‘The gumamela is still red’

Like its antecedent, The Gumamela Is Still Red is mainly a book of poems but appropriately includes brief items in prose, such as narratives and correspondences, in order to contextualize the poems in historical, class and personal terms from the revolutionary viewpoint of the proletariat, all toiling masses of workers and peasants and the Lumad […]

The ethical imperative of human dignity in social transformation

The 9th Ecumenical Church Leaders’ Summit on Peace is a chance once again to express our unity amidst our diversity as the 500 years of Christianity in our country is being commemorated. In the spirit of Pope Francis, let us seek unity in diversity in dealing with issues that beset society such as when he […]

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:

Terrorist crimes of Trump and US imperialism turn the peoples of the Middle East against them

The acting Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi revealed in his recent address to the Iraqi Parliament that US President Trump had asked him to “play the mediator’s role” between the U.S. and Iran and that consequently General Qassem Soleimani flew to Baghdad with a message from the Iranian government regarding the lowering of tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Celebrate the struggle for freedom on Dec. 29

You are cordially invited to attend the cultural and artistic celebration of the 50 years of the Filipino people’s revolutionary struggle for national and social liberation led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)