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Statement of the International Migrants’ Alliance on the 2013 International Women’s Day
This shall be the call of the International Migrants’ Alliance (IMA) as we join the many working women around the world in commemorating the International Working Women’s Day this March 8, 2013.
We remember and continue to be inspired by the defiance of the women workers who fought for class and gender liberation when they struggled collectively against low wages, long working hours and oppressive working condition in the factories they worked in. Their defiance and struggle was what started and marked the International Working Women’s Day and it is what we aim to continue unto this day.
Interview with PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON,
Chairperson of International League of Peoples' Struggle
By D. L. MONDELO
Europe Correspondent, Bulatlat
- The Sulu sultanate was supposed to have ceded Sabah to the Republic of the Philippines in 1962. In the first place, how did the sultanate come to rule and own Sabah?
Jose Maria Sison: The Sulu sultanate had ruled and owned Sabah since 1704 when this was ceded by the Sultan of Brunei as reward to the Sultan of Sulu for helping him defeat his enemies. I presume the Sabah people of Mindanao ancestry, especially the Tausugs, Samals, Iranons and others, were the main political base of the Sulu sultanate in Sabah.
By GABRIELA
GABRIELA Alliance of Filipino Women condemns the murder of Barug Katawhan leader and typhoon Pablo survivor Christina Morales Jose by an unidentified motorcycle-riding assassin in Baganga, Davao Oriental around 6:00 PM on Monday, the 4th day of Women’s Month.
"We condemn the persistence of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines which claimed Jose as latest victim. The circumstances surrounding her murder is suggestive of the ways gunmen kill citizens who have been branded as enemies of the state for criticizing corrupt, unjust and inhumane government programs and policies.
By STUDENT NATIONAL FRONT
Stop the arrest of 31 peasants of Pandumaan Sipituhuta by the Subregional Police of Humbang Subregional Hasundutan, NorthSumatra!
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Once again, an agrarian conflict resulted in the arrest of the peasants who defend their land. Incense plantations covering 4100 hectares and forming part of “tanah adat” (land which use is regulated by traditional local law) which have been cultivated by local peasants were targeted to expand the Toba Pulp Lestari Company, owned by Sukanto Tanoto in the village of Sioituha Panumaan, Tollung District, Humbang Hasudutan, North Sumatra.
By Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights (Karapatan)
"Geertman’s death is state-perpetrated, it is a case of extrajudicial killing," said Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan, in reaction to the resolution issued by the Office of the City Prosecutor in San Fernando City, Pampanga on the killing of Dutch lay worker, Wilhelm Geertman.
The resolution on the preliminary investigation finds probable cause to file a Robbery with Homicide, and NOT MURDER charge against respondents Harold L. Dela Cruz, Marvin Marsan, et al.
By Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF)
“Let life be dead, but death must not be allowed to live” - Marx
Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) condemns the Indian government in the strongest possible terms for hanging Mohammad Afzal Guru at Tihar Jail this morning in a dastardly manner.
The process of his arrest, trial, his sentencing by the lower court and the upholding of the death sentence by the Supreme Court, the rejection of his petition to the president, denial of his right to a judicial review of this rejection, and finally his secret hanging – all point towards the farcical nature of Indian judiciary and the complicity of the entire present political system in persecuting political dissidents.
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