Reds: Gear up vs Noy regime’s efforts on Cha-cha

From the Daily Tribune (Mar 6): Reds: Gear up vs Noy regime’s efforts on Cha-cha

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) yesterday called on the Filipino people to gear up against the Aquino regime’s efforts toward Charter change (Cha-cha) which it branded as opening the country’s gates for “recolonization.”

The CPP, in its website, said that President Aquino is exerting all efforts to push Cha-cha, using his allies in the House of Representatives.

“Benigno AquinoI is exerting all-out effort to provide the Cha-cha train full momentum in order to ram through the anti-national provisions that will allow foreign big capitalists to own land and operate their business in the Philippines without restrictions,” said the CPP.

“The CPP calls on all patriotic and democratic forces to gear-up to do battle with the Aquino regime in order to put a stop to its US-designed Cha-cha train,” it added.

The CPP, at the same time, expressed fears that Aquino would utilize the illegal “pork barrel” to fuel the constitutional amendments.

“Beyond doubt, the speed which the Cha-cha train has reached can only have been achieved with the pork barrel fuel provided by Aquino to his favored allies in congress,” said the CPP.

The House of Representatives, led by Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., a close ally of the President, has been pushing for constitutional amendments, supposedly to update economic provisions of the charter particularly the restriction on foreign ownership of land and business.

“The proposal to amend the constitution is nothing but a return to the parity rights amendment of 1946 which the US government had inserted in the Philippine Constitution of 1935,” said the CPP.

“After a century of plundering the Philippines, American big capitalists continue to drool over the remaining forest, mineral and water resources in the Philippines and demand that they be allowed unrestricted rights to profit from our country’s wealth,” it added.

“If successful in pushing for Cha-cha, the Aquino regime will have opened the gates for the virtual recolonization of the Philippines, as the Cha-cha would allow foreign big capitalists, especially US big capital, to control the local economy and, by dint of the size and dominance of their capital, to control the Philippine government,” the CPP also said.

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