The ''Aguman ding Maldang Talapagobra (AMT)'' (

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, League of Poor Laborers or League of Poor Workers) was a

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, organized by

Pedro Abad Santos Pedro Abad Santos y Basco (, ; 31 January 1876 – 15 January 1945) was a Filipino Marxist politician. He founded the Partido Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PSP) or Philippine Socialist Party in 1929. He ran for several local elections but never won. ...

in 1933. It was influenced by European

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and anarchism, functioned as a mutual aid association, and participated in

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. The AMT was supported by the ''Partido Sosyalista ng Pilipinas'' (Socialist Party of the Philippines), a

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established by Abad Santos when the ''Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas'' (Communist Party of the Philippines) was outlawed in 1932. The AMT employed strike actions and mass demonstrations against landowners. There were occasions during the 1930s when members of the AMT were found dead, having been killed by security personnel of the sugar centrals or

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of landowners.

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