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Transport strike paralyzes Central Luzon
TRANSPORTATION was paralyzed in four provinces and five cities in Central Luzon when 110,000 jeepney and tricycle drivers led by the Pinag-isang Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide successfully launched a transport strike on November 8 to demand the scrapping of the Oil Deregulation Law.
Ninety percent of jeepneys and tricycles did not ply their routes in Pampanga, especially in Angeles City and San Fernando. Meanwhile, 98% of transportation was paralyzed in San Jose City in Nueva Ecija, and San Ildefonso and Malolos in Bulacan. In Tarlac City and 17 towns of the province, 90% of the 2,000 jeepneys and minibuses did not ply their routes.
ILPS holds second assembly
THE INTERNATIONAL League of Peoples� Struggle (ILPS) successfully held its second international assembly from November 11 to 13 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It was attended by 240 delegates representing 136 organizations from 33 countries.
Lively and open discussions and debates took place regarding the assembly�s forthcoming General Declaration. The declaration was passed without objection, and the assembly unanimously agreed that a higher level of unity was achieved through debate.
CPP pays tribute to Arafat
THE COMMUNIST Party of the Philippines (CPP) offered its condolences to the Palestinian people with the passing of Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) chair and president of Palestine.
Party spokesperson Gregorio �Ka Roger� Rosal said that for four decades, Arafat worked hard to unite the people of Palestine under the PLO, participated in their guerrilla war, represented and defended the aspirations of the Palestinians in the field of international diplomacy, and served as a symbol and inspiration of the Palestinian people�s militant struggle to liberate themselves from US and Israeli occupation and oppression.
With the escalation of their struggle, Ka Roger continued, the Palestinian people will draw inspiration from Arafat and the memory of thousands of Palestinian martyrs who valiantly fought to achieve their dream of liberating their homeland.
Arafat died on November 11 in a hospital in Paris, France at the age of 75.
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