Growing Resistance

It can be seen that the Marcos regime contravenes virtually every provision of the Algiers Declaration on the Rights of People (4 July 1976). Marcos' regime by its reliance on martial law and numerous blatant abuses of State power lacks the competence to act on behalf of the Filippino people. Admidst the accelerating economic and political represssion of the US backed Marcos regime, is the ever mounting resistance of all sectors of the Philippino Society, led principally by the workers and peasants who carry the heaviest burden of oppression. Repression has merely steeled a growing number of workers whose obstinate defiance knows no rigour. Students are not to be placated. Already open resistance for a wide range of groups has errupted with renewed vigour and resilience and there is no slowing down the peoples' movement. Worker strikes have increased since the lifting of martial law. Mused Ramon Midra, "The proper thing to do is to call a celebration, to feel as if martial law has indeed been lifted. The danger to Marcos starts when people begin behaving like free men.!"

Sources: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal Session in the Philippines.

Asian Week.

Solidaridad II.