Spread the fires of people's struggles to oust the Arroyo regime

The Filipino people have reached the height of their anger and repudiation of the US-Arroyo regime. They are fed up with, and outraged at, the Arroyo regime's many cases of corruption and mendacity and the acute suffering and oppression it has inflicted on them.

The protest movement is gaining breadth and momentum nationwide. Since the launching of one big rally after another in Makati on February 15 and 29, the collective outpouring of the people's anger has broadened in the national capital and various other parts of the country. All this indicates the Filipino people's resounding repudiation of the US-Arroyo ruling clique and their readiness to tread the path of militant action to put an end to the despicable regime.

More cases of the regime's corruption, lying and brutality are coming to the fore as the protest movement rages. Aside from the anomalies related to the NBN-ZTE project, another recent exposé is that of the antinational agreement entered into by the regime with China, allowing the latter to conduct oil exploration in the Spratly Islands in exchange for billions of dollars worth of loans. A myriad other cases of corruption, including the kickbacks received by the Arroyo family from the IMPSA-Caliraya deal and the Diosdado Macapagal Blvd. overpricing scheme had already been earlier bared.

The people could no longer bear their worsening suffering and poverty. It has become apparent to them that their intensifying hardships are a direct consequence of the Arroyo regime's corruption. The increasingly dismal economic conditions of the broad masses of the people could no longer be obscured by the regime's falsified statistics and media hype about economic progress. The people's growing misery and oppression are increasingly being linked to the regime's reeking corruption.

The regime strains to cover up its heinous crimes by distorting laws, weaving lies, suppressing the mass media and perpetrating a host of other maneuvers and fascist measures. In spite of all this, various sectors—the organized masses, the mass media, church people, businessmen, lawyers—are determined to unravel and expose the truth about the regime's anomalies and corruption.

The desperate regime has stepped up its fascist suppression of those who resist it and desire its ouster. Extrajudicial killings, abductions and other acts of violence against activists, critical media persons and other harsh critics of the regime are rampant. Even rallies and other legal and peaceful forms of protest are blocked and violently dispersed.

But the regime's brutality can no longer rein in the people's seething anger and their growing resistance. The protest movement is spreading like a prairie fire across the land. Rallies have become more frequent and are joined by increasingly bigger numbers of people demanding the regime's overthrow.

We must seize the opportunity presented by the burning protests and resistance to the Arroyo regime. We must reach out to all sectors in every area of the country. We must take advantage of every opportunity to step up our efforts to arouse and organize the people. We must demonstrate the inextricable link between the people's grinding poverty and oppression from day to day and the burning issues of the regime's corruption and repressiveness. We must issue urgent calls to intensify various forms of resistance against the regime. Both open resistance to, and armed struggle against, the regime must be simultaneously waged and advanced.

Conditions are ripe for waging a new, broad and militant people power against the Arroyo regime. We must infuse it with renewed vigor from the lessons drawn from past people's uprisings. We must make it even more historic by raising the level of its organized strength especially from the most impoverished and oppressed sectors and blazing up the national and democratic struggles of the people. Let us give our all in advancing all movements towards this end until the fires of people's struggles spread like a conflagration all over the land.



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