Negotiations for a just and lasting peace
A nationwide civil war exists between the US-dominated reactionary big comprador-landlord Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the people’s democratic government of workers and peasants and all the revolutionary forces and people represented by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP. It has been going on since 1969.
Prospects under the Duterte administation and tasks of the Filipino youth
First point: Unite the people for the overthrow of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system through a people’s war and for the completion of the national democratic revolution. On the basis of his previous pronouncements, Duterte can easily agree to a radical or substantial change of the semicolonial and semifeudal system but not to the overthrow […]
Student Power?
Before we go far into a discussion of the ideology and goals of the rising student rebel movement in the Philippines, let us first examine the term student power which is nowadays commonly used in the bourgeois mass media and also among the varied circles of the New Left so-called. It appears that the common […]
Coups and Other Tests for the Philippines’ New ‘Leftist’ Leader
The newly-elected Philippine president, who promises to be the country’s first left president, studied Political Thought under the author of this article. Within 24 hours after the Philippine elections closed at 5 p.m. of May 9, Rodrigo Duterte of the opposition Pilipino-Democratic Party-Laban registered in the automated vote count of the Commission on Elections a […]
Strengthen working-class leadership and the struggle for socialism
On this day, we recall and celebrate the victories of the labor movement in fighting for the eight-hour workday, higher wages, better working conditions and social transformation. We pay tribute to the pioneers and martyrs of the labor movement and we draw inspiration from their commitment, courage, and perseverance as we seek to boldly expand […]
On the Edsa Uprising
Sealing the Doom of Marcos Q3: What in your view finally sealed the doom of the Marcos dictatorship? A: In 1979 international credit for the Philippines as well as for the third world countries started to tighten. As a result, the state corporations and the crony corporations–all big comprador enterprises–started to collapse in 1981. More […]
Nang lusubin ang palasyo
Q4: Marcos’ ouster has been variably described as the feat of “people power,” a “peaceful revolution,” a “miracle of prayer or the rosary,” and a “pre-emptive revolution.” How do you evaluate the decisive four days–February 22 to 25, 1986–when the dictator Marcos was forced to leave the country? A: Let me first comment on those […]
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the EDSA uprising that overthrew the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines.
The most definitive end of the Marcos fascist dictatorship came Feb. 25, 1986, when the despot Marcos and his family had to be flown out of the presidential palace by U.S. helicopter. There was no other way for them to escape the wrath of the people because tens of thousands of progressive workers and students […]
Paris climate talks are predetermined by the monopoly capitalism to aggravate climate and social injustice and crises
The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be held in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015, has been touted as a make-or-break meeting that will produce a new agreement, one that will supposedly serve as bridge after Kyoto Protocol and govern long-term global climate […]
For a socially just world, strengthen the people’s solidarity and intensify the struggle against imperialist plunder, crisis and war
I. Global Situation and Trends The neoliberal economic policy of unbridled profit-taking and rapid accumulation of finance capital continues to govern the world capitalist system. Since the adoption of the policy in 1980, it has brought about a series of worsening economic and financial crises leading to the crisis of 2008 and the now prolonged […]