Union members affiliated to the labor center, Kilusang Mayo Uno raise the red flags while they march the streets from Magsaysay Park to Rizal Park.
Workers wear shirts with their calls to raise the national minimum wage to P750 for the private sector and P16,000 for the public sector.
Manobo women raise their fists as they join the workers march in Davao City. They also called for the immediate release of the calamity funds for the El Niño affected area
A cultural group performs a dance depicting the situation of workers in the Philippines
A quote popularized by German philosopher, Karl Marx, lives today as one of the rallying calls of the workers
Carlo Olalo, spokesperson of Kilusang Mayo Uno challenges all the presidentiables to end contractualization in the country. On the background is a photo of the Russian leader, Joseph Stalin.
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) front group propaganda activity. The Kilusang Mayo Uno (May One Movement) is a CPP-affiliated labor federation and a founding member of the main CPP multisectoral umbrella front organization the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN-New Patriotic Alliance).
ReplyDeleteWhat I find amusing is that when groups like the KMU are called what they really are (i.e. communist/CPP fronts) by the Philippine military there is such wailing and gnashing of teeth among the front grup leaders who in turn then accuse the soldiers of engaging in "red-baiting" or "red-tagging). But yet in the photos above we see members of the KMU dressed in bright "communist" red and bearing placards with the images of founders of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse Dong Thought." And they assert that they are not communist or are affiliated with the Maoist CPP. Give me a break.