It was the bourgeois state’s intervention through its Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), under a union-busting “Assumption of Jurisdiction” provision that resulted in the Luisita Massacre. Calling for the resignation of the secretary of labor, Patricia Santo Tomas, and the intervention of the capitalist and landlord dominated Congress, as the popular-frontist BAYAN and the reformist social-democratic AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) are doing, will only go to waste.
Ang interbensyon ng estado sa pamamagitan ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), sa ilalim ng mapandurog ng unyon na probisyong “Assumption of Jurisdiction” ang nagresulta ng Luisita Masaker.