ESCALATING ANTI-FASCIST STRUGGLE WITH TOTAL RESISTANCE

ESCALATING ANTI-FASCIST STRUGGLE WITH TOTAL RESISTANCE

As the oppression laid by the totalitarian fascists continue to escalate, there lies the opportunity to resist through by any means necessarily, especially against the oppressive measures laid upon against the vast majority of people, particularly those who are against the system itself. Somehow it also shows that in every oppressive policy and action lies the opposition to increase its number to strengthen the anti-fascist struggle.

And upon the events continuing, from the disappearances to the extrajudicial killings, massacres laid against the innocent, reprisals rise forth by the ranks of the resisting people-avenging every fallen whether it is an activist or not, trying to accelerate total resistance through a series of offensives against the enemy. And somehow upon escalating resistance resulting damages to the enemy, safeguarding the innocents is strictly enforced in order to prevent casualties amongst them, during and after every offensives against the enemy.

We all know that the enemy has a variety of tactics in order to submit the entire population into their will, whether by hook or by crook, the enemy continues to do so; not noticing that their actions create total anger and tendency to escalate resistance as possible. Thus, as what I have both expect and said it intensifies the resistance as more and more people joined the ranks of the struggle as well as creating more and more reprisals that inflicts much of the enemy's strength and power.

In fact,

Upon writing this, the growing fascist oppression, laid by the government and its paramilitary cohorts courtesy of the warlords, tries to curb the popular resistance posing as threat to the rotten system in itself. For sure we heard about the oppression laid against political prisoners, of tortures, forced disappearances, and perhaps even massacres that, in a fascist perspective may curb the growing ranks of the opposition, despite violations that have made against the fundamental law of the land and its supporting laws, they insist in calling it as a means to curb the problems of "terrorism," "insurgency," "subversion," "treason," and even "disloyalty."

But despite all of these, oppression intensifies opposition, it intensifies both political and armed resistance as the anti-fascist opposition strengthens and grows its own bulwark courtesy of the people. As more and more victims hath drawn into the ranks and purging the ones who corrupt the struggle. And just like the former writeups I discussed through, more and more protests and armed conflicts may arise and continue though despite the enemy's attempts to curb-either by hook or by crook, by voice or by the gun!

Anyway,

This writeup states and shows the people's will to resist the monsters being laid in the days of oppression, for sure that there are countless mass strikes and armed ones rising against the fascist scum totally. And thus it is unbreakable, and stronger to endure the pain the enemy may give to them. And the absolute call of the people fighting?

FATHERLAND OR DEATH!

PEACE LAND AND BREAD!

DEATH TO THE FASCIST SCUM!

"PEACE, LAND, AND BREAD." ALL WITH "JUSTICE"

"PEACE, LAND, AND BREAD." ALL WITH "JUSTICE"

"Peace, land, and bread", these are the words being said by the Russian proletariat and the peasantry during the Russian Revolution. These words also signify a basic but absolute just call in a land suffered by strife, poverty, and hunger. And so was moral degeneration due to the harsh practises laid by ruling class against the majority.

In these words beings aid also lies an idea coming from the thoughts of every sayer in an entire event: "Justice." And why is that they indirectly call for that? Of shouting "Peace, land, and bread" as well as "Justice?" Justice does not mean justice for the martyrs, the oppressed or whatsoever, but a "revolutionary justice" that calls for a total victory of the majority over the few, of an end to their oppression and realization of basic calls in which the minority didn't give through.

Once, I read Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera (Founder of the Fascist group Falange)s "Bread and Justice," and it shows that he tries to imitate Lenin and the call of the people while preserving the "traditions" of the old order which was and is battered by the anger of the Spanish working class! For he was trying to "synthesize reactionary patriotism and revolutionary syndicalism that could benefit workers."

In his concept, Primo de Rivera, trying to imitate Lenin, speaks of an idea out of of his own mindset "a system neither capitalist nor communist," and yet the Spanish economy during the Falange-dominated Franco era was entirely "state capitalist," "militarist," and "conservative" that retains much of the reactionary system too contrary to the supposed "revolutionary" ideas of Falange-whose workers were entirely like cogs in the machinery of "militarist-dominated state production," the worse? "Only to gain corrupt practises within the military, and to curry favor with the ruling class like the old nobility, the reactionary inclined clergy, and even the imperialists who supported Spain's or rather say the Falange's anti-communist stance at that time.

And somehow, despite his own concept which was somewhat good, it does not mean that you don't need revolution to change a rotten society -since he, like any other right-wing personalities tried much to create an ideology to counter Marxism and its progressive ideas of its succeeding idea-concepts like Mao; and in a century where revolution is protracted and patriotism is progressive, it lies the same slogan what the Russians and other working class citizens of the world has spoken-this time being spoken again by the oppressed masses of today and not those people who advocates change but trying to negate class struggle, revolution, while at the same time imitating the ones who deals with it or even lives by looking at them,thinking of it as an opportunity and not joining in it! Remember: National unity does not mean unifying the nation, but rather unifying the oppressed majorities of the nation (Worker, peasant, intellectual) in order to counter the ones who rule driven by greed and oppression.

