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(2nd UPDATE) ’Robredo is a worthy candidate no doubt. But a unified opposition is equally important and to do this, all options should still be explored,’ says Bayan Muna’s Teddy Casiño
The progressive rank is not fully on board yet on 1Sambayan’s formal nomination of Vice President Leni Robredo as (...)
Believe it or not, the global fight against this pandemic, and especially the counter-measure of vaccination, is actual a rare common ground between the “Communist Terrorist Groups” and the “U.S.-Duterte fascist regime.”
Stated otherwise, between the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-New (...)
On the occasion of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Month this August and IHL Day this August 12, we call particular attention to an authoritative 2005 study on customary IHL by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) which found that State practice establishes Rule 138 (“The (...)
On the occasion of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Month this August and of the second month “anniversary” of the Masbate Incident of 6 June 2021 that saw the tragic killings of 21-year old scholar-athlete Kieth Absalon and his 40-year old cousin union leader Nolven Absalon who were riding (...)
The tragic killing of young scholar-athlete Kieth Absalon and his cousin Nolven Absalon who were riding on bicycles when hit by a landmine blast last June 6 in Purok 4, Barangay Anas, Masbate City, already since admitted by the perpetrator New People’s Army (NPA), is most condemnable. We (...)
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 (...)
In April 1967, the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP) broke in two. This article examines how a contradiction at the heart of the party’s program, which sought to retain leadership over both a mass movement and an alliance with a section of the elite, fragmented the party along the lines of (...)
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 (...)
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