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Pahayagan ng Partido Komunista ng PilipinasPinapatnubayan ng Marxismo-Leninismo-MaoismoANG
English EditionVol. XLII No. 21
November 7, 2011www.philippinerevolution.net
Editorial
The widespread poverty and hunger sufferedby the peasant masses nationwide are tinder-boxes, sparking fires of peasant struggles
everywhere. Farmers have been mounting fierceresistance to various forms of landgrabbing andstruggling for genuine land reform to dismantle
monopoly control over land. They have beenstanding up for their democratic rights even inthe face of intense militarization and fascist vio-lence.
The peasant masses rage in anger at the land-lord president who has done nothing but add totheir suffering. After merely more than a year inpower, Benigno Aquino III has already imposedseveral policies that have been detrimental to theinterests of the peasant masses.
Stoke the fires of peasant strugglesAquino applauded the Supreme Court's deci-
sion in July outrightly disregarding the peas-antry's historic cry for genuine land reform. Thedecision, which calls for a referendum among thepeasants to determine whether they prefer landdistribution or the stock distribution option has
given the Cojuangco-Aquino family another op-portunity to further consolidate its monopolycontrol over the 6,500-hectare hacienda. It ex-poses anew the inutility of the ComprehensiveAgrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms.
The Supreme Court decision will definitely beused by other big landowners as a precedent toblock the implementation of genuine land reform.It already poses a threat to the peasants of Ha-cienda Looc in Nasugbu, Batangas who have been
demanding that the 8,650-hectare estate besubjected to genuine land reform. Thedecision obliterates the peasants' strug-
gle to block the construction of asubdivision and tourist area onthe land they have long been
fighting for.Aquino has also been enforcing
widespread landgrabbing by foreignbig capitalists, big landlords and
comprador bour-
geoisie which hasresulted in theexpulsion ofhundreds ofthousands peas-ants from theirfarms. He haspaved the way for
the conversion of vasttracts of agricultural land in-
to mining sites and plantations and
various infrastructure projects under his Pub-lic-Private Partnership program.
Like the Arroyo regime, Aquino has been auc-
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Contents
Editorial: Stoke the fire of peasant
struggles 1
MRT-7/Hacienda Looc 3
Struggles for land 3
landgrabbing in CV 4
Foreign mining in Panay 6
OPAPP, Deles slammed 6
Anti-OPB campaign in Bicol 7
Tribute for KR in Metro Manila 7
Fr. Fausto Tentorio 9Mass leader in Arakan Valley, killed 10
Justice for the Tineg 8 10
Formers students, arrested 11
30,000 Moro, flee 12
Libya after Gaddafi 12
G20 Summit 13
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tioning off vast landholdings toforeign big capitalists. He hasalready offered more than11,000 hectares in San Marianoand nearby towns in Isabela tobig Japanese capitalists duringa visit to Japan last year. There
is likewise a looming possibilitythat millions of hectares of co-conut lands will eventuallycome under the control of bigAmerican companies afterAquino announced plans by theformer to invest $15 million inthe extraction ofbuko juice (co-conut water).
The Aquino regime is alsopushing for the construction of
a bus and train terminal (MRT-7)as well as residential areas andcommercial establishments in a311-hectare plot in TungkongMangga, San Jose del Monte,Bulacan that is currently beingfarmed by some 300 peasantfamilies. Aquino's transportationsecretary Mar Roxas has person-al interests in going all-out to
pursue the project, since theland is being claimed by thepowerful Araneta clan, to whichhis mother belongs.
On the other hand, theAquino regime has done nothingto raise the incomes of thepeasant masses. His governmenthas failed to raise the palay pro-curement price and likewiseleaves the gates open for big
corporations and exploitativemerchants to undercut the farm-gate prices of tobacco, pine-apple, banana, vegetables andother agricultural products.
The Aquino regime haspulled all stops to attract for-
eign big capitalists to plunderthe country's mineral resources.Aside from the usual come-onslike granting them tax holidaysand the right to repatriate theirprofits, Aquino has also assuredthe security of foreign capital-ists by training paramilitarygroups to guard their miningoperations.
Aquino's all-out campaign to
ease the way of plunder for for-eign big capitalists is resultingin the widespread displacementof peasants and minority peo-ples. Plunderous mining corpo-rations have destroyed moun-tains, polluted springs andstreams, caused rivers to swelland degraded vast tracts of agri-cultural land.
Through his minions, Aquinois currently pushing for charterchange to amend provisions ofthe reactionary 1987 constitu-tion that proscribe foreign own-ership of land and impose a 40%limit on foreign equity. Thismeans no less than the recolo-nization of the country, the de-mise of land reform and the fur-ther condemnation of the peas-
ant masses to poverty andhunger.
The abject poverty resultingfrom the Aquino regime's poli-cies has sparked peasant strug-gles in many parts of the coun-try repudiating the ruling
regime for being pro-imperial-ist and pro-landlord. The peas-antry has been fighting for justprices for their produce and just wages for agriculturalworkers. Farmers have marchedand demonstrated in town cen-ters and cities against theseizure of their lands. Theyhave been struggling to blockthe entry of foreign big mining
enterprises and plantations anddemand genuine land reform.
Through their organizations,the peasants have collectivelyfarmed idle lands within the ha-ciendas (bungkalan) to asserttheir right to till the land andreap the fruits of their labor.This has improved the liveli-hoods of farmers nationwide en-
gaged in the bungkalan cam-paign.The peasant struggles that
have erupted create excellentconditions for invigorating theparticipation of the peasantmasses in revolutionary armedstruggle. Simultaneously, theactive support of the New Peo-ple's Army and the revolutionaryforces for the struggles of the
peasantry in accordance withthe program for agrarian revolu-tion imbues the peasant masseswith more energy, courage anddetermination to advance theircause.
