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, by MANGGAGAWA Juan
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 (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr, Sonny’s Friends
Letter to Pastor R. Mesina, Jr. on the 50th Anniversary of his 4 February 1971 death from his batchmates of Pisay Dos, PSHS Class 1965-1970, 6 February 2021
DEAR SONNY,
Kumusta, ka-batch? It’s been a long 50 years since we last saw you, laid to rest after your martyrdom that sparked the (…)
, by SCALICE Joseph
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 (…)
, by SANTOS Franz
The second week of November was met with a number of student movements in the Philippines. It began when a group of students from the Ateneo de Manila University threatened to hold an academic strike to protest the government’s inadequate preparation and response to the series of typhoons that (…)
, by SCALICE Joseph
One of the more important tasks for an historian is bringing the experiences and lessons of history to bear upon contemporary developments. As students in the Philippines are currently organizing strikes demanding, in increasingly political language, an end to government neglect in the face of (…)
, by DAVID Randy
Public Sociologist, University of the Philippines Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Author, Public Affairs Television Host, Newspaper Columnist, and Political Activist.
Age: 73. Born on 8 January 1946 to Pedro David, a lawyer, and Bienvenida Siongco, a homemaker, in Pampanga Province, Central (…)
, by SCALICE Joseph
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 (…)
, by BenarNews
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 (…)
, by SCALICE Joseph
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the serialized publication of “The Philippine Crisis” in the Philippine Collegian, the prestigious University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus newspaper in July 1970. Written by Jose Ma. Sison, founder and head of the Communist Party of the (…)
, by SCALICE Joseph
An eruption of protests and violence — molotov cocktails and gunfire — in the streets of Manila, launched the heady, charged days of January to March 1970. The paroxysm that opened the decade came to be known as the First Quarter Storm (FQS), a period which began on January 26 as Marcos (…)
, by MOHIDEEN Reihana
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 (…)
, by TADEM Eduardo C.
Unknown to many, Aileen was also involved in the Philippine Left’s revolutionary struggle
A LIFETIME OF ACTION. The late Aileen Baviera with the author in various periods. Photos courtesy of Ed Tadem and artwork by Jose Monfred Sy
MANILA, Philippines – The tributes that have poured in to (…)
, by RPA
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 (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
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, (…)
, by RUTTEN Rosanne
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, (…)
, by SCALICE Joseph
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 (…)
, by TADEM Eduardo C.
By 2022, will the Left be able to transcend its historical reticence and finally achieve a breakthrough in electoral politics?Why did the Philippine Left perform badly (and worse than in previous years) in the 2019 elections? In the party-list contest, the mainstream Left saw its votes fall from (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
National Security Adviser Hermogenes C. Esperon, Jr. was reported to have said that peace zones like those in Sagada, Mountain Province and in Mindanao would be reviewed basically in so far as these have barred the entry and presence of police and military personnel but not rebels particularly (…)
, by SCALICE Joseph
One of the pivotal moments in the history of the Philippine Communist Parties in the 1960s and early 70s, in the period leading up to the declaration of martial law by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972, was the event which became known as the Diliman Commune.⊕ Over the course of the first nine days of (…)
, by PM Partylist
The partylist group PM opened its electoral bid for “genuine representation for the marginalized” with a grassroots campaign involving workers, urban and youth. A group of idealistic youth campaigned early morning today by train hopping for their favored opposition senatorial bets and the (…)
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