SANLAKAS MILITANTLY
SALUTES HRONLINE FOR A VIRTUAL YEAR OF PROPAGATING DEMOCRACY WITH SOCIAL
JUSTICE AND FOR DEFENDING OUR PEOPLE’S RIGHTS!
30 March 2012
SANLAKAS
warmly extends a clench-fisted militant salute to HROnline on the
occasion of your 1st Anniversary and for having raised and waved high
the banner of progressive unity in the frontlines of mass struggle for
one year now! We do so as a show of proud solidarity with HROnline’s
dedicated and principled cadre of human rights defenders. We do so with
respect just twelve months after HROnline successfully launched a new
cyber-battlefront in defense of human rights in the Philippines and
across the world.
We
fully recognize that HROnline has clearly proven itself to be an
effective social-political platform that courageously propagates the
broad progressive struggle for genuine social change. We can surely see
this in the way HROnline has been able to act as a virtual campaigns
contact-point which allows for a wide range of progressive organizations
and individuals to come together in a concerted effort. In a sense,
HROnline is also a ‘progressive forces projection-multiplier’ that can
link up, magnify and re-echo the progressive mass movement’s agenda via
the bourgeois-controlled mass media and to also develop alliances with
other interested sectors and entities in the Philippine social-political
arena. Thus, in recognition of this very important accomplishment, we
in SANLAKAS wish to encourage HROnline to continue to develop this
ground-breaking pathway and to even raise higher the potential level of
coordination among various progressive forces.
In
fact, HROnline’s just and honorable cause is not only shining a bright
light on the many other progressive mass campaigns and struggles of
today. It is also helping to serve the progressive mass movement with a
critically vital component in relation to
educating-organizing-mobilizing both the organized forces and the basic
masses. Thus, HROnline helps to enhance and further develop the
collective capacity of our general struggle in order to be able to one
day overturn and change the ruling system, in unity with the broad
working-class masses. Its ultimate outcome must be to favor the 99%
social majority.
Indeed,
it can only be a revolutionary mass struggle that must and can win this
fight for genuine systemic change. Its principled objective is to
inevitably pave the way forward to socialism as an egalitarian
social-economic system that does not exploit nor oppress other fellow
human beings in society. Yet for now, we must first collectively and
concretely advance a universal war to essentially liberate all of
humanity from all forms of oppression and exploitation on the basis of
general democratic reforms. This means carrying forward a democratic
struggle for structural reforms and aimed at eventually destroying and
crushing the main pillars of capitalist exploitation and oppression as
the root cause of systemic mass poverty in present-day Philippine
society. Nevertheless, this struggle must also be pursued on an
international scale if it is to be victorious because capitalism is a
globalized system and hence, its systemic replacement must also be of a
global nature.
And
so it is, that our joint forces are now truly engaged in a global war
of liberation to uphold, to protect and to defend all human rights for
all. Definitely, this necessitates the formation of mass resistance
fronts in all countries of the world to combat the worldwide camp of
hegemony, especially that one led by US imperialism and its reactionary
puppet-states (i.e. the PNoy Regime in the Philippines).
The
economically and socially destructive domination and control of the
international system by US imperialism today can be seen and felt in
terms of the dangerous and deadly massive human rights violations
worldwide. These outcomes are a direct result of the US imperialist-led
neoliberal economic imposition and dictations, political maneuverings to
ensure pro-US regime changes and ultimately, the subjugation of
anti-imperialist states through wars of aggression. All of these are the
basic elements of the US foreign policy framework aimed at absolutely
securing puppet-agent states, market protection and expansion, sustained
oil supplies and other strategic resources, and forward force
projection through military bases, visiting forces-type agreements and
other related defense arrangements.
In
order to systematically and institutionally attain its imperialist
objectives, the US and its international agents will never hesitate to
violate any and all the key provisions of the international bill of
human rights. Ever since 1948, all Philippine governments have
continuously violated and stepped on the principles and provisions of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the
many other human rights-based instruments reflective of universal norms
and values that uphold and protect the human rights of all the peoples
of the world. This is clearly witnessed in the unabated number of HRVs,
such as: warrantless arrests, torture, enforced disappearances,
state-sponsored assassinations, and also unfair labor practices and
non-compliance with accepted economic and social standards.
So
long as this globalized system of human rights violations continue on a
massive scale all the genuinely sincere individuals and progressive and
revolutionary Left forces shall have to continue on the fight for
systemic change. And in this unjust environment, HROnline, SANLAKAS and
all other organizations still active within the progressive mass
movement will need to carry on our combined struggle until genuine
social change is finally achieved for the social benefit and welfare of
all.
Lastly,
in total recognition of this, SANLAKAS confidently expresses its
admiration for HROnline’s very good and highly positive work in
strengthening and propagating our shared vision for a truly
people-centered society premised on full democratic freedoms with social
justice. And as we further encourage you to continue on with this noble
fight, we now convey to our HROnline comrades that SANLAKAS shall also
continue to firmly stand beside you and to resolutely march with you in
our united struggles to build a truly free, democratic and socially just
world order in the near future.