The Aquino regime's anti-peasant and antipeople policiesand programs are quickly givingrise to antifeudal, anti-imperi-alist and antifascist strugglesthroughout the country. The ab-ject poverty and oppression thishas engendered are fanning aconflagration of peasant strug-gles that threatens to consumein its flames the reactionaryrule of landlord presidentAquino. ~
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Landgrabbing in Bulacan Continuing strugglein Hacienda Looc
The peasants' struggle at Hacienda Looc has inten-sified in the face of renewed attempts by big com-
prador bourgeoisie to seize the lands within the vastestate.
Hacienda Looc spans five barangays in the adja-cent towns of Nasugbu, Batangas and Maragondon,Cavite with a total land area of 8,650 hectares. Theland is fertile and rich in natural resources. Morethan 1,700 hectares are planted to rice, corn, sugar-cane and vegetables. It also has banana plantationsand is rich in fruit trees such as mango, jackfruit andstar apple.
In 1990, the peasants of Hacienda Looc received
their certificates of land ownership award and eman-cipation patents under the Comprehensive AgrarianReform Program. After five years, however, the gov-ernment revoked the CLOAs and EPs after the Assetsand Privatization Trust sold the entire hacienda toManila Southcoast Development Corp. (MSDC) whichis under the SM Group of Companies.
MSDC and its partner Fil-Estate Lands have beenpushing for the implementation of the Royal Cliff, Har-bor Town and Golf and Country Club projects. They planto construct four golf courses, two yachting ports and
an exclusive beach resort and subdivision that willcater to the very rich.
SM Land, on the other hand, is behind the HamiloCoast Project that will cover 5,800 hectares, includinga 25-kilometer long seacoast dotted with 13 caves andthick forests, among other resources. More than 10,000families are set to be evicted once this SM Land proj-ect pushes through.
The peasants continue to resist SM's land-use con-version and the structures being built by the compa-
ny. They demand the right to own the lands withinHacienda Looc. ~
Progressive organizations are commemorating Peasant Monththrough a series of activities and protests from September toDecember. From October 17 to 21, peasants conducted a lak-
bayan (people's march) to call for the repudiation of the US-Aquinoregime and demand genuine land reform.
The central call in these mass actions is the fight against thewidespread landgrabbing going on in various parts of the country.The peasants exposed the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform ProgramExtension with Reforms (CARPER) as an instrument of the hacien-deros to expand their monopoly control over land. In just over ayear since the new government's ascension to power, the peasantryhas resoundingly repudiated Benigno Aquino III's regime whose
Peasant struggles for land pro-landlord character has be-come excruciatingly apparent.The peasants brought to the
city centers the various agrari-an issues from their localitiesand their struggle for genuineland reform.
Some 1,500 peasants led bythe Kilusang Magbubukid ngPilipinas traveled to Manila fromvarious haciendas in Central Lu-zon, Southern Tagalog, CagayanValley and the Ilocos Region tocamp out at Mendiola to demandgenuine agrarian reform.
More than 300 peasant families fromTungkong Mangga, San Jose del Monte,
Bulacan are in danger of being evicted fromtheir farms and homes on a 311-hectareplot to give way to the construction of the
Metro Rail Transit-7 (MRT-7), a railway sys-tem linking Tungkong Mangga to North Ed-sa, Quezon City as well as LRT Line 1(Baclaran-Monumento) and MRT 3 (Pasay-North Edsa).
The farmers are vehemently againstMRT-7 and their looming eviction. The landto be used by the project should have longbeen distributed to them. Instead, theAquino regime sold the land to the privatecorporations involved in the MRT-7 project.
The land will be the site of a depot and in-termodal station and related commercialand industrial infrastructure. Among theproject's investors are San Miguel Corp.(SMC), Universal LRT Corp. and other localand foreign capitalists.
MRT-7 will cost $1.235 billion or morethan `53.105 billion. DOTC Secretary MarRoxas has shamelessly endorsed the projectin order to secure funding from the Aquino
regime, which will be borrowing up to a bil-lion dollars to finance it. ~
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Landgrabbing worsens in Cagayan Valley
The government has set aside 457,000 hectares of fertile agri-cultural land in Cagayan Valley for the use of multinationalagribusiness corporations such as those engaged in bio-
ethanol production. This land area covers 75% of the region's agri-cultural land in addition to lands classified as forested or up-land areas even if these have long been cultivated by peasants.
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Meanwhile, up to 10,000farmers from Bukidnon and Mi-samis Orienral camped out atthe provincial capitol groundsin Cagayan de Oro. These peo-ple's marches were merely theculmination of several mass ac-
tions launched by peasant or-ganizations since September.
In Eastern Visayas, some1,500 farmers from variousprovinces, town centers andcities marched under the bannerof the Samahan han Gudti ngaParag-uma-Sinirangan Bisayas(SAGUPA-SB) on October 21 andrallied in front of various officesof the Department of Agrarian
Reform (DAR) to de-mand genuine landreform from theAquino regime, thejunking of CARP, thepassage of the Gen-uine Agrarian ReformBill and a stop tomilitarization in thecountryside. In Ca-
tarman, Northern Sa-mar, members ofSAGUPA-SB and theNorthern SamarSmall Farmers Asso-
ciation (NSSFA) marched toprotest continuing militariza-tion in the countryside. NSSFAchair Oscar Tulin said that theAFP has been arming even mi-nors and terrorizing peasantsduring their military operations.
They also demanded the releaseof political detainees like DarioTomada and Felicidad Caparal,peasant leaders who have beenslapped with trumped-upcharges.
In Eastern Samar, theprotests broke a five-year hiatusbrought about by the reign ofterror under Gen. Jovito Pal-paran. The Kapunungan han mga
Parag-uma ha Eastern Samar(KPES) led about 400 peasantsfrom the towns of Borongan,Maydolong, Arteche, Llorente,McArthur and Quinapondan in amarch-rally to protest wide-spread mining operations in the
province. Two big mining compa-niesthe Masada Mining Co.and King Resource Mining Com-panyalso continue to operatein Eastern Samar, covering Mc-Arthur, Llorente and Salcedotowns.
