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Piston demands an end to US-Israel aggression in Iran, warns of oil price catastrophe and OFW crisis
Transport group Piston vehemently condemns the US-Israeli military attacks on Iran, warning that the escalating conflict threatens to unleash severe economic devastation on Philippine transport workers and millions of OFW-dependent families. The attacks, codenamed “Operation Epic Fury” by the Trump administration and “Lion’s Roar” by the Netanyahu regime, have already killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah
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US imperialist hands off Venezuela! End the plunder of global oil resources — PISTON
PISTON condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent military aggression and illegal seizure of power by the United States government, led by Donald Trump, in Venezuela. We stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan working class in resisting this naked display of imperialist banditry led by the US imperialist regime. The US government’s mask has
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Piston member arrested in Leyte on fabricated charges
PISTON strongly condemns the arrest and the filing of fabricated cases against our member Felixberto “Felix” Consad. He was arrested on August 14 at his home in Sogod, Southern Leyte while caring for his grandchild. Felix has been an active PISTON member since 2013 and was forced to relocate to Leyte in 2018 because of
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Oil Price Shock: Market manipulation, not Middle East conflict, to blame — Piston
Piston strongly condemns the looming P5 per liter big-time oil price increase. The real culprit behind the relentless price shocks are market speculation and profiteering, not the Israel-Iran conflict as so often claimed. The truth is, global oil prices are being manipulated by traders and oil giants who exploit every hint of geopolitical tension to
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Philippine Independence Day: A nation still in the passenger seat of US Imperialism
This June 12, as the Philippines commemorates its Independence Day from centuries of colonial control, we must confront a bitter reality: the country may have formally declared independence in 1898 and 1946, but political, economic, and military control by foreign powers, especially by the United States, never truly let go of the wheel. The legacy