REFORMIST

AKBAYAN wants to change the system by engaging it. The idea is to instill in everyone that each of us has a stake in our country, that we are all in this together, and that we are capable of putting forward credible reforms and real social change.

The word war between the Anakbayan party-list group and Akbayan regarding the latters qualification to run under the party-list system would have been an ordinary event in the never-ending tirade of the Reaffirmists against other Left groups since the split of the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1991. This time, however, the Reaffirmist-led youth groups Anakbayan, League of Filipino Students (LFS), National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP) plus its worker coalition Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) took it a step further. They wrote a formal letter to the Commission on Elections to investigate AKBAYAN party-list and their nominees and if it is determined by the Commission that they are not qualified as party-list groups and nominees, remove and/or cancel the registration of AKBAYAN and deny due course the certificate of nomination filed by the party-list group. In so doing, these groups have crossed a political line, presumably with the blessing of the CPP leadership. They presume now that they should have the monopoly of Left parliamentary politics. This is in addition to their false assertions that their group has the monopoly of Left mass politics and that armed struggle is the only way to power. It is a step up from the previous threats of physical elimination of specific Akbayan personalities and leaders. It is to be recalled that in the 1998 national and local elections, the CPP and its organizations in the legal mass movement boycotted the newly-implemented party-list system, calling it a reformist institution. However, an outcry among the leaders and ranks of its legal mass movement to participate forced the party to revise its policy and led to the formation and participation of Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Anak ng Bayan, Gabriela Womens Party, Migrante, and Suara Bangsa Moro in the 2001 party-list elections. When the party decided to participate in the party-list system, it did so on a grand scale. The strategy of separate sectoral formations was resorted to make use of its wasted votes above the six percent required of the three-seat maximum set by law. Bayan Muna was maintained as both a national political party and a multi-sectoral party-list group, with the objective to make it as the center for their parliamentary work. In the current 2013 party-list elections, more than 10 party-list groups coming

from this same political root have applied for party-list accreditation. It does not include Makabayan, which had been reportedly accredited by Comelec as a national political party apart from Bayan Muna. The current CPP-led attacks against Akbayan are evidently aimed at monopolizing Left parliamentary politics and curtailing its political influence, especially after the latter entered the popular Aquino-led ruling coalition. In the 2013 elections, they ride on the popular call for cleansing of the party-list system of bogus groups, and called for the disqualification of Akbayan. There is a real fear that Akbayan will successfully attain the status of an independent national political party after the elections. This fear comes from the realization that the CPP-led armed struggle is getting nowhere, without a strong cadre backbone, a broad-based mass base, and effective international support. This is especially acute at this time when there is a real possibility of permanent peace in the Moro rebellion with the signing of a framework agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The CPP is faced with the strategic dilemma of continuing a politically dead-end course of a protracted armed struggle or pursue the possibilities of the parliamentary arena. The attacks on Akbayan are evidently aimed at preparing the ground for the latter. The applicable Marxist tactical term here is directing the main blow against the secondary target. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) for Akbayan, it is now classified in the same league as the Lavaites in the late 1960sthe principal obstacle to be removed so that there is only one Left group standing. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) for those in the CPP who opt for the parliamentary struggle, the current state of Philippine democracy allows their meaningful participation. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) Akbayan had already blazed the trail towards meaningful Left participation in the parliamentary struggle. Anak ng Akbayan.

REFORMIST: ANAK PAWIS

http://www.anakpawis.net/ The voice of the toiling masses in the arena of mainstream politics Mission Anakpawis believes that those who labor to create the nations wealth should have a prominent role in the shaping of the nations direction, and thus should they be involved in the countrys cultural, economic and political decision-making process. This guides the stance of Anakpawis on specific issues, including immediate

sectoral concerns. 1. To promote self-reliant, socio-economic development through the integrated programs of genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization; 2. To uphold and defend the peoples inherent right to beneficial work, to just and living wages, fair and humane working conditions, and to self-organization; 3. To assert the peasantrys right to own and till the land, and promote the campaign for food self -sufficiency and sovereignty; 4. To uphold and advance the fisherfolks right to utilize marine and inland fishery areas and resources; 5. To assert the peoples inherent right to decent and adequate housing and livelihood; and protect them against any form of eviction and displacement; 6. To promote a scientific, progressive and patriotic culture that liberates the people from backward, feudal, colonial and exploitative traditions. Corollary to is the promotion of the basic right to free education; 7. To remove all barriers to the full participation of women in the processes of production and decision-making; as well as protect children from child labor and other forms of abuse and exploitation; 8. To forge solidarity and mutual cooperation beneficial among workers and peasants organizations and progressive parties all over the world; 9. To guarantee the right to self-determination of the Bangsa Moro, Cordillera and other national minorities and affirm their right to participate in all matters that directly affect them; 10. To defend the peoples right to self determination, free from foreign interference, domination and control. Company Overview In our unceasing struggle for national freedom and democracy, for social emancipation and transformation, a political party has been formed to amplify the voice of the people's movement. A party that will give voice to the toiling masses in the arena of mainstream politics, and will directly serve the welfare and interest of the poor and marginalized. A party that seeks to reach out to other sectors of Philippine society and bring them closer, in unity with the poor and the oppressed. A party whose politics, principles and ideals speak of genuine people's empowerment, envisioning a society where there is true freedom, genuine democracy and peace based on justice. This is Anakpawis.

REVOLUTIONIST
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Kabataang Makabayan

The Kabataang Makabayan was founded in 1964 as a comprehensive organization of patriotic and progressive young men and women, ranging in age from 15 to 35, from the ranks of students, workers, peasants, professionals and other sectors. The KM mission was to continue the unfinished Philippine revolution against foreign and feudal domination and to support the working class as the leading class in the new democratic revolution. The KM vision extended to a socialist future. The student component of the KM had originated from the Student Cultural Association of the University of the Philippines that was established in 1959 and had expanded through the nationwide spread of the national democratic movement among college and high school students since 1961. This was the year when 5000 students flooded into the halls of the reactionary Congress and protested against the CAFA anti-communist witchhunt for the professors and students who had written anti-imperialist and anti-feudal articles. The most politically advanced student activists joined the Workers Party and the trade union movement and initiated revolutionary research, studies and anti-imperialist mass actions from 1962 onwards. They developed the component of young workers who would join the KM. Through the veteran revolutionary trade union leaders, they also became connected with veteran peasant leaders and began to encourage student activists to visit the countryside and learn from the peasant masses their needs and demands against the feudal and semi-feudal conditions. This program remains valid and relevant today. The students and youth must fight for national independence and democracy against US imperialism and the local reactionaries. They must fight for national industrialization and land reform in order to develop the economy against foreign and feudal exploitation. They must fight for a national, scientific and mass culture against pro-imperialist, feudalist and bourgeois elitist ideas and values. They must fight for an independent foreign policy that is for world peace and development and opposes imperialism, aggressive wars and all kinds of interferences. The KM was in the forefront of the First Quarter Storm of 1970 and in all succeeding mass actions. Thus, it was among those organizations targeted for destruction by the US-Marcos regime initially through the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in 1971 and eventually through the proclamation of martial law in 1972. All known leaders and members of the KM were subject to arrest, torture, detention and even murder.

The KM was forced underground and continued to help the revolutionary party of the proletariat, the Communist Party of the Philippines, to expand nationwide and strike deep roots among the toling masses. It became the Communist Youth League even as it retained its patriotic name in the underground. Many of the KM activists became cadres and members of the CPP, Red commanders and fighters of the New Peoples Army and organizers of the underground mass movement in both urban and rural areas.