In Catbalogan, some 700farmers from various towns ofSamar province joined a protestagainst poverty, hunger and mil-
itarization.In Tacloban City, up
to 200 farmers rallied infront of the Departmentof Agrarian Reform re-gional office (DAR-8)and later launched a
noise barrage at theOld Bus Terminalto protest wide-
spread landgrab-bing, militariza-tion and the peas-ants' continuedlandlessness. ~
ants will not own land and willinstead serve as stewards ofthe forest. As stewards, theycan be evicted anytime by thecompany doing business in thearea or even by the govern-ment. These schemes are meansof evading land distribution.Instead of distributing the landto the peasants, the govern-
ment tells them to engage intree planting, as was the casein a 15,303-hectare area withinthe Sandoval Estate and a 943-hectare plot in Sindon, Ilagan,Isabela.
The same thing has hap-pened in a CBFM-covered 600-
On the whole, more than80,000 hectares will be devotedto plantations that will feedbio-ethanol production. From
the overall target of 11,000hectares in eight towns ofIsabela province, an additional3,000 hectares from four othertowns will be covered by thebio-ethanol contract. In Ca-gayan, 20,000 hectares will beset aside for a plantation and a
bio-ethanol processing plant inLallo town.
Government seizures of landgo on unabated through the use
of various bogus reforestationschemes such as the Communi-ty-Based Forest Management(CBFM), Socialized IndustrialForest Management Agreement(SIFMA) and the Certificate ofAncestral Domain Claim (CADC).Under these schemes, the peas-
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hectare area in Cagayan thatlies along the boundary of Bag-gao and Gattaran towns. Thearea is still classified as forest-ed although peasants havebeen farming the land for
decades and most of it is inhab-ited by Agay minorities. Refor-estation is also being used as apretext by agribusiness corpora-tions for seizing vast tracts ofland. In San Mariano, Isabela,50% of SIFMA areasare planted to sug-arcane instead oftrees. Based on the
peasants' experi-ence, not only canthey lose their landat any time, theycan become victimsof violence in thehands of the land-grabbers, as whathappened in a 500-hectare CBFM inBangag, Lallo, Ca-
gayan.Bogus reforesta-
tion schemes exist side by sidewith the operations of five gi-ant logging companies in184,316 hectares of the region'sremaining forestlands. Large-scale logging has been detri-mental to the lives and liveli-hoods of the people in the re-gion.
Not a single farmer hasbeen given land under theComprehensive Agrarian Re-form Program (CARP) despiteclaims by the Department ofAgrarian Reform (DAR) that ithas distributed 341,793 hec-tares as of 2010. In fact, DARhas even expanded its land-grabbing schemes through the
Comprehensive Agrarian Re-form Program with Reforms(CARPER), principally targetingproblematic agrarian reformcases. Lands that have longbeen the subject of Presiden-tial Decree 27 (the martial lawland reform edict) have not
been awarded to the farmers.The DAR has instead been de-manding renewed amortiza-tions and transferring owner-ship of the land to othersthrough the Voluntary Offer to
Sell option. The farmers eitherend up having their Certifi-cates of Land Transfer, Emanci-pation Patents and Certificatesof Land Ownership Award can-celled or fake ownership pa-
pers suddenly crop up transfer-ring ownership to wealthy andpowerful people and tousurers.
Growing numbers of peas-ants have been slapped withcriminal cases before the De-partment of Agrarian Reform(DAR) Adjudication Board toforce their eviction from theirlands and homes. The biggestcase so far involves the 7,000-hectare Borja Estate in Amu-lung, Cagayan where most ten-ants were able to complete thehigh amortization fees under PD27 through sheer hard work. The
DAR has nonetheless been de-manding another round of amor-tizations to the tune of`100,000 per hectare. In Del Pi-lar, San Mariano, Isabela, thepeasants have been ordered topay fees for a World Bank irriga-tion project supposedly under
the aegis of land reformforthe next 381 years!
At the same time, langrab-bing syndicates led by both bo-gus and licensed lawyers, sur-veyors and engineers in cahoots
with DAR, the Department ofEnvironment and Natural Re-sources (DENR), the Land Bank,the Register of Deeds, the Bu-reau of Internal Revenue (BIR),agribusiness companies and lo-cal government units continueto deceive and extort from themasses and seize their lands. InCagayan, the biggest syndicate
is led by Engr. RubenUlita and in Isabela,the most notorious
s w i n d l e r s group is led bybogus attorney
Nenita Balmaceda-Perez.
A n t i p e o p l eproject. Before the
elections and right after the
Aquino regime came to power, apropaganda blitz was conduct-ed, that included giving thepeople some measure of reliefthrough development projectsthat were in fact antipeople incharacter. In Cagayan province,the Enrile clan's Cagayan Eco-nomic Zone Authority (CEZA)built provincial roads, casinosand hotels, but evicted 300farmers from Barangay Samoc-samoc, Sta. Ana town in Janu-ary. CEZA is the province's lead-ing landgrabber, seizing 54,000hectares in Cagayan.
The government is focusedon initiating other projects thatwould serve imperialist inter-ests. For instance, there areplans to put up five hydro-elec-
tric plants in Isabela, includingone in San Agustin town thatwill be funded by Japan. Otherprojects include the NgarutngotDam in Cagayan and the IlaguenDam in Isabela, the Lallo Inter-national Airport and the con-struction of provincial roads. ~
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NDFP chief political consult-ant Prof. Jose Ma. Sison saidTeresita Quintos-Deles, head ofthe Office of the PresidentialAdviser on the Peace Process(OPAPP) should be slammed for
engaging in a scam andmalversing public funds. Sisonsaid Deles has been recyclingand misrepresenting paramili-tary forces of the GPH like theRPA-ABB and the CPLA as anti-
NDFP rails against P31Mgrant to bandit group
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has as-sailed the government's `31 million grant to the bandit Rebo-lusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Pilipinas (RPMP), Revo-
lutionary Proletarian Army (RPA) and Alex Boncayao Brigade(ABB).
of land in the villages of Aba-ngay, Aglinab, Apero, Artuz,Gebioan, Katipunan, Roosevelt,San Miguel Ilawod and Wright inTapaz town. On the other hand,Quarry Ventures Philippines will
be conducting mining
operations on a 8,524-hectare concessionin four barangaysof Jamindan.
