The youth group Anakbayan condemned the Aquino administration today as the victims of a recent fire in Tondo, Manila exposed the blaze as ‘deliberately-set’ and a ‘demolition tactic’. Last Friday’s fire, which left more than 5,000 people homeless, is supposedly to make way for another Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project: the modernization of the Manila North...

As DBM kicks off 2013 budget hearings Filipino youth guarantees Aquino of fiercer protests vs budget cuts on education and social services –Anakbayan The national youth group Anakbayan held a picket-protest in front of the Department of Budget and Management office this morning. Said organization of young workers, peasants and employees, students, out of school...

Thousands of young workers and other youths will join today’s Labor Day protests across the country, to demand that the government take action on the perennial problems of unemployment and low wages which have worsened under the current administration. “On top of the seemingly chronic problems faced by Filipino workers such as unemployment, contractualization, and...

Thousands of new graduates and other unemployed youths under the youth group Anakbayan are expected to join tomorrow’s May Day rally in Metro Manila. They however, are not expecting any meaningful pronouncements from the Aquino administration, despite the latter’s claim of a ‘Labor Day Surprise’ for workers. Anakbayan is demanding that the government address the...