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What is the Kilusang
Magbubukid ng Pilipinas?
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)
is a democratic and militant movement of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, rural youth and peasant women. It has effective leadership over a total of 1.3 million rural people with 65 provincial chapters and 15 regional chapters nationwide.
KMP is guided by the rich lessons of our mass campaigns and struggles. It unites with all oppressed and exploited classes, and fights for the interests and aspirations of the entire Filipino people.
KMP continues to consolidate and defend its gains and victories while advancing the peasant struggle against class exploitation and national oppression.
As a militant genuine peasant movement, the KMP struggles for the following:
The farmers' united and militant assertion of their rights and interests is an effective strategy to confront repulsively unequal class relations. KMP carries out painstaking organizing and education work among the peasants as a requisite in building a strong democratic mass organization.
To fulfill its vision and mission, KMP employs various proven effective forms of struggle and massive militant actions to uphold and protect the rights and interests of the peasants. KMP coordinates the farmers' local struggles and campaigns at the national level. It is also linking up with movements and organizations of workers and other sectors of society as well as with struggles and movements internationally.
KMP also struggles for immediate economic relief for the peasants and builds economic organizations, launches programs and projects such as livelihood and production, health, sanitation, disaster relief, and technology-development projects.
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