There are con-tinuing antiminingstruggles in Maayon,Cuartero and Du-marao, all in Capiz.In January, thegold-mining appli-cations of threecompaniesTeresa
Marble, Quarry Ventures Philip-pines Inc. and Walter Miningand Industrial Development Cor-porationwere approved.
Meanwhile, hundreds of resi-dents from Igbaras town in Iloilohave signed a petition againstthe application of Emerald Miner-
al Resources Company to conductexploration activities in morethan 2,360 hectares of the munic-ipality. The residents submittedthe petition to the office of theDepartment of Environment andNatural Resources Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau in June. The pe-titioners are from the town centerand the 12 affected barangays ofIgbaras. ~
Opposition mounts againstmining, foreign projectsin Panay
Tumanduk minorities and peasants in Capizand Iloilo provinces are determinedly resist-ing continued landgrabbing by the military
of their ancestral lands in addition to otherpending projects that will wreak havoc on theirlivelihoods and the environment.
Aside from the PhilippineArmy 3rd ID's seizure of 33,310hectares of their ancestral landsand using it as an Army Reserva-tion, the Tumanduk are con-fronting the `19.2 billion JalaurRiver Multipurpose ProjectPhase II. The project, which willstart in 2012, is funded by theChinese and South Korean gov-ernments which will also be pro-viding their own contractors.
The Jalaur dam will provide11 megawatts of electricity to
Iloilo City, potable water, andirrigation for 22,000 hectares ofagricultural land in Iloiloprovince.
On the other hand, the proj-ect will displace residents in thevillages of Aglunok, Hilwan,Marandig, Supanga, Caratagan,Guinbunyugan, Binulosan Pe-queo, Cahigon, Masaroy, Ga-rangan and Arcalaga, all in
Calinog town, Iloilo.The dam which
will be built along the JalaurRiver will be at least 120 metershigh. Water from the AlibunanRiver will be drawn upstreamover a distance of 12 kilometersto fill the dam. The area aroundand upwards of the AlibunanRiver will be declared a water-shed area where farming will bestrictly prohibited. Downstreamareas will be endangered duringthe rainy season due to flash
floods triggered by the openingof the dam gates to release ex-cess water.
The entry of large-scale min-ing also poses a threat. Some ofthe companies that will be initi-ating operations are TMC Inter-national Corporation (TMCIC)and Quarry Ventures PhilippinesInc. in five towns of Capiz. TM-CIC will cover 10,344 hectares
GPH groups. He added that shemust be held responsible for de-ception and for stealing publicfunds in collaboration with GPHparamilitary groups.
NDFP Negotiating Panelchair Luis Jalandoni said thegovernment's grants to theRPMP-RPA-ABB were deceptive
because they create the illusionthat advances are being madein the peace process. Jalandonipointed out that the RPMP-RPA-ABB bandits had long stoppedfighting and are now being usedby the state against the people.They are also being used as paid
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Bicolanos launch anti-OPB campaign
goons by politicians and land-lords.
The `31 million fund isunder the OPAPP's Payapa atMasaganang Pamayanan Pro-gram (PAMANA). The grantforms part of the peace
pact signed by the banditgroup and the Estradaregime on December 6,2000 which formalized theRPMP-RPA-ABB's surrender andcooperation with the govern-ment.
The RPMP-RPA-ABB had al-ready received `500 millionearlier that year, which led
to squabbles over money and the cre-ation of a breakaway faction.The group also received another`10 million for its members who
wanted to be integrated into themilitary.
OPAPP has a history of fund mis-
use. Former OPAPP secretary Gen. Her-mogenes Esperon left `170 million in
unliquidated Social Integration Program(SIP) funds which are given to surrenderees.Deles, on the other hand, has been accused
of using the agency's funds to campaign forGloria Arroyo during the 2004 elections.This revelation has prompted progressivelegislators to demand the OPAPP's aboli-tion. ~
UP to 12,000 Bicolanoslaunched a caravan, rally andprotest camp against the US-Aquino regime's counterrevolu-tionary program Oplan Bayani-han (OPB).
The Alyansa na Kilusan La-
ban sa Militarisasyon saKabikolan traveled on October17-18 to different cities in theregion to call on the people toresist OPB and demand justicefor the victims of human rightsviolations under the Aquinoregime. According to VinceCasilihan of Karapatan-Bicol,there have been 24 cases of ex-
trajudicial killings, 18 cases of
illegal arrest, 20 cases of abduc-tion and 39 cases of terrorismand intimidaion since OPB be-gan. Casilihan cited the acts ofan AFP Community Peace andDevelopment Team that wentfrom house to house in 11
barangays in Guinobatan, Albay,forcing residents to join theBarangay Defense System. Aresident of Pio Duran, Albay wasbeaten up by the military, caus-ing bleeding and pain in variousparts of his body.
Meanwhile, Kilusang MayoUno-Bicol said that OPB's mainvictims are farmers. Aside from
being accused as rebels, strug-
gling peasants in big haciendas,mining companies and areaswhere land-use conversion isrampant are also targeted dur-ing AFP operations.
Meanwhile, the BagongAlyansang Makabayan-Bicol
(BAYAN-Bicol) said that theregime's OPB is nothing but apretentious and deceptive pro-gram being launched in the nameof peace. Militarization continuesside by side with bogus programsostensibly for the poor. Nonethe-less, said BAYAN-Bicol, OPB willalso be defeated the same waythe Arroyo regime's Oplan Bantay
Laya was vanquished. ~
A Red tribute to Ka Rogerin the heart of Metro Manila
Ahuge gathering was held on October 21 at the University ofthe Philippines (UP) Theater in Diliman, Quezon City to hon-
or Gregorio Ka Roger Rosal, the late spokesperson of theCommunist Party of the Philippines (CPP). More than 2,500 peoplefrom various provinces and organizations paid tribute to KaRogera reflection of how much he was admired and loved by rev-olutionaries and the Filipino people.
