Filemon Lagman

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name = “Ka Popoy” Lagman


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known_for = Partido ng Manggagawa,
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Filemon Lagman (March 17, 1953—February 6, 2001), popularly known as Ka Popoy was a revolutionary socialist and workers' leader in the Philippines. He shares the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. [cite news|url=http://www.manilatimes.net/others/special/2003/dec/27/20031227spe1.html|title=Rebels conducted bloody purges to rid movement of ‘spies’|last=Sabangan|first=Annie Ruth C.|coauthors=Mio Cusi and Ric Puod|date=2003-12-17|publisher=The Manila Times|accessdate=2008-09-27] He split with the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1991 to form the "Partido ng Manggagawa" (Labor Party). He was the first prominent victim of a political assassination under the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, carried out in Quezon City. His assassination is widely speculated to have been carried out by his former associates in the Communist Party.

From the split, he led the formation of the "Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino" (Filipino Workers' Party), an underground revolutionary socialist party, which, after his death, merged with the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (Socialist Party of Labor) and the "Partido para sa Proletaryong Demokrasya" (Party for Proletarian Democracy).

During the First Quarter Storm, he was a member of "Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan" (Democratic Association of the Youth) in the 1970s.

He was the first prominent victim of a political assassination under the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, carried out in "Bahay ng Alumni", University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City on February 8, 2001. [cite book|last=Edralin|first=Divina M.|title=Collective Bargaining in the Philippines|publisher=National Bookstore|date=2003|pages=95|isbn=9710863754|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SfO1AAAAIAAJ&q=popoy+lagman&dq=popoy+lagman&pgis=1|accessdate=2008-09-27] The assassins and the culprits have not yet been apprehended as of 2008. [cite web|url=http://www.congress.gov.ph/legis/print_journal.php?congress=14&dd=j&id=60|title=House of Representatives - Journal of the House|last=House of Representatives of the Philippines|date=2008-02-06|publisher=House of Representatives of the Philippines|accessdate=2008-09-27] On July 2007, the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office decided to drop the case on eight suspected communist assassins since the witnesses were unable to attended the preliminary investigations. [cite news|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080721-149824/Prosecutor-drops-labor-leader-Popoy-Lagmans-slay-case|title=Prosecutor drops labor leader Popoy Lagman’s slay case|last=Ramos|first=Marlon|date=2008-07-21|publisher=Philippine Daily Inquirer|accessdate=2008-09-27]

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External links

* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/lagman/index.htm Filemon 'Ka Popoy' Lagman Archive] at Marxists Internet Archive
* [http://www.partidongmanggagawa.org.ph/rev "Who is Ka Popoy Lagman?"] (from the official Labour Party website)
* [http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/436/436p21.htm "Popoy Lagman assassinated"] (from "Green Left Weekly")