KATLEAH: DRAWINGS OF PUNK ROCK, METAL AND REVOLUTION

Katleah singing "Der Offene Aufmarsch" in a picketline-concert

Katleah Raising a toy AK-47 while singing a punk song in a picketline-concert

KATLEAH: DRAWINGS OF PUNK ROCK, METAL AND REVOLUTION

WRITING IN A WRONG TIME IN A RIGHT PLACE

WRITING IN A WRONG TIME IN A RIGHT PLACE

(WARNING: This writeup does not speak of defence, but rather out of analyzing the blog being written and creating a criticism out of it.)

Last time, I was browsing blogs in the computer when I found a blog that contains contradicting and red-bait ideas written on that said post. That blog seemed to be made very very very very last time that the writer, who made that post was seemed too "anti-red" that he even stressed his "anti-communist" ideas even in a murder scene that there are no communists involved.

In reading that blog post made by a blogger named "Vegan" last 24 of November 2009 4:02 PM, he spoke of red bait regarding the massacres in Maguindanao. Instead of tackling regarding the Maguindanao Massacre, he spoke of Digos Massacre, which was made last 1989, wherein the NPA made the mistake of killing 39 people on that said place. However, it was considered a mistake since the New People's Army, after that said error of killing innocents in that battle against the government, undergo rectification and of course, apologized for the mistake and ordered compensation.

But then,
How come that blogger tried much in reviving that case despite the group had undergone rectification and confessed their crimes to the people despite the topic was about Maguindanao? How come he talked about the NPA whilst the topic was about Ampatuan? Well... that writeup he have made becomes more of a red baiting to some people. And blaming the NPA seems that it shows how the writer was inaccurately making a writeup-since he's talking about the past wherein the mistakes being made like those of the massacre are being end up rectified as an error while the rest of the people are tuning on to the present-especially in blaming Ampatuan, the Civilian Volunteer Organization, his Private Army, and including the police and military backups as the perpetrator of the crimes, but he? blaming the NPA and insisting in Digos instead of the Maguindanao, along with calling the rebel group as Terrorists, Bandits, and of some sort-just like Ampatuan who, while in prison desparately blamed the MILF for the massacre!

In addition to that,
How come he need to call derogatory words and ideas against them? for he, According to his post:
"Aside from killing civilians opposed to them, they have also ventured into numerous criminal activities like extortion and blackmail, kidnappings and abductions, robbery, violence, intimidation and threats, harassment of locals, persecution of even tourist, raids, and so forth in order to get the money to buy needed supplies weapons and provide for their own families and their unjust cause."
Perhaps he's talking about the rejectionist Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB) who back then one of the special forces of the New People's Army before being expelled (Due to its errors and of its criminally-motivated tactics) and became a bandit group in a guise of a political armed force whom he had said, or even the Abu Sayyaf whose banditry seemed compatible on what he have said. These two groups somehow are too different from the NPA, the MNLF and the MILF for they are rebel groups who also joined in peace talks with the enemy, who knows the articles of war and even humanitarian law unlike those two who are really bandits.

How about this?
Will it take another “Digos Massacre” for the people to act? It has happen already again (2009-11-23), this time it’s known as the Maguindanao Massacre! The fight against the CPP-NPA is not solely the duty of the government. It is the duty of every freedom-loving Filipinos who abhor violence and value justice. If the people will not provide even vocal support, the effort to defeat the rebel-turned bandits will be futile.
Fine! For sure being an anti-communist tends to speak of that although the topic seemed too different. Remember the NPA was out of that Maguindanao massacre scene although he insists on speaking it against them, And in fact I expect a person who likes to divert ideas much and trying to connect the past with the present tragedies, and somehow few will hear and understand his ideas while the rest will think of it as a desparate writer of the past.

Well...
That is what I am expecting, since Ampatuan blamed the MILF, that person blames the NPA! And blaming the NPA for the Ampatuan massacre seemed to be a too desperate attempt for red-baiting and other tactics against a group who were not involved in the scene of the crime. And using the Digos error as a proof? How desperate-for he's writing in a wrong time in a right place, remember this was not 1989, this is 2009; the scene was in Maguindanao not on Davao and lastly, the perpetuator was a warlord not a rebel!



For analysis: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/feedback/11/24/09/re-regarding-massacre-maguindanao

Analyzing "Voltes V" and its alleged "subversiveness"

Analyzing "Voltes V" and its alleged "subversiveness"

When we were young, we enjoy watching good shows, and one good example is Japanese-made Animation. And for quite some time, we remember every show being broadcasted in the boob tube, one of which was Voltes V.

