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Fight Duterte's New Martial Law! Oust the Dictatorship! OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF KABATAANG MAKABAYAN SEPTEMBER 2020 EDITORIAL FIGHT DUTERTE’S NEW MARTIAL LAW! It is through militant resolve and the masses’ OUST THE DICTATORSHIP! yearning for democracy and justice that they were have done nothing but pass the entire nation, &uterte was able to kill, able to gallantly face the state’s intensified more neoliberal policies that torture, intimidate, terrori5e, and do harassment and intimidation tactics, as people have only pushed the people damage as much as, if not way more than, from all over the country flock the streets to into unparalleled poverty! Marcos did! remember the declaration of Marcos’ martial law 1ver since the early stages of 1ven under a lockdown due to "ovid# 4 years ago today! &uterte’s reign, he $%, the &uterte regime did not miss a beat In the guise of a "ovid#$% response, has done nothing but fill his pockets and in trying to turn the country into a military &uterte e'ploited the pandemic and the those of his cohorts’! From his T*/I0 law state! (rom beefed up police and military worsening condition of the (ilipino which sucked the masses’ pockets dry presence all over the country to social people through total state abandonment and left their tables emptier than before, media surveillance and monitoring and escalated fascism! )e used the crisis his 12 3$ and &2 $44 that legitimi5ed against the youth, &uterte has appointed to further attacks against the people and contractuali5ation despite growing himself and his blood#thirsty goons as the strengthen his dictatorial rule! clamor from workers, to the *ice kings of the land! 0ow through the /nti# *odrigo &uterte’s tactics are no ,ari6cation 7aw 8*,79 that only ,error /ct, these fascist men in uniform di+erent than Marcos’ before! The people promised drastic losses and greater can only get more pompous : an omen remember how Marcos boasted of a struggle for (ilipino farmers, &uterte has for more human rights abuses and state -stellar. fiscal performance with a proved to be as Marcosian as he could terrorism in full swing! competitive peso rate and global get! 1ven at the early stage of the /,/, economic influence, while caging in and 0ow, &uterte is stepping up his game &uterte’s mercenaries were never once veiling urban poor communities to hide by playing e'actly as Marcos did : use timid about revealing the true purpose of the ever#e'acerbating economic status of absurd infrastructure or rehabilitation the new law! In a span of one week, two the (ilipino people! )is cronies continue projects, like that of Manila ;ay, in the beloved activists were tortured and killed! to gloat about the beautiful infrastructure hopes of distracting the people from <a *andy 1chanis was a 4=#year old that the days of the martial law left the demanding accountability for the peace consultant who devoted his life to country with, but never fail to neglect corruption, neglect, and fascism! 0o fighting for the democratic interests of mentioning how big of a debt the masses doubt, &uterte is swimming in the billions peasants> ?ara /lvare5 was a dedicated are burdened with now because of it! he and his allies have stolen in kickbacks! human rights activist and community In a disturbingly similar way, &uterte’s /n even more splitting image of the health worker! /nd they are just two administration continues to stress how martial law of the past is the killings and among many in the growing list of victims laudable the economic trajectory state terrorism of today! of this murderous regime! )as been since &uterte 1ven without an outright 8-(ight &uterte’s!!!. "ontinued on page =9 took over but declaration of martial law in SEPTEMBER 2020 · PAGE 2 8-(ight &uterte’s!!!. from page $9 ,he crisis the pandemic brought forth dictatorship! In the face of a new martial Meanwhile in the countryside, farmers worldwide is unseen in recent history, law under &uterte’s dictatorship, the and the national minority are growing moving people from all over the globe to youth must again courageously take its ever more restless with relentless resist strengthening fascist and neoliberal place in history and strive for national militari5ation, bombing, forced attacks from their government! democracy! surrenders, psychological warfare, and International solidarity is stronger than ,he streets and the countryside await bloody and destructive counterinsurgency ever due to the shared struggle that is the youth and masses! /dvance the operations! being felt not only in semi#colonial and people’s war to attain true justice and ,he pictures of poverty, corruption, semi#feudal third#world nations but also democracyE 2ust the dictatorship, resist fascism, and state terrorism that the immensely by the working class the fascistE people see today are all too familiar! population in imperialist countries! ,hese are the same scenes from the dark 0o time will be as ripe as now! /mid days of martial law that have painted the global crisis, the &uterte themselves as tableau’s in the nation’s administration has proven that no collective memory! response or solution can be e'pected of Fet, with the intensifying state them! ,he masses have become immune terrorism and dictatorship comes also the to their lies and promises! 