Expect more actions from those protests
The recent protest actions hath exposed the administration its failure to take into action its supposed promises.
By not heeding the call of the striking workers in Nutriasia, it showed its half-hearted intent to put an end to regularisation and to support their plight in their unjust working conditions; by being aloof at the clamour of the farmers at Cavite and some other provinces, it shows the regime favouring those of the landed despots keeping their interests despite promises to push further agrarian reform and rural development; and by threatening the urban poor over those abandoned houses with gunfire, shows how the regime fails to resolve homelessness and means to uplift living standards.
And despite all the struggles in every corner slanderers in various forms may continue to make hell towards those whom took that direct action. Perhaps because they see those direct actions as disorderly and seditious, of course they would rally on the side of order no matter what it is deemed unjust but "benefits" them with some piecemeal "changes". "Right or wrong" as one may say- as they chose to support an order even at the expense of the common folk. One would even described the groups as paid hacks, often used the distorted if not false reports to justify that those who struggle are indeed paid hacks without even investigating. The recent occupation of abandoned houses by an urban poor group is one example, they've been slandered that false reports been churned such as those so-called 'leaders' who actually lumpens trying to make profit in the struggle of the homeless, or those who failed to see collective efforts out of selfish intents; so is the recent strike actions led by the workers of Nutriasia at Bulacan and the farmers in Cavite as hindrance to capitalist-oriented "progress and development", with the former deemed as mere contractuals-turned-rabblerousers and latter as meant to be evicted for squatting.
Quite usual isn't it? For living in a proletarian nation like the Philippines these actions did provoke fear and tremor on the side of order; way back before a commentator expressed that a social volcano awaits to explode as crises brought waves of actions pointing against the ones who sworn to uphold and protect. And as in the past, it is really expecting that the regime as becoming same as its own predecessors- as it swears to upheld an oppressive status quo, and from it this diminishes their promise of change and upliftment for the common people whom voted for months ago. how the system, in keeping the interests of landed gentries and of big businesses sneered the common folk with promises of reforms and inclusive development- when in fact these consolidates their footholds at the expense of the oppressed masses.
From this then no wonder why protest actions happen- regardless of all the slanders, a wave of strikes is deemed possible throughout as these controversial topics of homelessness, contractualisation, unjust labor conditions, increased cost of living, low wages, and subservient to interests, continue to prevail regardless of their promise of reform in an actually existing semifeudal-semicolonial order.