Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP)
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Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is a nationwide federation composed of organizations of
landless peasants, small farmers, farmworkers, subsistence fisherfolk, peasant women and rural youth. It has effective leadership over a total of 800,000 rural people comprising roughly 9%
of the Philippine agricultural labor force. It has 55 provincial
and 6 regional chapters nationwide.
Recognized as the most militant peasant federation in the
Philippines and cited to be one among the most significant peasant movements in Asia, KMP advocates and struggles for:
KMP carries out painstaking organizing and education work
among the peasantry as an important requisite to building a
strong and mass-based organization. It employs various forms of
struggle ranging from simple court actions and lobby work to mass
mobilizations such as nationwide strikes and protest actions.
Alliance with other sectors of society especially with
workers, national minorities, students and progressive sections
of the middle class has been instrumental in generating popular
opposition to the government's anti-people policies and programs.
KMP respects the option of armed revolution being waged by
an increasing number of peasants who believe that this is the
only means to redress grievances and achieve fundamental change
in society.
KMP also struggles for tactical and temprorary reforms that
bring economic relief to the people through programs and projects
that contribute to actual socio-economic upliftment of peasant
men and women such as livelihood, health, disaster relief, cooperative-building and technology-development projects.
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