Let us move towards fundamental change!
Even while the resignation of the 11 Cabinet members and their calling for the succession of Kabayan Noli to the presidency may be tinged with perceptions of just making virtue out of necessity, especially in as much as GMA had already previously asked for their resignation, Partido ng Manggagawas Renato Ka Rene Magtubo today welcomed such development as favorable for the eventual ouster of the already lameduck president.
Ka Rene, however, tagged as too little, too late their resignations even as he deplored as anti-people what the resigned Cabinet members advocated as the Constitutional process of transition with Kabayan Noli taking over. In a previous statement, Ka Rene already declared that the seating Vice-President was also a beneficiary of the same fraudulent elections that contingently installed GMA.
The point, Ka Rene stressed, is that it is the system which is rotten to the core, even as it is hand-in-glove with the US-engineered globalization, deregulation and liberalization the current characteristics of old-day imperialism.
The resignation of Cabinet members and their changeovers, alongside even the succession of Noli into the presidency would not be enough. The pulse of the streets and the fields is for a radical transformation of the whole infrastructure, including the alignment of the government along the democratic interest of the broad populace.
The Constitutionally-defined process which prescribes a Noli succession is not pro-people. It would only be no more than a changing of horses for the foreign interests which dominate the Philippine scene. What is needed is a politico-economic shake-up for collective, sustainable development; and not one of the same rotten system which will just further the continuance of foreign and elite dominance.
That is why we have long been pushing for a Transitional Revolutionary Government (TRG) because that is the hard lesson of both EDSA 1 and EDSA 2. When we only effect change at the top, the bottom remain as powerless as ever, even worse off than where they were before such EDSAs.
Like GMA, Noli has no credibility and trust with the populace, especially in so far as his skills for governance are concerned. Only the elite favor a GMA to Noli hand-over because that would be least disruptive to the dominance of the elite. Because with Noli at the helm, the same policies of subservience to global interests will surely be perpetuated. There would not be any change in the neo-liberal mold of governance which has brought unprecedented damage to the domestic economies but also untold miseries to the people.
It is, however, good enough for the resigned Cabinet members that they have gotten out of the ever-shrinking orbit of authoritative rule by GMA. On the other hand, they have not yet gone beyond the habits of thought of neo-liberalism which have been fundamentally responsible for the state of continuing stagnation of our economic life, Ka Rene opined even as he invited them to join the ranks of civil society calling for fundamental change.###
