Anakbayan CIT-U, Natalio Bacalso Avenue, Labangon (2026)

26/11/2025

𝟒 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐎.

This Bonifacio Day, we continue the call for accountability and justice in a system that has long deprived the people of accessible, quality education.

Across the country, universities suffer from deliberate underfunding, leaving classrooms overcrowded, facilities deteriorating, and learning spaces unsafe. At the same time, unregulated tuition and miscellaneous fee increases in many institutions show how education has been shaped by neoliberal policies—treated as a private commodity rather than a public right.

Both realities come from the same root: a neoliberal education system sustained by bureaucratic interests, where profit, prestige, and political capital are prioritized over the people’s welfare.

This November 30, we rise to challenge the system that feeds on exploitation and denies the youth the education they deserve.

📅 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟎
📍𝐅𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝐎𝐬𝐦𝐞ñ𝐚
⏰ 8 𝐀𝐌

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𝐒𝐔𝐆𝐁𝐔𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐀𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐍-𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐍, 𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐘𝐎𝐍 𝐍𝐈 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐎! 𝐌𝐔𝐊𝐀𝐁-𝐎𝐓 𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐀 𝐒𝐀 𝐏𝐀𝐆𝐌𝐔𝐆𝐍𝐀 𝐔𝐆 𝐁𝐀𝐆-𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐀𝐍!

26/03/2024

🕺ARE YOU READY TO CHA CHA?💃

A political crisis has been brewing among the ranks of public officials in the Philippine government. This is what is called Charter Change or “Cha-Cha”😟😟

This has been fueling conflicts between the upper and lower houses of the Congress, as well as a groundswell of public clamor from civil society. The main point of contention — in the face of all the pressing problems of our country, why is the push for Cha-Cha becoming more prioritized? Whose interest exactly does this Cha-Cha serve?🤔😤

All the while, the socioeconomic crisis continues to destroy the average Filipino’s livelihood and pushes us further away from our civil rights. The Filipino’s most pressing problems, such as the continuous skyrocketing prices of basic commodities and services and the push for neoliberal policies like the PUV Modernization Program, still persist.

In the education sector, we are not safe from this crisis. In our schools, there persists misrepresentation of students and education stakeholders and the neglect of education stakeholders’ rights and welfare; increasing tuition fees, insufficient wages, and nearly abject job opportunities; and the continuous lack of student support services.

With this, Kabataan Partylist Cebu, along with allied organizations, is currently organizing a gathering entitled "Chacha Against Cha-Cha: Dance the Marcos-Duterte Regime Away!" to be held on April 1, 2024 (Monday) at 5PM-8PM. The event aims to provide an avenue for civil rights advocates to mingle, connect, and unite against Cha-Cha.

SUMAYAW AT UMAYAW SA CHACHA!

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Join the campaign against Charter Change through here: https://tinyurl.com/StandAgainstCharterChange
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See Event Page here: https://fb.me/e/434Qn3BzZ

Cebu Movement Against Tyranny and Charter Change Page: https://www.facebook.com/cebu.againstchacha

22/02/2024

THE FIGHT OF EDSA LIVES ON!
PROTEST @ FUENTE OSMEÑA, 9am - February 25

TEKNOYS REMEMBER EDSA! JOIN ANAKBAYAN CIT-U! - bit.ly/JoinABCITU

Anakbayan - CIT-U calls on the Technologian student body to remember the fight of the People Power Uprising. In the midst of great state repression, the people did not cower in fear as they poured millions into the streets in order to overthrow the fascist Marcos regime.

As early as the 70s, the Kabataang Makabayan and Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan organized in CIT-U in order to launch protests and strikes against the ruling Marcos regime which at that point had begun to show its true repressive colors. In 1983, the CIT Alliance of Concerned Technologians led boycotts in December and strikes in March which led to the Battle of CIT in March 1983 which injured many after security guards hit a student with a baton.

Anakbayan - CIT-U remembers the likes of James Orbe, Ramon Michael Doong, Arnulfo Ortiz and many more Technologians who died in the struggle as early as the 70s and 80s to pave way for the people to overthrow the Marcos fascist regime.