Many of those who came were from the working class and thepeasantrythe classes Ka Roger fought for in almost four decadesof service to the people. Several fisherfolk, students, professionals,
church people, urban poor andpeople from other sectors werealso present. His relatives andfriends were there, and so werejournalists and a former govern-ment official.
Not only were the seats at
the UP Theater filled to capaci-ty. The aisles brimmed withpeople as well. Many of thosewho came wore T-shirts embla-zoned with Ka Roger's imageand Mao caps which formed partof the late spokesperson's fa-vorite get-up and eventually
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became his trademark. On the UP Theater's wallswere hung banners of theCPP, the New People'sArmy, the National De-mocratic Front of thePhilippines (NDFP) andits allied organiza-
tions.A round of applause
rang through the en-tire theater as KaRoger's portrait firstappeared onstage. Be-side his huge like-ness were the wordsKa Rogerthe un-dying voice of thepeople.
The most strik-ing parts of thetribute were thevideo presenta-tions of Ka Ro-ger's interviews,his family, friends, comrades in struggle andleaders of the revolutionary movement. Thevideos showcased his childhood and schooling,his political awakening, arrest and escape from
detention, his membership in the New People'sArmy, his life as a leader, an effective andmuch-admired CPP spokesperson and his beingan exemplary revolutionary and communist.Many of his statements spoken on screen weregreeted with hearty applause, proving thateven in death, his words remained sharp assteel.
The speeches paid the highest tribute to thelate spokesperson. The NDFP honored Ka Rogerthrough a statement read on video by Ka Luis Ja-
landoni. NDFP chief political consultant Jose Ma.Sison sent a separate videotaped tribute. Onstage, various individuals who had worked with,or knew and admired Ka Roger gave their eulo-gies. Among them were NDFP peace consultantVicente Ladlad; Philippine Peace Center executivedirector Rey Casambre; BAYAN chair Dr. CarolAraullo; GABRIELA secretary-general Lana Lina-ban; Tata Pido from Pamalakaya; former BayanMuna representative and Makabayan alliancepresident Satur Ocampo; and Fely Indanan, KaRoger's younger sister. DzRH anchor Deo Macalmawho often interviewed Ka Roger on the air hailedthe late Party spokesperson. Former GPH negoti-ating panel chair Atty. Silvestre Bello III paid hisrespects.
The speeches focused mainly on how well KaRoger fulfilled his role as CPP spokesperson. Theyunderscored his fine revolutionary attitude in in-
tegrating with comrades, the masses, the mediaand even with GPH representatives. Most of all,they extolled the firmness of his revolutionarystandpoint.
The cultural presentations during the specialprogram were militant. Song and dance presenta-tions from various groups and individuals furtherinvigorated the tribute. As poet Jess Santiagosang and played on his guitar Awit ngKainginero, an original composition by Ka Roger,the Sinagbayan cultural group performed an in-terpretative dance. Kumasa, a workers' culturalgroup from Southern Tagalog sang revolutionarysongs, including Ka Roger's poem Baseng Bukidwhich was set to music. The First Quarter Storm
Movement, the People's Chorale and Chikoy Puraof The Jerks also presented songs.
Messages sent by political detainees AlanJazmines, Eduardo Serrano, Eduardo Sarmientoand Prospero Aguda from their prison cells inCamp Crame and from Tirso Alcantara in FortBonifacio were read during the program.
The tribute was capped with all the partici-pants standing with their clenched fists raisedsinging the Internationale. The singing was ledby the People's Chorale, leaders of various legalorganizations and other personalities. Simultane-ously, videos of one of the gun salutes for KaRoger conducted in an NPA guerrilla zone and alightning rally held by the RCTU-NDFF in SouthernTagalog were shown on screen. The UP Theaterthundered with cries of Long live Ka Roger! andLong live the Communist Party of the Philip-pines! ~
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While traveling from DavaoCity to Kidapawan City, the car-
avan stopped in front of the57th IB headquarters in Maki-lala, Cotabato. The participantsgot off their vehicles to con-demn the slaying of the Italianpriest and Ramon Batoy, a peas-ant leader closely associatedwith Fr. Tentorio (see related ar-ticle). Brimming with anger, theLumad and peasants who joinedthe protest destroyed a bill-
board in front of the headquar-ters extolling Oplan Bayanihan.They also used red paint towrite the word berdugo(henchman/executioner) on thecamp's signboard.
Military and police elementstried to stop the caravan threetimes. Military agents harassedand took pictures of the protest-ers. But this failed to deterthem. The mourners had onecry: Justice for Fr. Tentorio!
The Italian priest is the 54thvictim of extrajudicial killingunder the Aquino regime.
For more than three decades,Fr. Tentorio served as a mission-ary of the Pontifical Institutefor Foreign Missions (PIME) inthe Philippines. He became
known for his unstinting serviceto the Lumad and other impov-erished people in Mindanao'svast countryside. He advancedvarious education and healthprograms as well as other socialservices for the Lumad and oth-er deprived sectors. In North
Cotabato alone, he helped buildup to 80 daycare centers that
mainly serviced Lumad andpeasant children.But it was not only material
assistance that he provided. Hegave moral support to them intheir struggles for their rights.In the process, Fr. Tentorio in-curred the ire of forces who ex-ploited and oppressed theLumad and the peasantry.
Foremost among them were
the big mining companies andtheir protectors among the reac-tionary military and other statearmed forces. They saw him as athreat and an enemy because ofhis opposition to antipeopleprojects and policies.
