Onward the Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform; Resist Imperialist Plunder and War

Because of the major problem of landlessness and the peasants’ unrelenting clamor for land and rural justice, the Philippine government has been implementing bogus agrarian reform programs since the 1930s. In line with the agenda of the United States in the Philippines, most of these programs encouraged modifications in tenancy relations, and resettlement in Mindanao and Palawan where land was still abundant. Such programs had to boost productivity and expand the area planted to export crops that were needed for the US market.