CPP/Ang Bayan: Makabayan bolts out of the supermajority

Propaganda article from the English edition of Ang Bayan posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (Sep 21): Makabayan bolts out of the supermajority

MAKABAYAN FORMALLY WITHDREW on September 14 from the “supermajority” or the alliance of various parties inside Congress supporting Rodrigo Duterte. The Makabayan Bloc became part of this formation in support of Duterte’s earlier promises that he will push forward the demands of the people.

In more than a year, Makabayan gave Duterte the opportunity to fulfil his promises to the people.
In its press release, seven progressive congressmen declared the withdrawal from the majority coalition because “the Duterte administration is already blatantly exposed as a fascist, pro-imperialist and anti-people regime.”

Makabayan pointed out that within a year, nearly 13,000 among the impoverished have been summarily executed under the “anti-drug war” campaign of the Duterte regime.

Makabayan’s withdrawal is putting into action its responsibility and principles, as pro-people and progressive lawmakers, to uphold the interests of the marginalized and oppressed sectors of society. Within and outside of congress, the group promised to rigorously oppose the fascist US-Duterte regime and hold it responsible for the widespread human rights violations and further oppression of the Filipino people.

[Ang Bayan is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Philippines. Ang Bayan is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Hiligaynon, Waray and English. Download Ang Bayan from the Philippine Revolution Web Central at www.philippinerevolution.info.  Ang Bayan is published fortnightly by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines.]

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/ang_bayan/20170921-makabayan-bolts-out-of-the-supermajority/