[Marxism] Philippines: Urban poor strongly represented in new socialist party | Links

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By *Peter Boyle*

Bulacan, Philippines, February 1, 2009 – "We are the bat people, the 
people who live under bridges in Manila", explained urban poor organiser 
Ka Lisa as she took a small group of international observers around a 
section of an urban poor relocation settlement in Bulacan, about 60 
kilometres north of Manila.

Since 2002, entire communities of urban poor people have been forcibly 
relocated to Bulacan from their "squatter" shanty homes in Manila to 
make way for never-to-be-completed rail and road developments ordered by 
the corrupt government of President Gloria Arroyo.

Full article at http://links.org.au/node/904

[Reihana Mohideen, a representative of the Power of the Masses Party 
(Partido Lakas ng Masa), will be a featured guest at the /World at a 
Crossroads/ conference, to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 10-12, 
2009, organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, Resistance and 
/Green Left Weekly/. Visit http://www.worldATACrossroads.org 
<http://www.worldatacrossroads.org/> for full agenda and to book your 
tickets.]

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