The people’s struggle against war
The choice of theme for this seminar is highly significant and urgent. Imperialism means war. It is necessary for us to comprehend the nature and history of imperialism as the source of war and confront the current reality of a worsening new world disorder and the spreading scourge of war. The point is to arouse, […]
The fatal course of imperialism and inevitability of socialism
I am happy to participate in an autopsy. “Neoliberalism” or “free market” globalization is practically dead. It has been killed by the current global recession. The economic policy-makers of monopoly capitalism have themselves declared that the disease could not be cured by the monetarist medicine prescribed by Dr. Milton Friedman. They say that the problem […]
Bankruptcy of imperialist globalization and urgency of the socialist cause
The October Revolution of 1917 remains significant and relevant. It brought about the first socialist state and society. It demonstrated the capability of the working class, in unison with the peasantry, to take power and build socialism in response to imperialist crisis and war. Lenin addressed the working people with the stirring call to turn […]
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Impact on the Philippines and Continuing Global Significance
The GPCR inspired the building and strengthening of many Marxist-Leninist parties in the third world, To this day, a signifi-cant number of them persevere in revolutionary struggle in South-east Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Latin America and Africa. Some of them are in the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations, upholding Marxism-Leninism and Mao […]
The Sophism of the Christian Social Movement
In Europe, Christian “democracy” or Christian “socialism” has merely helped preserve the monopoly capitalist system. In Latin America, it has merely helped preserve the semicolonial and semifeudal conditions. It has nothing special to offer in this country except clerical cretinism and clericofascism.
Rizal the Social Critic
Dr. Jose Rizal was the outstanding representative of a numerically small middle class that developed during the 19th century. A complex of historical circumstances, such as the marked acceleration of commerce and intellectual contact between the Philippines and Europe and a certain amount of concessions made by the colonial regime to the principalia, made it […]
The Need for a Cultural Revolution
To have a scientific view of culture as we should, we need to understand first of all that culture is a superstructure that rests upon a material basis. The ideas, institutions and all cultural patterns are dependent on the material mode of existence of a society. These change as all societies are subject to change. […]