Editorial:
Workers, lead the struggle to thoroughly isolate the Macapagal-Arroyo regime!

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

In the face of the worsening social crisis and suffering of the people due to the Macapagal-Arroyo regime's unparalleled puppetry and militarism, the broad masses of the people are crying ever louder for the ouster of the ruling reactionary regime. This is its just deserts for trampling on national sovereignty, its all-out auction of the national patrimony, its denial of the just demands of workers, peasants and other oppressed sectors and the imposition of severe repression especially in the countryside.

Due to their intense oppression and suffering, the people are gathering a powerful storm of protest against the puppet, corrupt and suppressive Macapagal-Arroyo regime. It is a tempest that comprises the broad democratic and patriotic forces. It draws in more and more forces and individuals, resulting in the isolation of the ruling regime in stages.

To resist and thoroughly isolate the Macapagal-Arroyo regime and frustrate its ambition to prolong itself in power, the broadest unity of the Filipino people must be built. It is the working class duty to lead in this endeavor.

Like the broad and militant stand taken by the Filipino worker masses against US colonialism in the first part of the 1900s, Filipino workers must now take action in their numbers to thwart US plans to launch a bigger war in the Philippines. It is necessary to assiduously monitor, assail, oppose and put a stop to every interventionist move by US imperialism in connivance with the puppet regime, and tirelessly resist its plans to broaden armed aggression in the country.

The working class must lead in exposing and resisting the conspiracy between Bush and Macapagal-Arroyo to make the revolutionary movement and the struggling people targets of joint operations of American troops and the AFP. Nonetheless, the Filipino proletariat must take the lead in launching a war of national liberation to eject American occupation troops.

It is necessary for workers to exert all efforts to resist the Macapagal-Arroyo regime because of its oppression of the worker masses. The regime is undisputedly its main class enemy as well as the enemy of the Filipino people. Its all-out advocacy of imperialist globalization is the leading cause of widespread unemployment, slave wages, inhuman working conditions, the abject living conditions of workers and their families and the systematic attacks on the rights and benefits that the labor movement had fought for, for decades.

To advance the welfare of the worker masses, there should be no letup in advancing the just struggle for a P125 wage increase and against excessive hikes in the prices of oil, electricity and water.

New laws and policies that further attack the right to job security and buttress labor-only contracting and similar exploitative and oppressive moves must also be thoroughly resisted. They must expose the intensifying repression and suppression of their rights and they must consolidate their ranks in resistance.

The severe corruption that permeates the civil and military bureaucracy and the merciless suppression of the people's just resistance must be exposed and opposed. The working class must manifest their anger at rampant bureaucratic corruption and the wallowing in luxury and privilege perpetrated by the regime in the face of the people's unprecedented poverty.

The working class must also continue to take the lead in waging collective action to roundly condemn the broad and intense suppression campaigns in the countryside and cities that victimize the peasant masses and target even forces of the open and progressive movement.

The ranks of the workers' movement comprise the biggest part of the mass movement against the Macapagal-Arroyo regime. The pouring out of throngs of people into the streets thus serves as a very important factor in decisively isolating the ruling regime. The workers must expertly use strikes and other forms of militant action to advance their interests and those of the entire people.

April 2002
English Edition

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