Many of these street barricades reached Cebu, such as those in Fuente Osmeña, Freedom Park, Carbon Market, US Consulate, Cebu Provincial Capitol, Katipunan St., and the likes.

18/02/2024

TEKNOYS AGAINST CHARTER CHANGE - OUR EDUCATION, MASS MEDIA, PUBLIC UTILITIES AND OUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE!
A Statement

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Anakbayan - CIT expresses its firmest conviction that the Charter Change is an anti-people, anti-poor and anti-nationalist move that the Marcos Jr. regime wants to make. It is not new, given that Charter Change was also pushed by former administrations. Charter change will only worsen the current system of education, land reform, mass media and public utilities and services by giving these to large imperialist corporations.

If the charter change were to be signed by the president, it is likely that by allowing foreign businesses to enter the Philippine educational system, the competition between local and foreign firms would drive tuition fees up. The students can only expect added burdens on tuition and other school fee increases from this Charter Change.

Furthermore, foreigners will be allowed to have 100% ownership over mass media, public utilities and Filipino land. The Charter Change, which instead of promoting a national economic policy, will instead promote a policy of subservience to foreign economic masters.

Finally, the President and Vice President will be voted in tandem, with two terms of five years - a president can rule the Philippines for a decade alongside other officials who can rule for longer terms.

Anakbayan - CIT-U stands against this Charter Change. We call on the Technologian student body to study, learn and criticize the changes in our constitution and advance the national-democratic struggle against the Marcos and Duterte cliques which are now infighting over political rule in the Philippines.

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16/02/2024

Save our Schools! Stop Lumad Killings!

Three years ago yesterday, the Lumad Bakwit school of USC as well as volunteer teachers were violently raided by the PNP Central Visayas (PRO 7) who were seeking sanctuary in the University of San Carlos - Talamban Campus. 26 of them were arrested.

Anakbayan - CIT expresses its strongest condemnation of the event.

The Lumad are the national minorities - indigenous peoples of Mindanao. They are also one of the most marginalized by large mining corporations and logging concessions which have destroyed and taken over their ancestral land. They have evacuated from their highly militarized communities where thousands have died under the dictatorial rule of the AFP.

The AFP, under the payroll of large mining and logging concessions, expose their role as mercenaries in protecting these big capitalists instead of serving the interests of the people.

Anakbayan - CIT stands with our Lumad brothers and sisters! Stop the Lumad Killings! Save our Schools!

16/02/2024

Condemn Militarization - in the Campus or Hinterlands!

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The Progressive Alliance of Concerned Technologians (PACT - CIT) remembers the Bakwit school raid which happened yesterday three years ago. As Technologians, we are not the last in the fight against militarization.

Ramon Michael Doong was killed by security guards in 1970 for participating in a student protest. The Alliance of Concerned Technologians held protests which were repressed by CIT-U security guards which led to the Battle of CIT in March 1984.

Lumad communities have been the victims of grave militarization throughout the years. The literacy schools of the Tribal Filipino Program of Surigao del Sur, ALCADEV, Program for Mamanwa Integrated Services for Development and the likes alongside even missionary and church groups such as the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines - NMR have been actively vilified as “NPA” schools or “illegal” schools.

Teachers being stopped at mobile checkpoints, illegally searched, questioned and harassed have become “normal” occurrences. School grounds are surrounded by armed military men, students interrogated and teachers are accused about being members of the NPA.

In July 2009, the TRIFPSS school in Surigao del Sur was closed down when residents were forced to evacuate due to the encampment of the 58th IBPA. In November 2015, the ALCADEV teachers’ cottage and its nursery was burned down to the ground by the military. In September of 2016, another school was ransacked with books, school equipment and structures damaged.

Extrajudicial killings have also been frequent throughout Lumad communities.

Our struggle against campus militarization in the 1980s and repression is not so far from the struggle of the Lumads against the militarization of their communities. The killings and terror against Lumad national minorities is a violation of human rights. PACT - CIT stands with our Lumad brothers and sisters: Save our Schools! Stop Lumad Killings!

