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Murder of Union Leader Protested in Philippines What is a lockout? 0 7 TH£ Sankara addresses Nicaragua rally o o o o o 0 8 Interview with Philippines union leader 0 9 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 50/NO. 45 NOVEMBER 28, 1986 75 CENTS Murder of union leader Antiwar forces back protested in Philippines actions BY FRED FELDMAN The brutal murder in Manila of Rolando in April Olalia, chairman of the Philippines' largest trade union federation, has spurred a wave of demands for action against rightist BY JOHN STUDER forces linked to the military that are be­ Delegates to the national convention of lieved to be responsible for the killing. the Mobilization for Survival, meeting in Olalia was chairman of the May I Move­ Minneapolis on November 11 , voted unan­ ment (KMU) and head of the Party of the imously to join with a broad range of other Nation, a left-wing party formed after Fer­ anti-intervention, labor, religious, and so­ dinand Marcos' tyranny fell in February. cial justice groups to help organize a "mass The bodies of Olalia and his driver were mobilization in Washington, D. C., and the found November 13. They had last been West Coast during the weekend of April seen the night before. 24-25." Olalia appeared to have been tortured. The projected mobilization weekend His mouth was stuffed with newspaper, his would include a civil disobedience action on hands were tied, and his face was so muti­ Friday, April 24, and a mass, peaceful lated that his brother was able to identify march and rally on Saturday, April25. The the corpse only from a scar on the right leg. actions-in Washington, D.C., and a com­ The union leader had been stabbed four panion march on the West Coast- will times and shot four times in the head. focus on opposition to the escalating U.S. Outrage at the assassinations was ex­ war in Nicaragua and the rest of Central pressed across the Philippines. America and to the continued U.S. backing for the South African apartheid regime. March on Aguinaldo Meeting on the same weekend, the Mid­ On November 14, an estimated 5,000 west regional conference of the Committee people marched on Camp Aguinaldo, the in Solidarity with the People ofEI Salvador headquarters of Defense Minister Juan (CISPES) and a Mid-Atlantic regional con­ Ponce Enrile. They demanded his resigna­ ference sponsored by the Nicaragua Net­ tion. work also adopted motions to make mobili­ Olalia had reported receiving death Body of Rolando Olalia, murdered head of the May 1 Movement, largest union fed­ zation for this national action a major prior­ threats, which he said were "designed to eration in Philippines. ity for the spring. oppress and suppress" the activities of These decisions reflect growing agree­ those on the left. cratic Front (NDF), the coalition that polit­ pattern which, they suggested, endangers ment by many organizations that a cen­ According to Newsweek magazine, he ically supports the guerrilla fighters of the their own security." tralized mass demonstration in Washington had been warned before his assassination New People's Army, canceled negotiation A leader of Bayan, a broad alliance of and on the West Coast on April25 is neces­ that he had been marked for death by the sessions aimed at reaching a cease-fire with protest groups, said, "This calls into ques­ sary to respond to the escalation of the "Enrile faction," which includes the de­ the government. The front and the NPA tion the entire human rights policy of this U.S. government's war against Nicaragua. fense minister and high military officers. have been urging a 100-day cease-fire. government." The Mobilization for Survival resolu­ Olalia also reportedly told a foreign dip­ NDF negotiator Saturnino Ocampo, vis­ The Party of the Nation called "on all tion, originally submitted by Judy lomat that his name had been placed on a iting the church where Olalia's body lay in freedom-loving Filipinos to leave their Freiwirth, the organization's national "hit list" by the armed forces. state, declared, "We shall continue to fight homes and pour into the streets to defend field organizer, and strengthened by Enrile has called on the government to and avenge his death and the deaths of our newly gained freedoms." amendments added at the conference, crack down on the unions and on the rural­ other victims of fascism." Aquino said November 14 that she was states, "The escalating war in Central based guerrilla movement. Officers in Top government negotiator Ramon "enraged and horrified" by the slayings. America, the deteriorating situation in his entourage have publicly boasted, with Mitra said the NDF had canceled the talks She announced the formation of a panel to South Africa and the failure of nuclear impunity, of their plans to take military ac­ because the