When Benigno Aquino III or-dered beefed up security thisOctober for mining operations,he gave the go-signal to step upacts of violence against anti-mining activists. Fr. Tentoriowas the first pillar of the pro-gressive antimining movementin Mindanao to be felled by fas-cist butchers after Aquino gavehis marching orders. In snuffingaway his life, the Aquino re-gime, the AFP and the big min-ing companies they have been
protecting believed that thiswould be enough to terrify theLumad and peasants beingrobbed of their land and re-sources into retreating. But Fr.Tentorio's killing has only suc-ceeded in firing up theircourage and anger.
Fr. Fausto Tentorio
He made the causeof the Filipino people his own
More than 15,000 people joined a caravan and funeral marchon October 25 for Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the Italian priest whowas mercilessly gunned down by minions of the 6th Infantry
Division in front of his parish in Arakan, North Cotabato on Octo-ber 17. Aside from his friends and family, among those who sawhim to his final resting place were various Lumad groups, peasants,church people, human rights advocates, environmentalists and pro-gressive leaders.
The revolutionary forces inMindanao recognized and hailedFr. Tentorio's heartfelt service tothe people, especially theLumad who suffer from layers ofoppression. Tributes poured infor him from NDF-Mindanao,
NDF-Far South Mindanao, Ka-bataang Makabayan-SouthernMindanao and the SouthernMindanao Regional Party Com-mittee (SMRPC).
Said the NDF-Mindanao, Fr.Tentorio took a bold standagainst big mining interests,against the continuing milita-rization of the the Arakan Valley
Complex, and against those whotrample upon the rights of boththe peasants and the Lumad. Hewas a true friend of the Filipinopeople.
The NDF-Far South Mindanaohailed Fr. Tentorio as a people'smartyr, honoring him for hisselfless and wholehearted serv-ice to the people in many re-mote place in Mindanao. It
added that his untimely deathstrengthens the revolutionaryforces' resolve to live and fightfor the noble cause of peace,justice and freedom.
KM-SMR likened Fr. Tentorioto Norman Bethune for being anItalian missionary who did nothave second thoughts aboutserving the Filipino masses.Bethune, a Canadian citizen andmember of the Communist Partyof the US who joined the Chi-nese revolution is hailed as anexample of the communist spir-it of internationalism.
The SMRPC gave Fr. Tentoriothe highest praise and paid thehighest tribute. The regionalcommittee summed up how hislife and personality were molded
during his long years of inte-grating with and serving themasses, his study of their condi-tions and his participation intheir struggles. Said the SMRPC,Fr. Tentorio was an Italian whobecame a great Filipinoacommunist and internationalist
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Justice for the Tineg 8
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lements of the 503rd Brigade and 41st IB committed grave
violations of the international rules of war and the Compre-hensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and Inter-national Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) when they killed eightRed fighters belonging to a unit of the Agustin Begnalen Com-mand (New People's Army-Abra) who were encircled by the ene-my in the morning of October 10 in Barangay Caganayan, Tineg,Abra.
According to accounts by the surviving guerrillas, the eightRed fighters were all wounded and rendered hors de combat. Inspite of this, the soldiers finished them off. Still not content,the military desecrated the remains of seven of them. The lat-
ter's bodies all bore signs of torture and other forms of abuse.
Soldiers gun down peasant leaderin Arakan Valley
Three days after a fascist military operative murdered Fr. Faus-to Tentorio, a peasant leader closely allied with the slain
priest was also mercilessly killed by elements of the 5th SpecialForces, a military unit under the 6th ID which masterminded Fr.Tentorio's killing.
Ramon Batoy, 35, a leaderof the Arakan Progressive Peo-ple's Organization (APPO) wasgunned down by soldiers inSitio Upper Lumbo, BarangayKabalantian, Arakan, NorthCotabato on October 20.
According to his wife Gina,Batoy was preparing to go totheir farm when soldiers from
the 5th Special Forces arrivedto search their house. Batoyrefused to let them in becausethey did not have a search war-rant. The lieutenant who wasleading the raid proceeded tobeat him with his rifle butt. Ba-toy defended himself by hackingthe officer in the neck with hismachete. Another soldier wasalso wounded in the scuffle.
Three troopers shot Batoyto death in front of his twochildren and his wife who wassix months pregnant, despitetheir pleas for mercy. The sol-diers then planted an M14 riflebeside Batoy's body and tookhis picture.
Not content, the troopersstrafed his neighbors' housesand arrested, detained and tor-tured two civiliansNoli Badoland Celso Batoyand accusedthem of being members of theNew People's Army (NPA). Res-idents of Upper Lumbo fledtheir homes in fear.
The military concocted lies
to cover up its heinous crime.According to the military's ver-sion, the Special Forces wentto the area because the NPAwas allegedly planning an at-tack. Officers and spokesper-sons of the 57th IB and 602ndBrigade under which the Spe-cial Forces operate claimedthat Ramon Batoy was killedafter a 30-minute encounter
between the soldiers and theNPA. Members of APPO vehe-mently deny the allegation.
Mourners who attendedboth Batoy and Fr. Tentorio'sfuneral wakes vowed toachieve justice for their brutalkillings. ~
who devoted more than half ofhis life to serve the interests ofthe poor Filipino masses andmake the cause of the Filipinopeople his own.
The regional committeevowed revolutionary justice forFr. Tentorio, saying that thepeople's army stands ready toconfront and hold the enemy ac-countable for killing him. Amidtheir expressions of grief, theydeclared their determination tostruggle to overthrow the ene-mies who have felled him andattain a society free from ex-
ploitation and oppression. ~
Contrary to media reports,the military did not bring thecomrades' bodies to Bangued,Abra's capital, but left themwith the local residents whohad no way of transporting theremains. Neither could residentsof Tineg and the nearby town ofLacub approach the encountersite to retrieve the bodies be-cause the military had beencontinuously bombing and rain-ing machine gun fire on thearea. Abra Gov. EustaquioBersamin was compelled to takeaction to retrieve the decom-posing bodies after residentsand representatives of humanrights groups spent days airing
their demands.The Abra governor com-
mended Lt. Jeson Capoquianwho led the assault. The follow-ing accounts of the savagery in-flicted by the military troops onthe Tineg 8 show the kinds ofacts that are worthy of praise toreactionaries and fascists:
! Edgardo Ka Recti Bal-bin's skull was crushed and
cracked open. He was alivewhen the soldiers sprayed himwith gunfire. His other injurieswere caused by heavy blows andnot from gunshots.
