senate enough Duterte candidates for that body to be fully under administration control. Former Duterte Special Assistant Christopher “Bong” Go, former...
Lawyers and lawlessness
Lawyers and lawlessness
The Philippines is one of the world’s most lawless countries. But it’s not because it has too few laws or none at all, but because it has too many that are often interpreted in favor of the powerful so as to bring about the exact opposite of their intention, are...
Continuing questions on automated elections
Continuing questions on automated elections
The proclamation by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of the winners in the senatorial and partylist elections held on May 13 may have been generally accepted by the public. However, many questions persist on the conduct of the electoral campaign (massive vote...
Militant partylist bloc retains niche in House
Militant partylist bloc retains niche in House
As I write this piece, the Comelec has yet to complete the canvassing and announce the official results of the senatorial and partylist elections in the May 13 midterm elections. Many protests and questions have been raised over the malfunctioning of vote-counting...
Two crucial stakes in May 13 elections
Two crucial stakes in May 13 elections
Political pundits generally view the mid-term national (legislative) and local (executive-legislative) elections on Monday, May 13, as a referendum on the performance of the Duterte administration in the first half of its six-year term. More than that, however, the...
A second look at the top 10 party-list groups
A second look at the top 10 party-list groups
Four of the top 10 partylist groups are linked to Duterte and his allies. Some of them also spent millions for ads, which means they either have huge funds or are funded by big business.
Why ending ‘endo’ remains as Duterte’s unmet campaign promise
Why ending ‘endo’ remains as Duterte’s unmet campaign promise
The Congress-approved Senate version does not prohibit fixed-term and multi-layered contracting as demanded by workers. Its provision on penalties and fines on employers and agencies engaged in illegal labor-only contracting is weak.
Move on? Move forward instead for clean elections, watchdogs say
Move on? Move forward instead for clean elections, watchdogs say
On top of coercive activities of the police and military forcing the people not to vote for the opposition and the progressives, on top of humongous campaign ads of administration bets, the automated election system itself can and may have been used to spew vote “results” in favor of the administration bets, particularly at the national level.
SC issues protection order for rights defenders
SC issues protection order for rights defenders
"We reiterate that activism and the full exercise of our civil and political rights is not a crime. While we continue with our everyday human rights work, we are also resolute in our commitment to see this through."
Global Day of Action seeks freedom of jailed unionist Maoj Maga
Global Day of Action seeks freedom of jailed unionist Maoj Maga
Maoj Maga, 39, has been put through misery in several congested prisons as well as a quarantine-isolation cell when he has not committed any crime.
Advocates slam fast tracking of 2 ‘anti-children’ bills
Advocates slam fast tracking of 2 ‘anti-children’ bills
“We are very much enraged! The Duterte government has been consistently violating children’s rights from poverty, neglect of social services, ‘Oplan Tokhang’ to incarceration of children in conflict with the law and now they are militarizing schools and teaching children and youth to be blind followers.”
Pagtingin sa wika
Pagtingin sa wika
Ang sariling wika ay bahagi ng kultura at instrumento ng pagkakaisa. Ang pagpapaunlad ng sariling wika ay magreresulta sa pagpapalaya hindi lang ng bayan kundi ng kaisipan.
800,000 rights abuses recorded in 2 years of Martial Law in Mindanao — rights group
800,000 rights abuses recorded in 2 years of Martial Law in Mindanao — rights group
Since May 23, 2017, when the entire island was placed under martial law, 93 activists have been killed while 136 have escaped death. More than 1,400 others were arrested and detained. Karapatan revealed there are 815,734 victims of civil and political rights violations.
Media group, workers call for justice for victims of Ampatuan Massacre
Media group, workers call for justice for victims of Ampatuan Massacre
"It is our way of keeping the fight for justice alive, as well as condemning all violations of human rights. And hopefully, before all our candles run out, justice would be given to all victims.”
Analysts hope for an independent Senate
Analysts hope for an independent Senate
“Issues such as China deals, drug war, war against the revolutionary movement, corruption etc. will not go away and these will be the considerations of administration candidates, except for those who are rabid supporters or are unthinking.”
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