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Book Review: Ascending the Fourth Mountain: A Personal Account of the Marcos Years. By Maria Virginia Yap Morales. Bughaw: An Imprint of Ateneo de Manila University Press. 2021. xvii pp, 172 pp.
Ascending the Fourth Mountain is just the latest in slew of memoirs by radicals who want to tell (...)
It is perilous to be an activist in President Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines. The government’s attacks on dissenters and activists have escalated in the name of counterterrorism, replicating the aggressiveness of its bloody and longstanding “war on drugs”.
During the period from June 2016 (when (...)
Opinion: a short review of the foreign policy agenda presented in the “Laban ng Masa’s 25-Point Program for the 2022 Elections”.
The recently publicized “Laban ng Masa’s 25-Point Program for the 2022 Elections” clearly and sharply articulates an innovative foreign policy agenda for the Philippines (...)
Two decades ago today, the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Mindanao (RPM-M) was established in the jungles of Mindanao. Two decades of revolutionary works have been celebrated through the democratic victories with the toiling masses and working class. While it is true, we are far beyond (...)
Eduardo Tadem’s book is the University of the Philippines professor’s homage to the late Bartolome Pasion, his comrade in the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP), the older of the two communist parties in the Philippines.
Ka Bart (Ka is short for kasama, Filipino word for comrade) grew up in a (...)
Is this the future you gave your life for?
If you were Gabriela Silang, Jose Rizal, or Andres Bonifacio and by some miracle you woke up and found yourself in today’s Philippines, would you say that this is the future you fought and shed your blood for?
With over 712,000 infections and over (...)
Revolutionary Salute to all Comrades in Arms in the Revolutionary Peoples’ Army (RPA) on its 27th year of Socialist Revolution!
The year 2020 has been a trying period globally with the new covid-19 facing and managing the pandemic and its serious effects in the economy. The disastrous effects (...)
Jose Ma. Sison, known as Joma, has been one of the most significant figures in the Philippines over the course of the past fifty-five years. Both his writings and the organizations over which he exercised ideological and political leadership have played an influential and at times decisive role (...)
Two years after first setting foot on Philippine soil, I found myself with other American activists on a plane bound for the United States. It was November 1972, two months after martial law was declared in the country. The Marcos regime ordered our deportation back to the U.S. When the plane (...)
Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, developed the foundational ideas of his future political career during his final year as a graduate student at the University of the Philippines in 1961. An examination of his writings and activity over the course of this year (...)
The Philippine military claims that a breakthrough is around the corner, but a continuation of the conflict is convenient for many.
The Philippines’ Maoist insurgency has spanned over five decades and is one of the world’s longest ongoing armed conflicts. The roots of militant communism in the (...)
In April 1967 the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP) broke in two. It was this split that led to the founding of the new Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in 1968. In an article published in Critical Asian Studies in January, “The geopolitical alignments of diverging social interests: (...)
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Filemon “Ka Popoy” Lagman by enemies of the working class. As a comrade of Popoy, drafting this reply is my personal contribution to commemorating his legacy.
An article penned by John Malvar and posted in the World Socialist Website (...)
On August 26, 2020, I delivered an online lecture, “First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Marcos, Duterte, and the Communist Parties of the Philippines,” as part of a postdoctoral seminar series at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
My talk drew on my doctoral research and (...)
The outlawed Philippine communist party directed its armed wing on Wednesday to target Chinese companies involved in infrastructure projects, including state-backed firms that the United States has blacklisted for their part in Beijing’s militarization in the South China Sea.
The communists (...)
We can’t go back to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem — this graffiti, scrawled on a wall in Hongkong, has become a universal slogan capturing the essence of the crisis we face, now being revealed to millions more people, under the impact of the coronavirus (...)
Revolutionary Peoples’ Army – National Operational Command (RPA-NOC) Statement on the RPA’s 26th Year Anniversary.
26 years ago in the middle of Lanao del Sur jungle (Guerilla Camp Ariel) that a Military Conference was called for by the former Central Mindanao Region of the then Communist Party (...)
Love in a time of coronavirus, just like love in a time of cholera, has already happened and will likely continue to happen. How about a ceasefire on the war front between the Philippine government/armed forces and the communist-led rebels in this time of coronavirus? It has happened before, (...)
Why did peasants and rural workers support the revolutionary movement CPPNPA (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army, henceforth called NPA)? The question is hardly trivial: without the support of more than a million people in Philippine villages and towns who supplied manpower, (...)
November 30 marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the radical Filipino youth organization, Kabataang Makabayan [Nationalist Youth] (KM), in 1964. While it had only thirty-four charter members, the KM grew rapidly and came to play an instrumental role in the upheavals that shook (...)
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