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Thursday, 20 April 2006

GENUINE ECONOMIC REFORMS

Are you curious about which among the political parties aspiring for national leadership stands up and asserts fresh and progressive programs to effect meaningful change in the economy? True to form, most burgis parties and even pseudo-Left parties are so  intellectually bankrupt that they merely echo whatever economic programs from such agencies like the World Trade Organization, World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Since time immemorial, we dream of a Government that would:

1. Abrogate all legal treaties, agreements and instruments that chain our country economically to the foreign interests and all their local partners, and reject fraudulent and onerous loan agreements made by the government, including "aid" agreements that enlarge the already mounting foreign debt burden;

2. Encourage the people and the small and medium-scale entrepreneurs to build a self-reliant economy and at the same time confiscate foreign goods that depress or eliminate the local production of goods by patriotic Filipino citizens while urging the broad masses of the people to boycott imperialist businesses and consumer goods;

3. Outlaw all property gained through corrupt and criminal means;

4. Help improve the livelihood of workers, peasants, farm workers, fishermen and handicraftsmen by exercising price control and providing work for the unemployed; and organize the peasants, fishermen and handicraftsmen into elementary cooperative units (mutual aid teams and labor exchange systems) and support every movement for the economic emancipation of the people;

5. Compel the reduction of rent and interest rates towards the full abolition of rent, abolish exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous levies and establish a consolidated progressive tax, collecting a fair agricultural tax and also a fair business tax from the SMEs and large-scale enterprises;

6. Protect and encourage Filipino-owned commerce and industry by providing market guarantees, protection, credit and tax relief;

7. Support the national minorities in their fight against landlords, landlords, landgrabbers, mining companies, logging concessionaires and plantations; and

8. Safeguard the people's health and expand medical services.

Exactamento! These are the real reforms that the country desperately needs. Instead of privatizing, liberalizing and deregulating everything, these reforms would result in democratization of wealth,  easing burdens away from the majority, expand employment and rein in on the foreign monopolies and big business that have for many years falsely acted as if they are our real saviors.

For those curious about this list, these eight points come from the specific economic program of the Communist Party of the Philippines. The CPP adopted its economic program  on Dec. 26,  1968.

Almost four decades since that date, the program remains relevant and attuned to the needs and demands of the majority of the people. The Government would do well to consider these points. Otherwise, the CPP has every right to pursue these slowly but surely, starting from its territories, guerilla zones and base areas, and until they cover the whole archipelago.

This economic program is proof that the Left does not only seek to destroy the rotten economic system, but also build a new one that is self-reliant, equitable, fair and prosperous.

posted by: constantflux at 18:26 | link | comments (2) |


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#1  22 April 2006 - 14:00
 
what is to be done?
Anonymous
#2  30 August 2007 - 09:26
 
Why are you leftists too anti-foreigner? Do you think our country would survive without foreign help? The problem with our country is this: The government DOES NOT give subsidies toward local industries and agriculture. Governments like the United States and Members of the European Union give subsidies to their industries and Agricultural Sector. They actually give monetary support to the people working their asses off. Why the hell can't we compete with the EU and the US? the answer is plain and simple: Our farmers are poor and unsubsidized! Our industries are given little or No support! We have the Labor, we have the resources, yet we cannot compete in the Global Level because the government is doing too little in promoting the Philippines in a global level. The money which is supposed to be given as subsidy to the industrial and agricultural sectors is going directly to the pockets of unscrupulous politicians. I believe our products have the potential to compete with foreign goods, problem is that billions of pesos go to corruption.
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