#AbolishConfidentialFunds The speed by which the budgets of the Office of the President and Office of the Vice President were passed points to a grotesque kind of fiscal impunity aimed at avoiding any meaningful public scrutiny of confidential and intelligence funds. What is happening in Congress now makes us even Read more…
‘Biggest illegal pasaload’: Bayan hits Marcos Jr for funding Sara Duterte’s confidential and intelligence allocation in 2022 Bagong Alyansang Makabayan said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s transfer of funds into the Office of Vice President Sara Duterte in 2022 is highly suspicious and should be immediately probed. Meanwhile, Duterte needs to Read more…
Bayan to Marcos: Stop militarizing civilian functions in the name of national security There is a dangerous trend in the Marcos Jr. regime where every social concern is framed as a national security issue and where military influence is expanding without limits. The so-called whole of nation approach to national Read more…
Statement on the CBCP Public Affairs Commission engagement with the NTF-ELCAC The CBCP is reminded of the limits of any engagement with the so-called NTF ELCAC. While we believe that the CBCP has by and large stood for basic human rights especially against red-tagging and extrajudicial killings, joining the NTF Read more…
Without oversight and transparency, confidential funds should be abolished Without any meaningful congressional oversight and transparency, it is high time the anomalous “confidential funds” be abolished. Yesterday’s budget hearing at the House of Representatives shows the basic defect of these lump-sum appropriations. They are never open to scrutiny. There is Read more…
Bayan on budget bill: Same old corrupt governance under Marcos Jr presidency Bagong Alyansang Makabayan said the budget bill submitted by the government of Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr reflects the alarming continuation and expansion of pork barrel programs disguised as confidential and intelligence funds (CIF). It is proof that the Read more…
Message of BAYAN Chair Emeritus, Carol Pagaduan-Araullo at the Tribute for Prof. Raul Segovia + (23 January 1933 – 19 August 2023) On behalf of the allied organizations of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN), I express deep sympathies to Manang Lorna and all the Segovia children, in-laws and grandchildren as well Read more…
National Security Policy 2023: Ambitious, Deceptive and Repressive Renato M. Reyes, Jr. President, BAYAN Like its predecessors, the current Philippine National Security Policy is intended to promote the core interests of the ruling elite and preserve the oppressive status quo, while outlining how the State plans to address threats to Read more…
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan denounced the Chinese coast guard for its use of water cannons to block Philippine ships from carrying out a resupply mission in Ayungin Shoal. Despite the court arbitral ruling recognizing the sovereign rights of the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea, China has consistently rejected this by Read more…
The President in his SONA said that a “Bagong Pilipinas” has arrived (dumating na). However, as with his father’s Bagong Lipunan, sorely lacking or absent in his vision for a Bagong Pilipinas is the issue of human rights. For the second year in a row, he failed to address this Read more…