! Reynaldo Ka KrisMasadao was shot near his leftear at close range. Like Ka Rec-
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ti, he was wounded. His right leg was al-most severed from his body after the mil-
itary severely crushed hisbones. He was alsohacked and kicked bythe soldiers.
! The top of MiguelKa Oxy Anggaboy's
skull was blown off,and his brain removed.Ka Oxy was the teamleader of the guerrillas.He was wearing a pairof shorts when his body
was retrieved, but hewas in pants when the
fighting took place.! Reyna Ka
Ogie Villacarlos wasshot near her right ear
at close range. Hershorts and panties weretorn in the crotch area.Residents said that when
they first found her,
she was naked.! The left side of Rodel Ka Bunso Corpus'
torso bore hack wounds. So did his arms, thighsand calves. The top of his skull had been blownoff by two gunshot wounds.
! Marks on Ka Omeng's neck show that themilitary used rope or a piece of cloth to hang orstrangle him.
! Ka Berlin's nose was blown off.Only Dorothy Ka Winnie Ating's body did not
bear signs of abuse.In a statement, the Communist Party of the
Philippines called on human rights advocates,lawyers, church people, international humanrights agencies and the Joint Monitoring Commit-tee which oversees the GPH and NDFP's compli-
ance with the CARHRIHL to conduct their own in-vestigations on the Tineg 8. It called on forensicexperts to examine the bodies and expose thetruth.
The CPP said it was very evident in the case ofthe Tineg 8 that there is no difference whatsoev-er between Aquino's Oplan Bayanihan and theformer Arroyo regime's Oplan Bantay Laya when itcomes to savagery and brutality. ~
Soldiers torture 3 Red fighters in Rizal
Three Red fighters of the Narciso AntazoAramil Command (New People's Army-Rizal)have been arrested, tortured and held in-
communicado. The three, who are former stu-dents of the Polytechnic University of thePhilippines were captured in the evening of Oc-
tober 26 in Barangay Sta. Inez, Tanay, Rizal.They were identified as Marissa Espedido, 21;Hermogenes Reyes Jr., 22; andJared Valero Morales, 21.
The victims were arrested by com-bined elements of the 16th IB, RizalPNP and CAFGU. In a statement, theNarciso Antazo Aramil Command saidthe three were conducting consulta-tions on the peace talks when they
were arrested.The victims were detainedovernight in a detachment under the59th IB where they underwent in-tense interrogation and torture. They were blind-folded and bound and brought to the 16th IBheadquarters in Pinugay, Baras, Rizal the next day
where they were subjected to more intense inter-rogation and torture.
The victims were prevented from seeing orconversing with their relatives and were slappedwith criminal charges to prolong their detention.They are currently being held at the Rizal Provin-
cial Jail in Taytay, Rizal.The Communist Party of the Philippines de-
manded that the victims be accordedprisoner of war status and theirrights respected. The CPP said thatthe three victims' cruel treatmentcontrasts with the NPA's humanetreatment of captured soldiers andpolicemen.
Meanwhile, bishops and progres-
sive organizations in Davao Citycalled for the release of NPA fightersVanessa delos Reyes, Ariel Haducanaand Jason Casilum who were all hors
de combat when captured by the AFP. BishopDelfin Callao has appealed for the three detaineeson humanitarian grounds. ~
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30,000 Moros flee
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p to 30,000 Moro civilians from ZamboangaSibugay and Basilan provinces have fled
their homes since the Armed Forces of thePhilippines (AFP) began relentless aerial bomb-ing and ground attacks on their communities inthe last week of October.
The evacuees are from the towns of Ipil, Na-ga, Kabasalan, Alicia, Payao and Mabuhay inZamboanga Sibugay and five barangays in Al Bar-ka, Basilan.
The AFP's massive military offensive was al-legedly spurred by the deaths of 19 soldiers in anambush by Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)fighters in Al Barka on October 18. The casualtieswere part of an AFP Special Forces team of morethan 40 men that attempted to raid an MILF po-sition. The MILF condemned the attack as a vio-lation of their ceasefire agreement with the GPH.
Even if the AFP's own investigations revealedthat the big number of casualties resulted fromweaknesses as well as mistakes committed by thesoldiers, Malacaang propagandists quicklypounced on the Al Barka ambush to use it as a
pretext to step up the military offensive againstthe MILF.
To obscure its brutality, especially against the
civilian population, Malacaang dubbed the AFP'santi-MILF campaign as one of all-out justice in-
stead of all-out war. The gimmickry behind thelabel was bared when word leaked out that theall-out justice slogan was coined by the Aquinoregime's tourism secretary, who is a former adver-tising executive. Through this deceptive slogan,the Aquino regime aims to go all-out to suppressthe Bangsamoro struggle through military mighteven as it continues its attempts to trap the MILFinto capitulating through deceptive peace nego-tiations.
Said the Moro Resistance and Liberation Orga-nization (MRLO), an allied organization of theNational Democratic Front, instead of addressingthe legitimate grievances of the MILF and theMoro people, the Aquino regime's main agendahas been war and deception. Aquino himself hasbeen pushing for all-out war against theBangsamoro to defeat their struggle and pave theway for the plunder of the Bangsamoro homeland.
The MRLO therefore believes that theBangsamoro armed struggle within the framework
of national-democratic revolution is the only so-lution that will put an end to Bangsamoro oppres-sion and achieve genuine peace and justice. ~
Libya after Gaddafi
US imperialism and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Or-ganization (NATO) rejoiced when their putschist minions be-
sieged and killed Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in the cityof Sirte on October 20.
