WITH its failure to debunk solid arguments for its disqualification, President Aquino’s favorite party-list group Akbayan has resorted to red-baiting—the same tactic employed by the administration and the military in justifying human-rights violations, including extra-judicial killings, a militant labor group said on Sunday. At the same time, the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) urged the public to reject the “politics of collaboration and deceit” of Akbayan and its allied labor groups now coming to its defense. In a statement, the KMU said that Akbayan is becoming desperate since it is losing in the arena of public opinion that it is now mobilizing its labor groups to wage a propaganda campaign in its defense. “It [Akbayan] is now resorting to a platitude that even the vilest traditional politicians of the country use: that it represents the marginalized, despite all the damning evidences pointing to the contrary,” the KMU said in a statement. The KMU was referring to the “noise” being created by labor groups Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL), Partido ng Manggagawa (PM), and Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP), which it said “desperately skirts the main reasons behind calls for the party-list group’s disqualification.” Acting indignant, APL, PM and BMP raised hell over the protest held by the progressive pro-worker youth group Anakbayan in Akbayan’s press conference, while curiously keeping quiet on the reason of the protest: Akbayan’s red-baiting,” the KMU said....
Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-May One Movement) is a CPP-affiliated labor federation with chapters active nationwide. The feud between these organizations is the result of the ideological split that took place within the Communist Party of the Philippines in the early 1990s. The ideological infighting led to factionalization of the party. Akbayan and its associated labor organizations rejected the primacy of Mao Zhe Dong thought and opted to abandon armed struggle in favor of participation in the political process. The Maoist diehards have never forgiven those who left the CPP to form competitive organizations.
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