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23/09/2023

ICYMI: Anakbayan CIT-U along with other militant groups under the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan - Central Visayas, braved the heat and the downpour of rain in the streets of Cebu on September 21, 2023 as we commemorate the 51st anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law.

Today, the US-Marcos II-Duterte administration is taking out of the Marcos Sr. playbook its old autocratic way of ruling as it abets a Marcosian leadership: 95,000 victims of human rights violations, which translates to two victims per day from June 30, 2022 to present, and if it's not the bullets that kill, it's the deplorable living conditions – low wages, mass unemployment, food insecurity, inaccessible social services. Armed with militant conviction, we vow to continue the fight towards just and lasting peace and to dismantle the old, rotting system responsible for the Filipino people's oppression and exploitation.

Some photos taken by Today's Carolinian's Genesis and Vince Nuñez

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19/09/2023

ANAKBAYAN CIT-U IS BACK! (This is a canon event)

Pero unsa jud diay ang Anakbayan?

Anakbayan Cebu Institute of Technology – University (CIT-U) is a university chapter of Anakbayan, a National Democratic comprehensive mass organization of the Filipino youth uniting the youth from the ranks of workers, farmers, students and professionals to lead in the forefront of the people's National Democratic movement, towards socialism.

Anakbayan CIT-U was established back in 2020, in recognition of the militant and historical role of the youth in forging change in a system that calls for it and become the torchbearers of truth. The founding of the organization within the university was a response to the challenge posed by the ever worsening chronic crisis within the academe and beyond its walls.

Tara na Teknoys, be the makers of history! Let's make possible the tomorrow we want, the tomorrow we deserve!

Join Anakbayan CIT-U today: bit.ly/JoinABCITU

19/09/2023

THE STUDENTS WILL COME BACK AGAIN, AND AGAIN... AND AGAIN!

In the face of crisis and unrest - high tuition and other fees increase, low wages, soaring prices of commodities and social services, fighting in the defense of their interests and the interests of the broad masses is the youth in their millions. The youth movement is sure to advance further as the crisis worsens and the conditions for change ripen.

History is witness to the youths' undefeatable power once it struggles in collective effort alongside the ranks of workers and farmers, and the broad masses of the exploited poor! Only through militant struggle can the best in youth shall emerge!

𝗧𝗲𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘆𝘀, 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘁! 𝗕𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆! 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲, 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻!

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22/07/2023

SULBARON ANG KRISIS SA KAPANGINABUHIAN, KATUNGOD, UG KAUGALINGNAN!

Unity Statement
Cebu United People’s SONA

Karong Hulyo 24, 2023 ang ikaduhang State of the Nation Address (SONA) sa administrasyong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Apan, dakong pangutana sa atoa, unsa na ba ang tinuoray nga kahimtang karon sa mga Sugboanon ilawum sa kasamtangang rehimen?

Sa kasamtangan, nagatubang og lain-lain ug nagkagrabeng krisis ang katawhang Sugboanon sa nataran sa kapanginabuhian, katungod, ug kaugalingnan. Una, anaa dira ang kawad-on sa disente ug makabuhing kapanginabuhian. Karong buwan sa Hulyo, pipila lang ka adlaw usa ang SONA ni Marcos, adunay wala nagkuwang nga 4,000 ka mga empleyado gikan sa Mactan Export Processing Zone (MEPZ) nag nawad-an og trabaho human mingbalhin sa Cambodia ang duha ka Taiwan-owned nga kompanya gikan sa Sports City tungod mas barato ang kusog-pamuo ngadto nga mo kantidad og $6.00 kumpara sa $7.00 nga ginasweldo sa mga mamumuo diri sa Sugbo. Niaging tuig lamang pag Septyembre, adunay 4,000 usab nga nawagtangan og trabaho human nagsarado ang lima ka kompanya niini sa susamang kompanya sulod sa MEPZ.

