From the Website of PRWC CPP-NPA-NDFArticle links: https://cpp.ph/statement/the-cause-of-the-transport-sector-is-a-cause-of-the-exploited-class/
The cause of the transport sector is a cause of the exploited class
The
monopoly of the ruling class of big bureaucrat-comprador bourgeoisie
such as the families of Villar, Sy, Aboitiz ang Pangilinan are the ones
who will benefit from PUV modernization. This is along the neoliberal
policy of the Philippine economy where the inutile reactionary
government abandoned its full responsibility of basic social services
like the transport sector.
Despite
the responsibility of the government to ensure a safe, efficient, cheap
and reliable transport service, it pushed for a devious “modernization”
of PUVs as pretext of the Duterte’s reactionary government and
Department of Transportation (DOTr) full hand over of the transport
sector to big private corporations that will eradicate the livelihood of
drivers, submerge them in debt and devastate small operators in the
name of super profits.
The
conditions of the transportation sector worsened still with the
anti-poor policies, regulations and guidelines of the DOTr/LTFRB in
favor of the monopoly of bus companies particularly here in Negros.
Furthermore the unceasing hike of oil prices under the deregulation
policy while prices of basic goods are skyrocketing. Yet, wages of sugar
workers in cane fields and mills and other sectors have not increased.
The
DOTr and LTFRB responds to the resounding clamor of workers and small
operators with fascism. They threaten them with the revocation of
driver’s licences and the operators’ franchises to quell and foil their
legitimate struggle. Clearly, the Duterte regime is only for the big
capitalist comprador bourgeoisie and land lords. The ardent voices and
movement of the drivers, operators, federations and other democratic
sectors is justified in fighting against any form of the anti-poor PUV
“modernization”. The cause of the transportation sector will also be the
cause of the exploited classes of workers, peasants, fisherfolk, urban
poor, youth and students, professionals, businessmen, church people and
other democratic forces.###
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CPP/NPA/NDF Website
Article links:
https://cpp.ph/statement/the-cause-of-the-transport-sector-is-a-cause-of-the-exploited-class/
https://cpp.ph/statement/the-cause-of-the-transport-sector-is-a-cause-of-the-exploited-class/
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