Justice for the victims of Payatas!

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

The Party and all revolutionary forces join the demand for justice of the residents of Payatas, Quezon City. Officials of the reactionary government should be made liable for the deaths of more than 300 urban poor residents by an avalanche of mud and garbage on July 10.

These officials have committed a major crime for allowing the dumping of garbage in the Payatas Dumpsite without considering the danger posed on the residents� houses. Desperate to escape responsibility, they stopped the operations of the dumpsite, cutting off the Payatas residents from their source of livelihood.

The problem of decent housing and unemployment of the urban poor residents of Payatas are born out of the reactionary government�s economic policies in general, and its policy on housing in particular, both of which principally serve the interests of foreign and local big capitalists, including housing and real estate developers.

Thus, the Payatas victims can achieve genuine justice only by overthrowing the present ruling system through revolutionary struggle and building a new democratic government that shall genuinely uphold the interests of the oppressed.

July 2000
English Edition

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