Upper middle income country, what?Ordinary Filipinos raised their eyebrows upon hearing the announcement that the Philippines has been classified as an upper middle income country. According to the World Bank, the rating was based on the country’s gross national income (GNI). An upper middle income country has to reach GNI per capita of between $4,496 and $13,935. In 2024, the Philippines GNI per capita stood at $4,470. What does this really mean? Economists describe GNI as encompassing the total income earned by a nation’s people and businesses, including earnings from foreign investments and economic aid. In other words, GNI does not measure poverty. If at all, it is an indication of the worsening inequality in the Philippines.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/03/upper-middle-income-country-what/Let’s Rise Up, Fight, and Win Against Imperialism and Its War Machine NATO! — Joint Statement (DKP/Birlik, DKP/BÖG, MKP, MLKP, TKEP/L, TKP-ML)NATO is the counter-revolutionary war machine of the imperialist capitalist order. It was an enemy of the people yesterday, and it continues to play the same role today. NATO is the center of terrorism in the camp led by US imperialism. It continues to turn the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Europe into a bloodbath in line with the interests of imperialist monopolies. It wages genocidal wars against resistance centers in every corner of the world. The genocidal war waged by Zionist Israel in Palestine/Gaza and Lebanon since October 7, 2023, is fueled by NATO. All NATO components, including Turkey, are accomplices in the genocide perpetrated by Israel. The Turkish bourgeoisie, under the helm of the AKP-MHP, has also become complicit in the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon through its trade with Israel. To wage a revolutionary struggle against NATO means to wage a struggle against the presence of imperialism in Turkey, Kurdistan, and the Middle East.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/34772/J. V. Stalin: Marxism and the National Question III. PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTIONA nation has the right freely to determine its own destiny. It has the right to arrange its life as it sees fit, without,
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