Ang kining kuyanap nga tinaktakay nahitabo atubangan sa nagkataas nga inplasyon sa Sentrong Kabisay-an, nga mo abot og halos 8.4% kumpara sa 6.1% nga nasudnong inplasyon. Mas gipagrabe pa kini pinaagi sa kuyanap nga pagpatuman sa kontraktwalisasyon nga nahimong dakong bara sa pagtagamtam sa katungod nga mag-organisa sa mga mamumuo, dugang benepisyo, ug makabuhing suholan. Buot pasabot, padayon nagkamahal ang mga presyo sa mga batakang palaliton, samtang nagatubang ang yanong Sugboanon og kakuwangan o di-istable nga panginabuhi ug ubos nga suholan, nga halos dili paigo sa mga batakang panginahanglan sa usa ka pamilyahan samtang nakatagamtam ang mga dagkong kapitalista nga nanag-iya sa maong mga negosyo og sobra-sobrang ginansya.

Sa pikas bahin, ang mga batakang serbisyo sama sa tubig ug kuryente padayong nagkamahal. Partikular sa serbisyong tubig, adunay hulga karon nga mapribatisa ang Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD) sa PrimeWater nga gipanagiyahan sa pamilyang Villar. Sa tibuok Pilipinas, adunay 160 ka Joint Venture Agreements (JVA) nga gisulod sa halos 584 ka Water Districts. Ang 124 niini kay kupot sa PrimeWater. Kun madayon ang maong hulga sa pribatisasyon, posible kini nga mo resulta sa pagpanaktak sa mga mamumuo sama sa nahitabo sa Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA), bati nga kalidad sa serbisyo sa tubig, ug taas nga balayronon. Nagpadayon usab ang pagsaka sa presyo sa kuryente sa probinsya sa Sugbo. Halos Php 22.00 per kilowatt hour ang ginabayad sa matag konsumedor sa CEBECO 1, 2, ug 3. Samtang mo kabat na og Php 16.00 per kilowatt hour ang ginabayad sa mga konsumedor sa VECO. Kini tanan mas taas pa sa ginabayad sa mga lumulupyo sa Metro Manila.

Nagkakuyanap usab ang pagpanglapas sa batakang katungod sa pamuyo pinaagi sa mga dinagkong demolisyon sa kasyudaran sa Sugbo. Pinaagi sa three meter easement nga palisiya ug development projects nga ginapatuman sa lokal nga kagamhanan sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, adunay gitanchang 12,000 hantud sa 14,000 ka mga pamilya ang apektado. Labing apektado usab ang mga lumulupyo ug mga mangingisda sa Minglanilla, dakbayan sa Mandaue, dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu, ug Cordova, gawas sa uban pang mga lugar sa Sugbo, bunga sa nagkadaghang dinagkong mga proyektong reklamasyon.

Padayon sad ang pagpangphase-out sa mga traditional public utility vehicles (PUV) bunga sa mini nga PUV Modernization Program (PUVMP) nga unang gipatuman panahon sa administrasyong Rodrigo Duterte ug gipadayon sa rehimeng Marcos Jr. Ang maong programa nag resulta lang sa giingon nga corporatization sa sektor sa transportasyon o ang pagpanag-iya sa mga dagkong korporasyon aron mamonopolyo ang mga nagdagan nga mga PUV para sa ilahang kaugalingong ginansya. Tungod niini, signipikante ang pagubos sa ihap sa mga traditional jeep nga ming resulta sa kawad-on og kapanginabuhian sa mga drayber ug gamay nga operaytor, ug padayon nga pagsaka sa plitehan.

Biktima usab ang sektor sa mga kabatan-onang estudyante sa kawalay aksyon sa administrasyong Marcos Jr. sa krisis nga ginaatubang sa mga kabatan-onan. Sa kasamtangan, sunod-sunod ang mga aplikasyon para sa tuition and other school fees increase (TOSFI) sa mga tunghaan, sama sa University of Cebu, University of San Carlos, University of San Jose - Recoletos, University of Southern Philippines Foundation, ug Cebu Institute of Technology - University–parehong mga mayor nga unibersidad sa Sugbo. Samtang pag niaging tuig, nakaltasan usab ang pondo para sa Cebu Normal University ug Cebu Technological University. Bunga niini, mas nahimong grabe ang kahimtang sa krisis sa edukasyon: ang kakuwangan sa mga pasilidad ug mga magtutudlo, lakip na ang makabuhing suholan sa mga empleyado sa mga tunghaan, ug kamahal sa balayronon sulod sa mga unibersidad.

