On the Filipino peasants’ struggle for food security
Food security means producing and providing enough food (grains, vegetables, meat, fish, oils, salt, sugar and so on) to the people and keep them alive and in good health.
Philippine History, Classes and Crisis, and United Front
It is the duty of every Filipino activists to study and deepen continually one’s knowledge of the history of the Philippines. Only in this manner can the historical roots of the basic problems of the people and the semi-colonial and semi-feudal framework of Philippine society be understood.
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
The objective of studying dialectical and historical materialism is to provide the proletariat and the people with the materialist-scientific outlook in comprehending nature and society and with the materialist dialectical method in cognition or acquiring knowledge from such social practice as production, class struggle and scientific experiment.
Socialism: Utopian and scientific
As background, let me cite the fact that in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, Marx and Engels had already differentiated Scientific Socialism from Utopian Socialism of three kinds:
The Basic Principles of Marxism Leninism on Historical Materialism
Questions and Answers on Historical Materialism
Anakbayan-Europa ND Line Online series
On dialectical materialism
Politically, there were sharpening class tensions between the rising bourgeoisie and the people on one hand and the monarchy and the landed aristocracy on the other in Europe
On the current character of the Philippine economy
In fact, under the neoliberal policy for the last four decades, the underdeveloped pre-industrial and semifeudal character of the Philippine economy has been aggravated
On the international situation, COVID-19 pandemic and the people’s response
Science has advanced so fast and so far and has provided the technology to raise the productivity of the forces and means of production to such a high degree as to have the capability of eliminating class exploitation, gross inequality and mass poverty and providing a comfortable and fruitful life for at least twice the population of the world today.
Catastrophe alert: On Marxism and the environment
Stefan Engel, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Marxist Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD), is commendable for seeking to comprehend present-day Earth science and impart knowledge about nature, particularly about the lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere and their dialectical interactions since hundreds of millions years ago, long before the emergence of the human species.
From Manila to Mindanao with Marx and Mao
José María Sison, the founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (described by the New York Times as “the world’s longest running communist insurgency”) goes into detail with Counterpunch about the theories of liberation which guide him and millions of others toward the horizon of a more just and sustainable world. From Marxism […]