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In an era where history is systematically revised and memories are weaponized, the act of remembering becomes a form of resistance. For decades, stories of activism, insurgency, and Martial Law (ML) in the Philippines have either been forgotten, suppressed, or sanitized to serve particular (…)
Although thirty years have passed since the last issue of Debate (Philippine Left Review) was published, it seems that many progressives—old and young—as well as scholars and writers still look for copies of the articles or of entire issues of the journal. Only a few libraries still have copies (…)
A new book TIGAON 1969: Untold Stories of the CPP-NPA, KM and SDK by retired RTC Naga City Judge Soliman M. Santos, Jr. has come off press under the Bughaw imprint of the Ateneo de Manila University Press. It tells and substantiates several previously untold or unpublished stories on how the (…)
Katips, also known as Katips: The Movie, is a 2021 Filipino period musical drama film written and directed by Vincent M. Tañada. Based on Tañada’s 2016 stage musical of the same name, it is about a group of student activists from the Katipunan area of Quezon City who struggle to protest the (…)
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 (…)
On Saturday, May 1 1971, police and military forces in the Philippines, who had been deployed on the roof of the Congress building as snipers armed with machine guns, opened fire on four thousand protesting workers and students. They mercilessly strafed the crowd, firing on anyone who moved, (…)
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 (…)
The Philippine Catholic Church’s alleged conservatism throughout history is worth re-examining today as the country began its official commemoration of the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines on April 4, 2021—Easter Sunday. A study of Philippine Church History (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
This collection explores the difficult development of the filipino left after 1986.
The papers represent the first attempt ever to bring together in one collection the works of scholars specializing or interested on the Philippine Left and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). They (…)
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