Tataw ang pagantos sa katawhang Sugboanon karon ilawum sa administrasyong Marcos Jr. Dili lang sa pagpanghikaw sa katungod sa yanong Sugboanon nga makapanginabuhi pero apil na usab ang padayon nga sistematikong pagpahilom sa kinsa mang mosupak sa mga di-makikatawhanong palisiya sa gobyerno. Nakita kini nato sa nahitabong abduction ni Dyan Gumanao ug Armand Dayoha nga parehong mga labor rights advocates, ang padayon nga militarisasyon sa mga pabrika, komunidad, ug eskwelahan. Nagpadayon gihapon ang mga pagpamatay ilawum sa giyera kontra droga kun diin mo kabat na sa 342 ang biktima sa drug-related killings.

Kini tanan nagpamatuod lang nga ilawum sa unang tuig sa gobyernong Marcos Jr., walay signipikanteng kausaban ang nahitabo. Mas nigrabe lang ang krisis sa kapanginabuhian, katungod, ug kaugalingnan. Maong karon, dakong hagit sa katawhang Sugboanon nga maghiusa aron maduso ang pagsulbad sa maong mga krisis ginaatubang nato karon. Karong Hulyo 24, sa adlaw mismo sa State of the Nation Address, atong ipadangat ang atoang tinuoray nga kahimtang sa kadalanan. Dungan nato ipanawagan ang sumusunod:

1. Nasudnong minimum nga suholan nga nakasubay sa family living wage
2. Pagundang sa kontraktwalisasyon
3. Pagpaubos sa presyo sa batakang palaliton
4. Pampublikong serbisyo, dili negosyo
5. Aksesible ug dekalidad nga edukasyon
6. Disente ug abot-kayang pabalay
7. Pagundang sa reklamasyon
8. Pagundang sa jeepney phaseout
8. Pagrespeto sa mga demokratikong katungod

21/03/2023

ON THE OCCASION OF MYLES ALBASIN’S 27TH BIRTHDAY BEHIND BARS! STILL NO JUSTICE!

Myles Albasin. Human rights defender. Activist. Political Prisoner. The 21st of March marks Myles' 27th birthday, her fifth birthday as a political prisoner. As a UP Cebu graduate, Myles had the luxury to live a comfortable life but instead chose the road less traveled, one which would entail more sacrifices. One does not advance in comfort, that is something she religiously lives by. As a student, Myles was involved in the struggle of the marginalized peasant sector. She has the humanity to study the conditions of the farmers on the ground. Millions of farmers still do not own the land they till, while others are forced to become farm workers, living off very meager income. Haciendas and monopolization of land still dominate the agricultural landscape. Feudalism is their thousand-year curse. It is for the reasons mentioned that Myles, in her selfless act of sacrifice, chose to stay with the poorest of the poor in the countryside, and moved by great feelings of love for the marginalized masses, devoted her life to the struggle.

On March 3, 2018, Myles along with five other young activists was arrested for trumped-up charges. Claiming that there was an encounter, but residents in the area denied such an incident.

It has been five years, and there is still no justice for Myles. It has been five long years, testament to the blatant disregard of human rights and due process by the elements of the state. All these paper tigers will fold and crumble at the uproar of the masses. A woman with conviction like Myles will shake a corrupt state. No court can genuinely pass on judgment, for her and her companions’ vindication lies in their struggle for National Democracy. Myles has inspired the youth to take the struggle for our democratic rights to the picket lines, streets, mustering the support of the masses and to amplify the message of those who have something to say.

Myles, you have inspired the youth to fight and resist the chains that bind us, and each day, fissures start to form. It is paper against the collective strength of the people. On your birthday we wish for your freedom, freedom of your companions, and freedom of all toiling masses under the rabid claws of Imperialism, Feudalism, and Bureaucrat Capitalism. Until then, dugang kadasig, kauban!

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