The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins millions of
Filipino workers on the occasion of the International Workers Day. As the
advanced detachment of the working class, the CPP recognizes May 1 as among the
most historic days for the toiling masses and their militant struggle to
advance and defend their rights and welfare. May 1 has a special place in the
history of socialist revolution.
On the occasion of May 1, the CPP
joins the mass of Filipino workers in advancing and defending their democratic
rights and welfare. The CPP supports the clamor of the workers for higher
wages, to defend their union rights and oppose contractualization and other
forms of flexible labor.
The conditions of the Filipino
working class under the current US-Aquino regime are deplorable. Continuing the
policy of “cheap labor” is among the fundamental policies of the US-Aquino
regime in line with its perverted and worn-out “development” program designed
by the IMF-WB that relies on foreign debt and investments. The problem of low
wages is further aggravated by the “two-tier wage system” that basically denies
the workers right to a minimum
wage .
Almost half of the entire labor
force are unemployed or underemployed. Around 10% of the Philippine population
work overseas as contractual workers, indicative of the backwardness of the
economy. The successive pro-IMF governments have opposed land reform and
national industrialization. As a result, the problems of widespread
unemployment and pervasive poverty, hunger and rural oppression have become
acute. The reactionary government makes use of widespread unemployment to
further push down workers wages.
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