The US, France, GreatBritain, Italy and other imperi-alist countries have been cir-cling like vultures over a pros-trate Libya, relishing thethought of feasting on thespoils of war after mounting aseven-month siege. They now
control billions of dollars worthof Libyan assets deposited invarious European banks. (Infact, days before the fall ofTripoli in the last week of Au-gust, the US had already askedthe National Transitional Councilto reimburse it for its war ex-
penditures). The imperialistshave also tightened control overLibya's vast oil fields andgold resources. Plans arealso underway to priva-tize Libya's water systemand rake in superprofitsfrom contracts for the re-
construction of the war-ravaged country. (ReadAng Bayan's September21 issue for more de-tails).
While the imperi-alists enjoy their war booty,there is stiff in-fighting among
the various factions that tem-porarily united under the pro-monarchy banner and their com-mon hatred for Gaddafi. Thesearmed factions have their owninterests and their own special
forces and advisers. Under thesecircumstances, it would be veryeasy to establish the US AfricanCommand (AFRICOM) militarybase to monitor these rival fac-
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tions.Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, who chairs the Interna-
tional League of People's Struggle (ILPS), citedthese various rival forces.
First in line are the main leaders of the Na-
tional Transitional Council (NTC) who are now jockeying for position after the assassination oftheir commanding general Abdul Fatah Younis.Younis, Libya's defense minister before he boltedthe Gaddafi camp was assassinated by fellow NTCleaders while advancing towards Tripoli. Membersof his tribe, the Obeidi, are now rearing to avengetheir leader's treacherous killing. Second are theQatar-backed Islamic groups that include the vet-eran pro-al Qaeda Libyan Islamic Fighting Groupand the leaders of military juntas ruling Tripoli
and Benghazi ranged against secularists support-ed by rebels based in Mistrata and Zintan. Asidefrom these, there are other feuding armed fac-tions, tribes and regions.
Contrary to expectations, there will be nodemocracy in Libya even if it now has a newprime minister in the person of Abdel-Rahim al-Keeb or even if elections are held. This is becauseany armed faction that takes power will tend tobe corrupt and rule with a mailed fist because of
its absolute hold on power, said Sison.On the other hand, conditions are favorable
for the development of a national liberationmovement that the new puppet, brutal and cor-rupt regime will give rise to. Intense rivalry per-
sists among the various armed factions. In addi-tion, the Gaddafi camp still has a significantnumber of supporters. With the existence of thenew regime, the broad masses will definitely bedeprived of the benefits they enjoyed under theGaddafi regime such as free education, healthservices, housing and electricity, subsidies for ve-hicle purchases, allowances for newlyweds andpregnant women and the like.
Despite the imperialists' contempt and theirattempts to demonize Gaddafi, his death as an
anti-imperialist martyr and fighter still providesinspiration to the various tribes and to blackLibyans (who comprise one-third of the popula-tion) to struggle for national liberation.
The ILPS foresees that after the rise of an an-ti-imperialist movement, the patriotic and pro-gressive forces will emerge including the revolu-tionary party of the working class and the union-ist movement as well as the democratic mass or-ganizations that were formerly suppressed. ~
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The G20 leaders could notagree on the details of how tofinance the European FinancialStability Facility (EFSF) whichprovides the Eurozone bailoutfunds for crisis-ridden govern-
ments. The G20 also failed toexpand the resources of the In-ternational Monetary Fund (IMF)as a global institution that pro-vides services during economicemergencies. The EFSF and theIMF both need more than a tril-lion Euros each but could only
provide loans of up to 400 bil-lion Euros.
The summit's only realachievement came when Ger-many and France suceeded incoercing Greek prime minister
George Papandreou to abandonplans of subjecting to a referen-dum the austerity measures im-posed by the European Commu-nity Bank, the European Com-mission and the IMF as condi-tions for a bailout.
Everyone was shocked on the
first day of the summit when Pa-pandreou announced his plansbecause of the tremendous im-plications this would have notonly on Greece but on countries
in the Eurozone, EU and theworld over. Everyone knew thatshould measures such as wagefreezes and curtailed benefitsand social services be subjectedto a referendum, the Greekswould answer with a resoundingNO. ~
Summit for nothing
Signifying the depth of the crisis of the international capital-ist system, imperialist leaders failed anew to unite on whatmeasures to take to address threats of a new explosive eco-
nomic crisis. The latest G20 summit held in Cannes, France on No-vember 3-4 came to nought. At the meeting were the leaders of the20 biggest economies worldwide as well as their finance ministers
and representatives of their central banks. But after the two-daysummit, and the billions of dollars spent for it, the imperialistleaders failed to agree on what to do. The meeting was dubbed theSummit for Nothing by the media.
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Port operations in Oakland, California, USAwere paralyzed after a protest attended bymore than 7,000 people on November 2. The
Oakland port is the country's fifth busiest.The Oakland demonstration is part of the Oc-
cupy Oakland protest actions which draws inspi-ration from Occupy Wall Street. Most ofthe protesters were workers who con-demned their unfair treatment and thegrowing gap between the rich and thepoor.
On the night of November 2, anumber of protesters occupied a va-cant building. The police came and
dispersed the protesters who wereoutside the building. The protestersremained undaunted in the face ofpolice brutality. They put up a barri-cade that was dismantled when po-lice lobbed tear gas and shot at theprotesters, wounding a man and se-riously injuring more than a hundredothers. The police arrested and beat up more thana hundred protesters. Nonetheless, the demon-
strators set up their camp once more where theyheld meetings to plan more protests.
Occupy Oakland began on October 10 when
protesters occupied two parks and set up morethan 150 tents. At dawn on October 25, the po-
lice dismantled the camp but theprotesters tried to return. In theensuing clashes, three protesters
and two police officers werewounded and more than a hundred
arrested.Among the demonstrators who
were seriously wounded was ScottOlsen, one of many Iraq war veterans
currently unemployed and impover-ished. From his hospital bed, Olsenhas come to symbolize the extentof the US government's neglect ofits citizens.
Occupy Oakland is only one ofthe many other protest camps inthe US. In California, protesters are
also occupying the cities of San Francisco andSan Jose. ~
Protests paralyze major US port