0o alleviation burgeoning struggle and resistance of the of the crisis will be felt so long as &uterte people! ,he masses’ unrest has reached remains in power! ,he precedent for boiling point and agitation is at an all#time ouster is unparalleled! high with di+erent sectors eagerly joining <abataang Makabayan calls on all in the growing call for &uterte’s ouster! democratic and patriotic youth to ,he youth’s militancy matches that which continue to persevere in revolutionary was demonstrated during the (irst rage and agitation! ,he youth, alongside Guarter Ctorm that paved the way for the the basic masses, had been in the ouster of the Marcos dictatorship! forefront of the fight against the Marcos ON TERRORIZING THE Contents YOUTH’S DIGITAL SPACE 1ditorial Fight Duterte’ !e" #$rti$% %$"& Ou t 1 the 'i(t$t)r hi*& <abataang Makabayan calls on all patriotic youth to resist the B0B’s renewed O! terr)ri+i!g the ,)uth’ 'igit$% *$(e 2 attempts at curtailing the masses’ democracy and freedom of speech through social media surveillance, and predictably, psywar! -ighe t re.)%uti)!$r, $%ute t) 2 #$ e ’ /e%).e' K$ Fi'e% @nder the pretense of enforcing either by being gunned down by state (eature Auarantine regulations, the B0B forces, or by succumbing to hunger and A C).i'012 *r)g!) i )3 the Fi%i*i!) 5 4ee*!e, announced that it will be monitoring poverty:by forcing the lot of them to activity on social media sites like embrace the digital space as its only Fru tr$te Duterte’ r$/i' $tte#*t t) 6 e$% hi 'i(t$t)r hi*& Re i t the 3$ (i t& (acebook and ,witter to spot potential reality! 7iterary violators! It is peak irony for the B0B to Ctill, despite the government’s vain Si,$!g W$%$!g P$!g$%$! 7 claim that social media monitoring will e+orts, the militant and patriotic youth merely be their tool to penali5e caught refused to be bullied by fascist lapdogs! lockdown o+enders when it is through Instead, they decisively faced the threat of Highest revolutionary salutes social media that high#ranking fascists state backlash and integrated with the to masses’ beloved Ka Fidel like Metro Manila chief &ebold Cinas and masses and organi5ed even more of the <a (idel’s life in the revolution is an B0B chief /rchie Damboa were e'posed youth and students! e'emplary of the life all revolutionary and breaking their own rules but managed to 0ow, with amplifying demands for the patriotic youth strive to live! get away scott#free through outright &uterte administration’s accountability ,he recent passing of <a (idel /gcaoili denial and power play! for the crisis the country is e'periencing, of the 0ational &emocratic (ront of the Indubitably, this is but another and defeaning clamor from the youth and Bhilippines 80&(B9 brings grief to all desperate measure to try to control the masses, &uterte’s paid goons are moving (ilipino revolutionaries! youth and masses as it grows ever more to the digital space to try to crack down ;ut at the same time, we remember restless with the negligence and apathy on the growing number of government 8-)ighest revolutionary!!!. continued on page 49 the &uterte administration is bra5enly dissenters and critics! e'hibiting! It is without a doubt that the B0B will ,his comes not long after a series of use this new -project. to hand#pick more attacks on youth and mass leaders all over youth leaders to harass and red#tag, while the country : raging from blatant and attempting to scare or threaten the rest! ceaseless red#tagging accusations by In the face of intensifying attacks by an government and military o6cials, to ever#decaying regime, <abataang actual threats and murders of activists Makabayan stands with all patriotic youth! and human rights workers! ,he youth must now, more than ever, Cince the start of the pandemic, the resolutely oppose &uterte’s tyrant tricks &uterte regime has tried desperately to and e'pose its utter uselessness and isolate the youth and students from the gross criminalityE wider masses who are dying everyday: SEPTEMBER 2020 · PAGE 5 FEAT8RE9 &uterte is using "ovid#$% as a smokescreen to pursue his anti#poor jeepney phaseout! Cince the beginning of the pandemic and regulations outlining that only L,MM= comprador cohorts! ;illions more have been the subseAuent country#wide lockdown, traditional jeepneys would be allowed to sAuandered in foreign debt while the (ilipino &uterte, in his late#night ramblings, has travel : leaving a startling L4,%% or %=N people are only falling deeper into poverty declared and threatened -war.
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