‘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 […]

World health authorities rate Sinovac as the least effective vaccine

World health authorities rate Sinovac as the least effective vaccine at only 50 percent and extremely overpriced. the kickback for Duterte and his gang is well within the price difference between Sinovac and Astra Zeneca which is at least 90 percent effective and is far cheaper. Thie is broad daylight robbery amounting to hundreds of […]

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:

RED NEGOTIATORS PLAN MANILA TALKS

By Joyce Pangco Pañares Manila Standard Today 28 October 2010 The chief negotiator of the National Democratic Front, Luis Jalandoni, and his wife Ma. Consuelo Ledesma, will arrive in the country in December for informal talks with the government panel and a possible audience with President Benigno Aquino III.