By MARYA SALAMAT
The janitors credit their reinstatement to the workers’ unity and determined struggle.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Last Friday, USS Hawaii, a Virginia class submarine, docked at Subic Bay in what the US embassy in Manila described as another “routine port call and goodwill visit”. It followed the USS Frank Cable, the 'warship that fixes warships,' which docked in Subic since September 3.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Not only is the Aquino government refusing to approve a significant wage hike, it is also implementing new policies that further press down workers’ wages.” – KMU
By MARYA SALAMAT
Progressive groups are criticizing the Independent Oil Price Review Committee for limiting itself to ‘surface data’ and refusing to delve deeper into the supply contracts and inventories of oil companies; for starting from the assumption that the Oil Deregulation Law is for the people’s benefit; and for relying on data ‘voluntarily supplied’ by oil companies.
Sidebar:Probe on findings of Independent Oil Price Review Committee urged
By MARYA SALAMAT
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, family, friends, comrades, and journalists remembered the life and works of a great journalist and revolutionary martyr, Antonio Zumel. Death may have stopped Antumel from continuing with his work in the service of the Filipino people, but his life continues to inspire.
Read also: Saluting a great revolutionary, writer and editor Antonio Zumel
Read also: Antonio Zumel @ 80, He never wrote 30 What Manong means to us By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – What prompts a person to leave the tried-and-tested comfort of being in the herd, and become a revolutionary and a hero? The Philippines has had its...
By MARYA SALAMAT
In recognition of its consistent record in fighting for the people’s welfare against incessant oil price hikes, the Oil Deregulation Law, and the VAT on oil products, the Comelec approved the application for accreditation of transport group Piston as a partylist group.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Any step taken by the capitalist to take away the past victories of Philsteel workers’ continuing struggle is a blow on the entire labor movement of Southern Tagalog.”
By MARYA SALAMAT
Steven Hildreth, a missile-defense expert with the Congressional Research Service, an advisory arm of US Congress, was quoted as saying that the U.S. is "laying the foundations" for a region-wide missile defense system that would combine U.S. ballistic missile defenses with those of regional powers, particularly Japan, South Korea and Australia.
'Scourges' such as mining, military aggression slammed at Int'l Day of Indigenous Peoples (Photos by Gregorio "Jhun" Dantes / bulatlat.com)
By MARYA SALAMAT
Philex has reportedly been filling its tailings ponds to way over its capacity, doing only “mitigating measures” against likely spills, and ignoring the pond’s ending lifespan.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The accused and powerful personalities backing them have used political influence, legal wrangling, and even veiled threats to elude justice.
By MARYA SALAMAT
"The lack of disaster preparedness, wanton logging and mining activities, dam owners’ greed, failure to de-silt Laguna Bay and other waterways, and unplanned urban development – these are the main reasons for the heavy flooding,” – KMU
Monsoon blues (Photos by Ace R. Moradante and Medel V. Hernani / davaotoday.com)
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The labor department itself has maneuvered to deceive workers with a supposed wage hike whose determination the capitalists hold now even more firmly in their hands.” – PAMANTIK–KMU
2nd part: In Calabarzon, workers get first taste of wage cuts via two-tier wage system
Sidebar: Latest poverty measure: excluding the poor from the poverty count
2nd of two, series on two-tier wage 1st of two, series on two-tier wage: From wage freeze to wage cuts: Aquino government pilots two-tier wage system Sidebar: Latest poverty measure: excluding the poor from the poverty count By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Calamba,...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“For humanitarian consideration, it is appropriate that the government restrain all price hikes at this point.” -- Anakpawis
By MARYA SALAMAT
‘This recent dam failure in Padcal proves that large-scale mining operations clearly contribute to the increased vulnerability of communities to disasters.” – Kalikasan Partylist
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Green groups, local businesses and officials hailed the Writ of Kalikasan issued by the Supreme Court this week against the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Subic,Zambales. The SC en banc released a resolution dated...
By MARYA SALAMAT
When President Aquino sought US support for joining the Trans Pacific Partnership during his US visit, the US Ambassador to the Philippines Harry K. Thomas Jr. declared…“[we] have to change laws, issue executive orders and frankly, introduce amendments to the Constitution.”
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