The militant Partido Manggagawa (PM) called
for a stop to the RevGov proposal in nationwide rallies commemorating Bonifacio
Day. “Bonifaco led a real revolution to gain democracy for the Filipino masses.
Duterte’s RevGov is instead a coup d’etat to install a dictatorship over the
people,” asserted Rene Magtubo, PM national chair.
PM joined the group Kalipunan ng
Kilusang Masa in a several-thousand strong march from Espana to Mendiola this morning.
PM and allied organizations also mobilized in Cebu, Davao and Bacolod.
Bonifacio Day was a litmus test for
RevGov as anti and pro groups had separate for rallies today.
“We call on workers not to join any
RevGov events. The first to be sacrificed in a RevGov-cum-dictatorship are the
freedoms and rights of workers. Workers need political and civil liberties to
advance their fight against capitalist exploitation and state abuses,”
explained Magtubo.
Kalipunan assembled at Ramon Magsaysay
High School along Espana by 8:00 am before marching by 9:00 am to Mendiola. In
Cebu, the broad coalition Cebu Citizens Assembly marched at downtown Colon St.
in the morning. Workers and urban poor led by PM and Sentro assembled at
Orcullo Park in Davao, marched around the city and then returned to the park
for a program. In Bacolod, sugar workers converged on the city for a rally at
downtown.
Magtubo added that “RevGov seeks to
capitalize on people’s discontent on the brutal failings of the EDSA democracy.
But the alternative to the democracy of the trapos is not a return to a dictatorship
of one man but forward to a democracy of the masses that was the agenda of
Bonifacio’s revolution. A revolution from the top by a dictator is a fake. The
real revolution is a the result of a movement of the masses.”
He added that the Bonifacio Day rallies
against RevGov is just the opening salvo and the campaign will escalate towards
the commemoration of International Human Rights Day on December 10. More events
and mobilizations are slated in the run-up to the remembrance of human rights
day. ###
November 30, 2017
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