The recent revelations of former representative Zaldy Co implicating Marcos Jr. and other top officials of the reactionary regime have only validated the longstanding position of the national democratic forces: the rotten stench of bureaucrat capitalist system has its source in Malacañang. The attempts of the regime (and accommodated politicians from Akbayan and affiliated groups) to cover up the clear links to Marcos Jr. himself have proven entirely ineffective. As the commander-in-thief throws scapegoat after scapegoat under the proverbial bus to save his own skin, he is only digging a deeper ditch for himself to fall into.
The growing calls of broad segments of Philippine society to oust Marcos and the similarly-corrupt Sara Duterte reflects the long-standing clamor for fundamental changes in Philippine society. The explosive situation brought about by the current political crisis presents a clear challenge to revolutionary forces, including those belonging to the STEM sector: we must all grasp the situation firmly and with conviction to forward the national democratic aspirations of the Filipino people. The situation presents us with the opportunity to agitate, organize, and mobilize ever-increasing numbers of scientists, engineers, professionals, and students against bureaucrat capitalism, feudalism, and imperialism. It is exactly in these trying and volatile times that we can make tangible contributions to advancing the national democratic revolution.
Ousting the top two officials of the reactionary regime and calling for the imprisonment and persecution of all officials involved in corruption corresponds with the urgent clamor for accountability from the corrupt officials of the bureaucrat capitalist regime. More and more Filipinos have also come to reject the reactionary electoral process as the means to address corruption, and are now pushing to establish a national transition council in the wake of a successful ouster. Should this opportunity present itself, this council will become a new battleground to forward critical reforms in line with genuine agrarian reform, national industrialization, and other national democratic demands.
In the context of this ouster movement, we must consciously work to expand the membership of our revolutionary organization, and the ranks of the revolutionary movement as a whole. This is the surest way of sustaining the campaign to end government corruption, beyond the success or failure to oust Marcos and Duterte, and in the face of ongoing and future direct intervention by US imperialism. It is also in this way that we can help deepen the national democratic struggles within the confines of the legal struggles in the cities, by firmly linking it with the peasant mass movement and revolutionary armed struggle in the countryside.
The entire membership of LAB calls on all progressive STEM professionals and students to join the upcoming mass mobilizations pushing for genuine accountability and an end to the bureaucrat capitalist system. As the mass movement against corruption grows with each passing day, we must continue to forward the only real alternative to the rotten state of affairs of our country under imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism—national democratic revolution with a socialist perspective.
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