- Details
-
Category: Youth
-
Published: Tuesday, 16 February 2016 18:51
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) calls on the entire Filipino people, including those overseas, to mobilize and generate the maximum possible emergency funds and supplies for the victims of the recent supertyphoon Yoland (international name Haiyan).
An estimated nine million people, or 10% of the entire Filipino population suffered the wrath of the storm considered to be the strongest in recorded history, which barreled through 36 or 72 provinces. Majority of the victims of the storm are small peasants, farm workers, fisherfolk, mountain people, workers and other poor people who are the most vulnerable to the storm. Wide swathes of land were engulfed by the surging seas resulting in massive destruction of public infrastructure, homes, property and agricultural land. It is feared that the number of deaths may run up to several thousand people.
The revolutionary forces under the CPP commiserate with the entire Filipino people, especially those who lost friends and family members and who are suffering from the grave impact.
Read more ...
- Details
-
Category: Youth
-
Published: Tuesday, 16 February 2016 18:51
The fundamentally exploitative and ruthless nature of capitalism is daily illustrated in the most direct fashion for all to see – except for those who choose not to see… and who would have us believe that this is as good as it gets - perhaps with a bit of gentle tweaking here and there, writes CP chair Bill Greenshields.
In casting 1800 shipbuilding workers on to the scrap heap BAE explained that it was a matter of regret but perfectly normal in times of a “significant decline in demand”. In doing so they held it to be perfectly normal that they have no responsibility towards the people who have been producing their profits year on year, decade on decade. And they were right. Capitalism and its monopoly and transnational corporations have no such responsibility.
Their workers are a source of profit pure and simple. When their labour power is not required they, their families and communities are abandoned. And if those workers show resentment or even anger, they are encouraged by the company, politicians, media moguls and twitterers to blame fellow workers in another shipyard, another workplace, another town, another country… some of whom have, for the time being at least, kept their job.
Read more ...