UP student wanted to be a doctor
Lapira spent six years in college, one year in Development Studies and five years in BS Biochemistry. She was about to graduate but earlier this year, Lapira became a full-time activist, Omaga said. She went to serve in the mountains of Southern Tagalog this August
To the graduating UP student-activists
In the situation of an industrially backward and feudal Philippines, service is definitely not like those listed above. Hence, the meaning of the challenge “Serve the People” in a historical, moral and practical context of the country is the offering of oneself to the fight for national liberation, not anything less.
MESSAGE TO THE COLLEGE EDITORS GUILD OF THE PHILIPPINES (CEGP) ON ITS 70th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
The CEGP has served the people by fearlessly exposing the ills of society and advocating social reform. It has the distinct advantage of having as its constituency the student youth, who are the most receptive to new ideas and most prepared to act and fight for social change. In the hands of progressive and revolutionary […]
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 […]
BAYANI NG MGA MIGRANTENG MANGGAGAWA: PARANGAL KAY KA SOL PILLAS
Ni Prop. Jose Maria Sison Tagapangulo, International League of Peoples’ Struggle Abril 26, 2016 Kami sa International League of Peoples’ Struggle ay nakikidalamhati sa pamilya at mga malapit na kasama ni Ka Sol Pillas, secretary general ng Migrante International. Nalulungkot tayo lahat sa kanyang pagpanaw subalit maipagbubunyi natin ang kanyang mga pagsisikap, mga sakripisyo at […]
Revolutionary literature and art in Philippines, from the 1960s to the present
I. My experiences regarding revolutionary art As a grade school boy in my hometown of Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, I first became aware of revolutionary art in the form of statues of leaders of the Philippine revolution. At the southern end of the poblacion stood the figure of Andres Bonifacio with an upraised bolo and at […]
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ROLE OF ACTIVISM IN RELATION TO PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
The Philippines is an archipelagic country east of the Asian mainland, north of Indonesia and south of Japan. It has a population of more than 100 million and a workforce of 59 million. It has rich natural resources, including 14 out of the 16 mineral ores necessary for industrial development. But the Filipino people are […]
AT HOME IN THE WORLD, PORTRAIT OF A REVOLUTIONARY
Introduction: A Biographical Sketch A Revolutionary Is Not a Terrorist Fourteen points sum up the life of Jose Maria Sison in his complaint to the European Court of Justice demanding the removal of his name from the list of terrorists issued by the Council of the European Union. But no phrase in the 34-paged document […]
The incubation of activism in the University of the Philippines
The waves of mass protest actions that followed the murder of Benigno Aquino in 1983 and culminated in the overthrow of the Marcos facsist dictatorship in 1986 would not have been possible without the incubation of student activists of the national democratic movement through the Student Cultural Association of the University of the Philippines (SCAUP), […]
ON THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Professor Jose Maria Sison (JMS): The U.P. graduate is unique by being part of the cream of the educated elite. He or she is among the brightest and most competent in his or her profession. He or she is supposed to be often at least patriotic and liberal-minded in a conservative or progressive way or […]