May 1, 2026
Fight for our Just Wage, Livelihood & Freedom! March for Socialism and Down with US Imperialism!
The COMPATRIOTS-NDFP, the underground revolutionary movement of overseas Filipinos joins the workers of the world in the struggle to defeat imperialism and to ensure a socialist future for humanity. As workers and migrants, we are both exploited and oppressed. We continue to leave under the shackles of capital. Thus, on the occasion of the first of May, the day of protest of the workers of all countries, we fight for our rights and freedom!
The migrants and diaspora are the most oppressed members of the working class. Aside from the oppression and exploitation that they experience from their employers, they are doubly oppressed by the host countries that discriminate them and deprive them of social protection, labor rights, and access to justice enjoyed by citizens. This is most pronounced among undocumented and precarious migrants and diaspora.
In the home country where they came from, they are plagued by landlessness, lack of jobs in a decrepit backward economy, lack of social protection and a government that sees migrants as commodities to be sold overseas to earn dollars under the Labor Export Program of all the regimes from Marcos Sr in 1974 to Marcos Jr in the present and source of cheap labor for the monopoly capitalist.
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The oppression and exploitation of Migrants at home and abroad is rooted in the backward semi-colonial and semi-feudal economy in the Philippines under the US Imperialist yoke. When the country was colonized by the United States in 1899, they ensured that the Philippines would remain a backward rural economy, with no genuine national industry, to allow the unhampered access of cheap labor for the US big business and the plunder of the minerals and natural resources of the land. This order of things persists even under neo-colonial rule because the country has been ruled by US puppets, the big bourgeoisie compradors, the big landlord class, and the bureaucrat capitalists.
The recent scandals on the flood control, suitcases filled with billions of pesos, undeclared wealth and SALN, and hidden budget allotments, only reveal the putrid nature of the ruling classes and bureaucrat capitalists who run the country headed by Marcos Jr, the son of the fascist dictator and plunderer Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
To remain in power and to fight the growing people’s resistance, the US-Marcos Jr regime and its foreign US Imperialist master, embark on a massive fascist war against the people like the Massacre in Toboso, Negros of 19 April 2026, the bombing and the assault on civilian targets including children in Mindoro at the start of the year.
The fascist attack intensifies as the anger of the people run high due to the oil price hike, increasing prices of goods and services, lack of jobs and income, lack of social support under the ruling system. With the escalating US imperialist war on Iran, the impact on the whole country is being sharply felt by the workers and urban poor in the cities and by the farmers and farm workers in the countryside.
As overseas Filipinos, we should unite with the workers and peasants and participate in the National Democratic Revolution in the Philippines to uproot the evils that cause the semi-colonial and semi-feudal character of the Philippine society and defeat US Imperialism. We should unite with the local workers in the host country and the workers of the world and together, we fight against US Imperialism and all reaction that continue to exploit and oppress workers and the toiling masses.
On the first of May 2026, let our voices be heard in unison with the workers and oppressed peoples of the world.
Workers Unite! Liberate the Workers and Defeat US Imperialism!
Fight for National Liberation and Socialism!
Onward with the People’s Democratic Revolution in the Philippines!
Long Live COMPATRIOTS – NDFP!
Long Live the National Democratic Front of the Philippines!
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