Voltes V, in laymen's idea is a mecha-anime featuring a robot coming from five different vehicles manned by five well trained pilots fighting against the enemies of the human race. But then, that Anime, according to Wikipedia, also narrates the heroic exploits of the young robot pilots known as The Voltes Team and their trials against alien invaders from the planet Boazan. Armed with the Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V, the five pilots drive back the invaders one Beast Fighter at a time. The series is different from typical super robot anime of the time in that it illustrates human sentimentality and common values, with underlying themes such as the love of family, equality, selfless sacrifice, team work, and patriotism.

However,
Voltes V is not just a mere anime as what the children and the once children think of, since Voltes V is in fact a work that has a heavy revolutionary undertone. For sure the series ends with Voltes V's or rather say the "revolutionary nobleman" Baron Hrothgar's spectacular counterattack on planet Boazan to liberate the slaves from the oppression of tyrannical ruler, Emperor Zu Zambajil. And some information said that the creator of that said anime, Tadao Nagahama, was influenced by the French Revolution, taking the theme of enslaved population rising up to overthrow an aristocracy.

But according to me, a once avid watcher of that anime and having a DVD of that show, Voltes V shows the attempt to create an agitative propaganda using futurism, science fiction and of course, animation. Nagahama may have taken the French Revolution, but he seemed that he's using a Russian one than of a french one, for Boazanian society was sort of between feudal and capitalist one, since technology and serfdom were the bases of economy on that anime; and the ones affected, especially the unhorned class, out of years of oppression wanted a drastic change to end that ancient situation-using revolution as a type of action as what the creator Nagahama think of, and perhaps I need to thank him for revolutionizing and even his attempt for politicizing anime using science fiction and his creation Voltes V-that made Ferdinand Marcos banned it "due to its violent actions that may harm the children."

And since I speak of Marcos' ban on Voltes V during the martial law era, he banned it "because of excessive violence" and also states that due to cartoons such as this may affect children in their education. But in fact, despite his reason, it was really because of its subversive themes-as the Philippines during his era was in turmoil, as widespread protests and the growth of the National Democratic movement and his so-called 'imminent danger' made the late president declare Martial Law "to save democracy." But how come Voltes V was included in the list? Why was that anime being banned for showing? Just because of "violence?" Or rather "Its subversive messages?" And even having the channel where the anime being shown surpassed other two government-owned TV stations?

Well...
Some said that the show could be used by activists, especially from the National Democratic movement might also use it as a visual tool, an example to create another kind of protest a la First Quarter Storm and the Diliman Commune, and its scenes may use it as an example of a class struggle with a socialist perspective, and it includes the freeing the "slave" class in the Philippines. And somehow Nagahama really admired his work same as the others didn't notice that his work, a product of revolution, was in tune with the political atmosphere of the Philippines during the 1970's and thus could not have patterned his characters & his story as allusions to the mentioned Philippine leaders or to the troubled political situation of the country at the time. Remember Amado Guerrero's Philippine Society and Revolution? Somehow the anime's description of Boazania seemingly slightly similar to the Philippine society according to his desciption, and perhaps, Voltes V would be better if Amado Guerrero helped Nagahama for the story proper to mirror the realities clearly, or rather say a good teaching tool for a revolution as the story goes more revolutionary than science fiction, for agitation than recreation!

And as Voltes V unleashed its revolutionary theme, it shows that how society despite its modernity, remains backward; as V.I Lenin tend to call imperialism (with Boazania as example) as a highest stage of rotten-ripe capitalism, or rather say an instigator for a future "corporate feudalism" or "neo-feudalism", as capitalism continues to accumulate and propagate its outmost rottenness thanks to the countries of a developing type who supported the imperialists and its policies. And at the same time, People who are deeply oppressed for years in that kind of society may have tried to think of this: to think of change by any means necessary-including a call for armed struggle as what Baron Hrothgar (Ned Armstrong) wanted, from the creation of rifles to the rebels to the creation of Voltes V as a means for liberation; in short- a backward society needs a revolution.

Perhaps people may misunderstood this kind of writeup, especially to those who didn't know that Voltes V's message is more of change to the society and love of people, especially to the creators of the society; and instead of thinking of it as a show which was and is enjoying, an eye candy for them, for in the end people may understand what Voltes V and other "subversive" literary pieces really speaks of-as what Thomas Jefferson said:
"a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

AFTER THE GENOCIDE

AFTER THE GENOCIDE

Last November 23, a terrible genocide was happened in the Warlordom of Maguindanao. All of us were terribly shocked as this gorious event made this entire nation not just in a state of mourning but also in a state of danger that still continues to haunt us.

