Regular check ups, particularly those related to reproductive health, are not covered by the free services provided by village health centers, as per the Philippine law on universal health care. Fabella wishes that the government can allocate more funds for the basic services but this has not improved over the years.
Contribution to the Forum on the Global and Financial Crisis on 30 January 2009 at De Balie, Amsterdam It is of utmost importance for the working class and the rest of the people exploited by the system of monopoly capitalism to discuss and clarify to themselves what they can and must do about the current…
BY JOSE MARIA SISON International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) actively supports the general strike to be mounted in France starting January 29 by private and public sector workers, including those from schools, hospitals, national TV and radio, and the postal services; train-drivers,…
Indeed, neoliberalism supplanted Keynesianism which advocated active government intervention through public works projects and fiscal and monetary policies to ensure economic stability and growth. The impression created is that government thereafter stood aside disinterestedly while market forces operated freely. Thus, even when “neoliberal globalization” started wreaking greater havoc on weak economies rather than globalize progress…
While the treaty’s sponsors, Senators Miriam Santiago and Mar Roxas, still have a lot to explain to their colleagues about the economic implications of the JPEPA – not to mention the still unresolved issues of toxic waste dumping and dubious gains for Filipino nurses and health workers – it seems that the issue of constitutionality…
As the US falls into recession, the rest of the global economy is being sucked downwards with it. The collapse of credit instruments originating in the U.S. is also weakening the financial balance sheets of banks and other overseas holders of these investments, affecting not just the banking sector but also stock markets abroad. Banks…
BY IBON FOUNDATION* INTERNATIONAL The deep problems of the imperialist-dominated world capitalist system are in very sharp focus today. The majority of humanity has long suffered unremitting poverty and exploitation – but the people are being pushed into even greater difficulties by the current episode of intense economic and financial crisis which is feared to…
‘Not without a fight’ seems to be the motto of many militant unions against efforts to bust their unions; they basically always put up a fight for wages, jobs and rights. BY MARYA SALAMAT LABOR WATCH Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 12, April 27-May 3, 2008 In the busy street of Marcos Alvarez in…
The World Bank, in its recently-released “Governance Matters 2006” report, gave the country a lower ranking in its control of corruption benchmark, falling from 50.5% in 1998 to 37.4% in 2005. BY IBON FOUNDATION Bulatlat.com The World Bank, in its recently-released “Governance Matters 2006” report, gave the country a lower ranking in its control of…