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Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle. The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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βBAGUIO NEVER DISAPPOINTSβ
LOOK: Here are some photos from Igorot Park in Baguio City, where thousands of students converged following a successful walkout on Friday, Nov. 13, to join the growing opposition to the Pax Silica initiative, which critics fear could displace Indigenous Peoples (IP) communities and threaten natural resources, as well as the scheduled visit of US President Donald Trump to the Philippines for the 49th ASEAN Summit next week. | πΈ: Kabataan Partylist Cordillera via @AdrianINQ
No to reactivation of BNPP βοΈ
No to nuclear energy βοΈ
I guess that shpuld be the message.
PH ENERGY ROAD MAP: A NUCLEAR-FREE PH
LOOK: Coalition leaders gather at a press conference in Quezon City, on November 12, to launch the "Philippine Energy Road Map: A Nuclear-Free Philippines," a campaign demanding a publicly written alternative to the government's plans to sell and restart the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
Organizations including the Nuclear Free Bataan Movement (NFBM) and KILUSAN criticized the government's nuclear push as a "fire sale dressed up as progress," following news of potential US financing for private nuclear developers, a US-funded feasibility study for small modular reactors, and an unreleased South Korean study claiming the mothballed Bataan plant is viable. | π·: NiΓ±o Jesus Orbeta, Philippine Daily Inquirer
ALT Coalition leaders gather at a press conference in Quezon City, on November 12, to launch the "Philippine Energy Road Map: A Nuclear-Free Philippines," a campaign demanding a publicly written alternative to the government's plans to sell and restart the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
ALT Coalition leaders gather at a press conference in Quezon City, on November 12, to launch the "Philippine Energy Road Map: A Nuclear-Free Philippines," a campaign demanding a publicly written alternative to the government's plans to sell and restart the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
ALT Coalition leaders gather at a press conference in Quezon City, on November 12, to launch the "Philippine Energy Road Map: A Nuclear-Free Philippines," a campaign demanding a publicly written alternative to the government's plans to sell and restart the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
ALT Coalition leaders gather at a press conference in Quezon City, on November 12, to launch the "Philippine Energy Road Map: A Nuclear-Free Philippines," a campaign demanding a publicly written alternative to the government's plans to sell and restart the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
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If you think Pax Silica will make us become a serious player in the semiconductor industry then you must be hallucinating. Becoming just an adjunct of the imperialist nations in this industry will not make PH any better. Your ad hominem won't make you any smarter than you think.
In the semiconductor industry itself, for over 50 years our "manufacturing industry" only consists of assembly and packaging of chips fabricated or manufactured elsewhere. No technology transfer were ever done. What makes Pax Silica any different?
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Maybe you need to rethink what socialism actually is. You must be confused.
The Philippine Left needs to rethink development. Our socialist imagination remains tied to 20th-century models: centralized planning, rapid industrialization, and expanding productive forces to rival capitalist powers. We still imagine competing with capitalism on its own terms.
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IBON Executive Director on the presidentβs call for patience amid his ASEAN Summit inconveniences
#BuildFilipino #ASEAN2026PH
Philippines, kailan kaya?
Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka formally submitted his resignation to the countryβs national assembly Thursday, setting in motion a constitutional process to elect a successor to serve out the term ending in 2029 bloomberg.com/news/articles/β¦
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Long before your China-scare hallucinations, the left has been doing that kind of campaigning already. Take a good long sleep so you'd flush away this hallucination of yours in your system.
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With all the hype, the Pax Silica is just a massive assembly and packaging plant for chips manufactured somewhere. In the end Philippines will get crumbs while the foreign capitalists will reap billions of profit.
The Philippines has not benefited or developed from over 50 years of a semiconductor industry in the country. How will this be any different under Pax Silica?
#ASEAN2026
Web: ibon.org/en/over-50-years-ofβ¦
"Pax Silica will have a refining plant" as if this refining plant somehow will be turned over to us to manage and run. No. They will not even teach us to operate it. Pax Silica will only use our location, our resources, our cheap labor for these foreign capitalists to profit.
Moron. Pax Silica will have a refining plant. We currently sell raw nickel ores to china for a very low price. Refining it domestically will give us more leverage and higher selling price.
China already have control over the refining plants in Indonesia, the no. 1 nickel miner.
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I thought you guys said Makabayan is a spent force already? So why would it matter to you if Makabayan will not support Risa or Bam?
Hereβs the thing. The Makabayan bloc will not support Risa Hontiveros. The business groups will support somebody friendly and generic rather than an unknown quantity and a disruptor like Risa. Bam Aquino can get those two groups that will be elusive to Risa.
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In summary, the Philippines' problem is inperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism. These are the root causes of poverty, subservience to foreign monopoly-capitalist interests and economic backwardness.
The Philippines' problem isn't simply that it's aligned with America. It's decades of weak institutions, entrenched political dynasties, landlord interests, and failed industrial policy.
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As has been repeated over and over, Pax Silica won't industrialized us. It will only use (and abuse) our resources in exhange for mere scrubs. Wala ngang technology transfer so yung "moving up the value chain" na sinasabi ay pautot lang.
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What's funny, and actually lamentable, is your subservience to foreign domination and how you think we can't get away with it. If you want to be a slave forever just do it yourself, spare us from your colonial and slave mentality.
Industrializing for the sake of "moving higher in the global value chain" is basically a wrong goal. We industrialize for the purpose of utilizing our own resources for our own consumption and development, not to race with other industrial countries for profit.
