Archive of Ang Bayan

AFP’s relentless bombings torment civilians
August 07, 2022

It was reported in July that the 79th IB, a command under the 303rd IBde, planned to drop bombs on the Minapasuk Mandalagan Mountain Range in Negros. This plan supposedly forms part of the counterinsurgency campaign against the New People’s Army (NPA). Before the planned three-day bombing, the military tried to evict residents of 21 […]

Davao Oriental mining brings disasters and dislocation
August 07, 2022

Decades upon decades of operations by Pujada Nickel Project in Banaybanay City in Davao Oriental have caused disasters and widespread dislocation. This project brings profits to the local government and agencies, and is violently defended by the military and police despite the clear ill-effects of mining in the area. Last January, the once clear waters […]

CPI (Maoist) holds Martyrs’ Week of Remembrance
August 07, 2022

The Communist Party of India (Maoist) honored and remembered the heros of the Indian revolution during its Martyrs’ Week of Remembrance last July 28 to August 3. They hailed the 124 Indian revolutionaries who died while performing their revolutionary duties the past year and their great leaders such as Charu Majumdar (who died 50 years […]

Residents oppose Romblon mining
August 07, 2022

Romblon residents and environmental groups marched in protest last July 26 to the front of the Department of Natural Resources office in Quezon City. They called for an end to the planned mining in Sibuyan Island. The residents said that mining will be detrimental to their livelihood which is dependent on the marine resources, ricefields, […]

In short
August 07, 2022
A retrospect of ancestral domain landgrabbing in Far South Mindanao
August 07, 2022

The United Nations set August 9 as the International Day of Indigenous Peoples. National minorities in the Philippines mark this day with their continuing struggle for land and rights. Among them are the Lumad in far south Mindanao who have suffered decades upon decades of attacks, most especially under Ferdinand Marcos Sr’s martial law. The […]

Davao riders, UP guards score victory
August 07, 2022

Two associations of contractual employees scored successive victories the past week. In Davao, the National Labor Relations Commission ordered Foodpanda Philippines Incorporated to pay a ₱2-million compensation package to seven delivery rider workers illegally terminated last year. Foodpanda is a food-delivery service company. The seven were part of the hundreds of Foodpanda workers who protested […]

Mga residente, kontra sa pagmina sa Romblon
August 07, 2022

SANG HULYO 26, nagmartsa ang mga residente sang Romblon kag mga grupo nga maka-kapalibutan para magprotesta sa atubang sang upisina sang Department of Environment and Natural Resources sa Quezon City. Panawagan nila nga untaton ang plano nga pagmina sa Sibuyan Island. Suno sa mga residente, apektado sang pagmina ang ila pangabuhian. Nakadepende sa manggad-dagat, duta […]

Linibo nagtambong sa rali 
kontra-SONA ni Marcos
August 07, 2022

  sSuno sa grupong Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), naglab-ot sa 8,000 katawo ang nagmartsa sang Hulyo 25 sa kahabaan sang Commonwealth Ave. sa Quezon City agud ipahayag ang tunay nga kahimtangan sang banwa kadungan sang una nga State of the Nation Address (SONA) ni Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Antes sini, wala sang basehan nga gindumilian sang […]

Nagabusong, 2 bata kag 3 mangunguma, ginpatay sang militar
August 07, 2022

Sunud-sunod ang mga kaso sang pataratas ng pagpangluthang sang mga suldado sang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sining nagligad nga mga semana. Ginapagwa sang mga suldado nga napatay ang mga biktima sa mga engkwentro kag katapu ang mga ini sang Bagong Hukbong Bayan (BHB). Napatay sa pagpangluthang sang 62nd IB ang 5-bulan nga nagabusong […]