Canada Permits Agents from the Philippines to Operate in Canada
Demonstration
in Manila September 21, 2024 condemning oppressive
policies of
Marcos
Jr regime on occasion of 52 years since the declaration
of
Martial Law.
The government of Canada is permitting agents of the reactionary Philippine state to operate in Canada. While they are drumming up support for the U.S.-sponsored Marcos-Duterte regime in the upcoming mid-term elections, they are also "red-tagging" progressive forces in Canada as the Marcos-Duterte regime is doing in the Philippines where there is widespread persecution of those fighting for peace, independence and democracy. The forces of reaction in the Philippines are desperate to crush the people's movement for national and social liberation and to drive the U.S. imperialists and other foreign powers out of their country. The agents of the U.S.-backed Philippine state in Canada are doing the dirty work of the U.S. and its stooges in the Philippines to justify the further militarization of the country in the name of security and progress, to turn the Philippines into a forward staging ground for a U.S.-NATO war of aggression against China in the Asia Pacific region, embroiling and endangering the Filipino and peoples of the region.
TML salutes the heroic Philippine resistance and the thousands of Filipino youth and patriots from all walks of life who have been martyred in the struggle against the repression of the U.S.-sponsored Philippine state and the tens of thousands who take the place of the fallen to advance the movement for sovereignty and national liberation. TML calls on Canadians to condemn the Canadian state for providing visas for these foreign agents and for its support of Canadian companies whose actions in the Philippines harm the people and the environment. This support exposes Canada's self-serving propaganda about foreign interference in Canada when, in deeds, Canada fully supports foreign interference if it serves narrow private interests. The bogey man of foreign interference is used to divide the people and silence opposition to people fighting for their rights. It reveals that the Canadian state's propaganda about foreign interference is aimed also at disrupting the movement of the people fighting for their rights and opposing what is unacceptable at home and abroad.
The Canadian state supports mining and resource monopolies which steal the natural assets of the Filipino people, particularly resources belonging to the Indigenous Peoples, causing environmental degradation and economic dislocations that feed directly into the Labor Export Policy of the Philippine state. This is the name given to the human trafficking in which Canada is a willing accomplice. In Canada, migrant workers, guest workers and immigrants from the Philippines face further abuse and exploitation. They are underpaid and denied dignified working and living conditions. The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) continues to stand with the Communist Party of the Philippines and the people of the Philippines, as well as with the Filipino national minority in Canada. They are an integral part of the Canadian working class fighting for justice, rights and human dignity.
Canada must stop supporting the subversion of the struggle of the Filipino people for national liberation, independence and peace!
This article was published in
Volume 54
Number 9 - September 2024
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/Articles/M5400913.HTM
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