But then,
Last November 5, days after that said event, the government, in pursuit of keeping the entire Warlordom under control as well to protect their vested interests, declared martial law and immediately mobilized the armed forces despite having no rebellion in that said territory. For sure what we expect in the television was of buried weapons as well as hiding "enemy" combatants instead of a massive revolt around it, so what's the reason behind martial law? For sure as what I have said-of protecting interests by using military force with an alibi of "having enemies around" especially in an island famous for its insurgency.

For sure the rest of the people are quite thinking regarding this so-called crisis. Some tend to say that "it is better to have martial law to bring swift justice" while some tend to oppose "in order not to repeat the past wherein Marcos used it "to save the nation from imminent danger out of a year long insurgency and of some sort" but in reality "of brutal tortures, disappearances, of murders, out of 'disciplining the people'." But the rest? Remained apathetic and instead bannering the thought of individualism by saying "change comes from ourselves!" Well... sounds really apathetic to the society!

But on the other side of the story lies false flag attempts in order to pave way for a real martial law int eh Philippines. And activists tend to say that martial law is unofficial due to the same Marcos-like events the government did despite having a law wherein civilian power must be at all times greater-like military interferences, of abridging school's autonomy like those in PUP wherein the military entered its campus despite the LFS-Enrile Agreement (which states that soldiers not to enter the campus), of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances, these shows that the martial-law remnants are still deeply rooted in this society! And somehow the government, courtesy of the administration may state the most means to declare martial law as possible, out of every false flag attempts a la Enrile's ambush, Plaza Miranda bombing, or even the Maguindanao Massacre too (as what the murderer Ampatuan said that it was the MILF and not he who started the entire mess.) and the MILF-led ambush against the now imprisoned warlord.

But still,
People remained apathetic despite listening the news regarding the events after the mess. Will they continue being drowned by the flow of their own vices and of their so-called ambitions? Then getting shocked on an headline declaring the entire nation after Maguindanao under martial law? Well... 'God' sees anything around this nation, but waits its outcome as the government, courtesy of Arroyo administration do something fishy after the genocide.

Blood in Her Hands

Blood in Her Hands*
by Inday Espina-Varona

At a time when even war itself strives to be humane, the carnage that killed 57 people in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, shocked people beyond words, not only because of the scale and brutality of the attacks but also because the targets had been unarmed: political supporters who were out to file a nomination for the upcoming elections and journalists who were out to cover the story.

That high-powered firearms were used against the victims at close range, obliterating the faces and the identity of many of them, and that there was an attempt to systematically cover up the crime, points to a culture of impunity in Maguindanao.

The perpetrators obviously thought that they could get away with their atrocity. The only possible explanation for such impunity is that these people were confident somebody higher up would protect them.


We hold the regime of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo accountable for what happened in Ampatuan. It was her regime that had benefited from the reign of terror in Maguindanao. It was her regime that had encouraged and nurtured the violence that led to the massacre.

It was her regime that circumvented the constitutional ban on private armies by issuing Executive Order 546 in 2006 that allowed local officials to become warlords. It was this EO that legalized the arming of so-called civilian volunteers that not only serve as thugs to abusive officials but also go after insurgents and became the military's instrument to stifle dissent and harass people.

It was her regime that, desperate to cling to power, had benefited from the massive vote buying and election cheating in Maguindanao in the 2004 and 2007 elections. This is the reason Arroyo, amid calls for justice for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre, could not move swiftly against the monster she had created.

The Ampatuan massacre crossed so many lines. It was an assault on press freedom. It was an assault on the people's democratic, civil and political rights. It was an assault on women. It was an assault on the basic right to live, which has often been trampled upon with impunity in different parts of the country.

The people in Maguindanao have been silenced by this reign of terror and have long been deprived of a choice of leaders. This reflects what is happening in the entire country, where the Arroyo regime, hounded by questions of legitimacy, had unleashed terror under its Oplan Bantay Laya program to stifle criticism and legitimate dissent.

It is the same administration that had brushed aside the extrajudicial killings of activists and had, instead, publicly praised and promoted military officials known for their records of human right-abuses.

As the circus that marks elections in the Philippines threatens to steal our attention away from the Ampatuan massacre, we join the call of our colleagues for an independent investigation and a separate court to try this case. We also call for the dismantling of all private armies, which have been sowing terror in the communities, and not only during election time.

As investigators leave the scene of the massacre to bring the cases against the perpetrators to court, as the bodies of our slain colleagues are buried, as we seethe in outrage and as we grieve, let us not put the issue to rest.

Until justice is served, let us not forget.


*This is an editorial drafted by Davao Today, published in Bulatlat. Other progressive news organizations have been requested to publish this as part of a campaign to assign accountability and attain justice for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre.