From Ang Bayan posted to the CPP Website (Nov 7): Farmers' protest actions
In Central Luzon (CL), more than 300 farmers from Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL) and Partidong Anakpawis-CL launched a three-day protest action starting October 18. The first day of the protest was spent in front of the Clark Special Eco Zone in Angeles City, where other progressive organizations joined in. Their main demands were the repeal of RA 9700 (CARPER) and the enactment of HB374 or the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB) filed by Partidong Anakpawis.... The protesters also condemned the continuing landgrabbing by the Clark Airbase Military Reservation and the Aquino regime’s puppetry to the US. They assailed the series of Balikatan military exercises in the region and Aquino’s other policies and programs that favor foreign capitalists and cause the eviction of farmers and urban poor. Among those that joined the protests were leaders and members of Alyansa ng Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (AMBALA) and other peasant organizations from other CL provinces affected by various destructive projects or programs. They went to Angeles City and held a vigil at Barangay Pulung Bulo where they launched another rally.... On the last day, the AMGL and Anakpawis-CL joined the KMP’s national protest at Mendiola....
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20121107/farmers-protest-actions
The CPP essentially admits that the groups mentioned above are front groups associated with the party. Since the ideological split that took place within the CPP in the early 1990s, groups holding a different ideological world view have rarely been mentioned in CPP publications in a positive way. Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL-Alliance of Peasants in Central Luzon), a peaseant based sectoral front and Partidong Anakpawis-CL (Children of Sweat-Central Luzon), the Central Luzon chapter of the party-list political party, Anakpawis that represents the peasant and urban poor sectors are both CPP legal front organizatons. As is the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP-Peasant Movement of the Philippines), a national peasant front with chapters active nationwide.
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