MANILA, Philippines – Left-leaning organizations led by Kilusang Mayo Uno marked the commemoration of Bonifacio Day with protests.
They called on a heightened resistance against what they said is a fake revolutionary government under President Rodrigo Duterte.
They claimed the present administration’s killing spree against dissenters has already killed 18 advocates of worker’s rights.
“It is a bogus revolutionary government. It’s a great deception because it is contrary to the legacies of Gat Andres Bonifacio,” Kilusang Mayo Uno chairperson, Elmer Labog said.
The proposed revolutionary government according to them is only meant to establish a dictatorship.
Labog said Duterte is becoming a lot more like the late President Ferdinand Marcos.
“Really, what Marcos had done in the past, Duterte is now doing. He is not only idolizing him, we thought it would end with the burial [of Marcos’ remains], but it seems he is looking towards a one-man rule, dictatorship, and tyranny,” Labog said.
Former Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo said another authoritarian rule is not a solution to the problems of the country.
“We have been in a martial law and it was clear who benefited from it. The rich got richer. Rights were violated, many were killed,” Taguiwalo said.
From the Plaza Bonifacio in Manila, the group tried to proceed to Mendiola but they were intercepted by the police.
They tried to break through the barricade but police used water cannons to drive them back. The rallyists then burned Duterte’s effigy. – Roderic Mendoza | UNTV News & Rescue
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