Trade Union Solidarity with the Philippines

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Comment by Ira M Wechsler on December 5, 2010 at 1:13

I gather Andy is associated with the RCP ( so-called Revolutionary Communist Party ) in the USA which still is strictly Maoist and irrelevant with their support of "revolutionary nationalism". I Their latest and greatest project is their support for the Nepalese Maoists . Their is no dialectical analysis of what ran the international communist movement aground. it can't just be blamed as the work of revisionists hiding in the closets who hijacked great revolutions. There has to be some serious intellectual approach to understanding the origins of these disasters to put them in a perspective so that we can learn from the both the positives and negatives of past communist leadership. The R.C.P. is a group involved in hero worship and Bob Avakian , their Great Leader, has nothing to offer his members other than empty charisma. What else is new?

Comment by peter waterman on December 4, 2010 at 15:34

Glad to hear of the principled position of your network, Trish.

Comment by Trish Lavelle on December 4, 2010 at 12:00

The Philippines has a great array of worker and working class organisations who have various different idealogical affiliations. This group does not seek to ally itself to any particular grouping but to support the many excellent grassroots campaigns and help defend trade union rights and publicise the many trade union violations in the Philippines. But nor should this group and its members make assumptions or be dismissive about other group members' percieved affiliations. There has to be room in this group for a broad range of views to provide a strong coalition of support for our Philippines comrades.

Comment by peter waterman on December 4, 2010 at 10:26

I note that the symbol Andynorthstarwa uses to represent himself is of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin (from a Soviet Stalin-era poster), which makes comprehensible his promotion of Jose Maria Sison (leader of the self-isolated, Maoist and Militarist Communist Party of the Philippines) to the status of...umm...Great Leader Number Five? Or Six if we include Mao.

In so far as this page is intended for solidarity with the Philippines, and therefore with unions and workers there (presumably regardless of affiliation), I would have thought that the championing of this figure here was not simply irrelevant but even counter-productive.

Comment by Andynorthstarwa on December 4, 2010 at 5:38

I read some where of the Great leader of the Filipino peoples Jose Maria Sisson, Has there been any attempt to forge a united front of all worker organisation's both in the Philippines and internationally with the movement this hero of class struggle established.?

Comment by SIGTUR on November 17, 2010 at 0:38

Nov. 16, 2010 marks the 6th anniversary of the infamous Hacienda Luisita massacre in which at least seven farm workers were shot dead in an attempt to disperse their strike in 2004. This year, we commemorate the massacre under a regime whose family owns the more than 6,000-hectare of sugar estate.

Full Story: http://www.sigtur.com

Comment by Ira M Wechsler on October 25, 2010 at 0:31

The blood of worker's is NOT cheap. Some day our class will hold these capitalist assassins responsible for there murders of millions of our brothers and sisters. Their justice will be swift and terminal.

Comment by SIGTUR on October 24, 2010 at 23:21

KMU leader Vincent "Bebot" Borja freed from jail, proven innocent after 3 years

Vincent “Ka Bebot Borja”, KMU National Council member representing Eastern Visayas, and also Anakpawis coordinator for that region when he was arrested three years ago, was freed from jail after the military’s lone “star witness” did not recognize him in a hearing on Wednesday (Oct. 13).

FULL STORY

Comment by Pat Styles on October 10, 2010 at 20:57

Great to see the links with the comrades in the Philippines are as strong as ever!

Comment by SIGTUR on October 7, 2010 at 10:34

Stop the killings: Demand Justice sign online petition Labour Leader Edward Panganiban Killed In Philippines http://bit.ly/90XJw1

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