Pax Silica
The U.S. initiative to control the global AI supply chain--spanning from resource mining, to processing, to assembly, to data centers.
What is Pax Silica?
A semi-colonial nation in Southeast Asia that is strategically valuable for US imperialism to control, due to the nation's wealth of natural resources & proximity its geopolitical rival (China).
What is the Philippines?
An economic system where an imperialist power preserves feudal relations (landlords & peasants) to prevent industrialization, so that the imperialists can exploit the nation's resources & cheap labor.
What is semi-feudalism?
When politicians run the govt. like a business, so they can enrich themselves with the people's money.
What is Bureaucrat Capitalism?
This revolutionary project seeks to overthrow imperialism, feudalism, & bureaucrat capitalism in the PH and establish a new democratic society led by workers & peasants.
What is the National Democratic Revolution?
Critical resources the PH is rich in, which are necessary for the US to secure in order to produce AI chips/semi-conductors.
What are minerals (copper, cobalt, nickel, etc.) & rare earth elements?
The reason why the US is using Pax Silica to secure the supply chains necessary for manufacturing AI weaponry.
What is war with China?
A type of economy that, due to low industrial capacity, must sell its resources to highly developed industrial nations who can manufacture finished goods & sell these products back to the PH.
What is an import-dependent, export-oriented economy?
Filipinos have been taxed hundreds of billions of pesos in order to fund these kinds of projects. The result? Thousands of nonexistent/incomplete projects—the result of bureaucrat capitalists swiping the $$ directly into their own pockets.
What are flood control projects?
This program seeks to end landlord domination of the countryside by giving land to those who actually till it, while transforming the rural economic relations that keep millions of Filipino peasants impoverished.
What is genuine agrarian reform?
Though the US-Marcos regime claims Pax Silica will bring economic prosperity to the PH people, it is these entities that will actually reap the benefits of this "so-called development".
What are US corporations & bureaucrat capitalists?
Areas in the PH where labor laws are kept extremely minimal--leaving workers underpaid, overworked, & unable to unionize--all to entice foreign multinational corporations to do business there.
What are Special Economic Zones (SEZ)?
Failing to industrialize leaves millions of PH people unemployed at home & the nation as a whole in desperate need of money, leading to this policy in the PH.
What is the Labor Export Policy?
This practice allows the government and military to label activists, organizers, journalists, & others as terrorists/enemies of the state, putting them at risk of harassment, surveillance, arrest, & death.
What is red-tagging?
This revolutionary alliance brings together numerous organizations representing workers, peasants, women, youth, Indigenous peoples, and other sectors in the struggle for national democracy in the Philippines.
What is the NDFP?
The region of the PH where a 4000 acre "AI-native Industrial Hub" is set to be built--which will displace countless peasants + indigenous folks & cause widespread ecological destruction.
What is the Luzon Economic Corridor?
While its claimed that the Philippine Senate evicted all US military bases in 1991, this unequal treaty allows the US to continue operating 9 de facto military bases in the PH.
What is the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)?
The process of mass-developing domestic industry in the PH--so that it can process its own raw materials into finished goods--providing jobs & allowing the PH to benefit off the wealth of its resources.
What is national industrialization?
This institution serves as the principal military force of the PH state, taking in billions of US $$ to carry out counterrevolutionary repression, including red-tagging, surveillance, & mass violence against activists & revolutionary forces.
What is the AFP?
A revolutionary strategy for a weaker force to defeat a stronger state by building mass support & developing liberated areas in the countryside--gradually encircling the enemy over a prolonged period.
What is protracted people's war?