murder of Olalia "points to a Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 2 tion to purge the Philippine government of alleged leftists and force acceptance of their policies. Criticism of Aquino Subscription, fund drives top goals President Corazon Aquino, who was brought to office in February by the popu­ BY MALIK MIAH key to the drive. This included selling to The Militant won new subscribers in all lar upsurge against Marcos, has been We've done it! More than 10,000 work­ coworkers on the job, staffing literature ta­ states except Montana, and new readers in criticized by many of those voicing anger ing people and students have signed up for bles on street comers, going door to door in 33 states bought subscriptions to PM. at the assassinations. a subscription to the Militant and the working-class communities, and helping to • The majority of subscriptions were A statement by KMU leaders described Spanish-language monthly Perspectiva process subscriptions. sold to working people. the murders as a "logical result of the pres­ Mundial. This includes 2,214 subscrip­ • Processing subscriptions. A highlight of the drive was sales to co­ ident's indecisiveness and compromising tions to PM - 714 over the I ,500 goal. This was a central accomplishment of workers. It was not uncommon to find attitude in dealing with the Marcos hold­ (See area-by-area breakdown on page 4.) the campaign. Convincing working people salespeople in factories of a few hundred overs, a fact that has emboldened Enrile In addition, some 1, 920 copies of the and students to buy subscriptions is only workers selling more than a dozen sub­ and his cohorts to plot and freely engage in new Pathfinder Press pamphlet The 1985- the first step in getting the publications to scriptions. This ranged from plants or­ bloody intrigues." 86 Harmel Meat-Packers Strike in Austin, them. The next steps are sending the sub­ ganized by the United Auto Workers and "We are not against the Aquino govern­ Minnesota," by Fred Halstead, were sold scriptions to the Militant business office in International Union of Electronic workers ment," said KMU leader Crispin Beltran. along with subscriptions. New York and processing them rapidly. to the International Association of "We offer ourselves as a backup force in This victory reflects the desire of grow­ To ensure that new readers received their Machinists and Amalgamated Clothing and supporting the Aquino government against ing numbers of working people to learn the subscriptions as soon as possible after buy­ Textile Workers Union. those minority people bound to sabotage truth about the U.S. government's an­ ing them, supporters of the socialist papers While subscription sales at plant gates social change." tilabor policies at home and abroad. in New York and Newark assigned teams were minimal, the national effort did lead The KMU called for work stoppages on It was the collective sales efforts of Mil­ to come into the business office each Satur­ salespeople in some areas to relaunch or November 17. According to press reports itant and PM readers around the country­ day to help process the subscriptions - step up their sales to workers entering and from Manila, schools were shut down that in factories, on farms and on campuses, in and on many other days during the week leaving factories. day. Sections of the transportation system Black, Latino, and other working-class too. In addition to on-the-job sales, tables and of the garment and textile industries communities - that made this successful That step meant fewer subscriptions were set up in working-class communities. also shut down. Protest demonstrations oc­ campaign possible. were sold by salespeople in the New York­ These sales tables turned out to be the most curred across Manila, including another That same effort is putting us over the Newark area. But it was only by doing this effective way to make sales of the publica­ march to Camp Aguinaldo. Work stop­ top in the $100,000 Fall Publications Fund, that new readers could get their subscrip­ tions a collective effort, as well as sell a lot pages were also reported elsewhere in the which is why low-introductory subscrip­ tions in a timely manner. of Pathfinder Press literature. tions can be offered and numerous sales • Scope of sales effort. country. • Sales to students. teams fielded during the course of the cam­ Salespeople and teams went to dozens of The New People's Army, which is lead­ Thousands of students bought single states, including, for the first time, a sales ing a guerrilla struggle that has won signif­ paign. copies of the Militant and PM, with hun­ Important features in winning this drive team to Hawaii. A total of 16 national sales icant backing in the rural areas, was re­ dreds more buying subscriptions.
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