Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: the revolution diffused
An eruption of protests and violence — molotov cocktails and gunfire — in the streets of Manila, launched the heady, charged days of January to March 1970.
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Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: People’s Marches and the end of the FQS
Prevented from gathering in Miranda, the mass dissent turned to marches, but by the end of its third month, with no clear political goal, the storm blew itself out.
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: the People’s Congresses of February
Mass social outrage began to take organized political form, as protestors repeatedly gathered en masse at Plaza Miranda over the course of February 1970 for a series of “People’s Congresses.”
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: January 30 — Battle of Mendiola
January 31 witnessed the bloody nightlong battle, fought with molotov cocktails and gunfire, for control of Mendiola.
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: January 26 — “On the trembling edge of Revolution”
The brutal police crackdown on the protests staged outside the legislature during Marcos’ State of the Nation address set off the social upheaval of the First Quarter Storm.
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: Prelude
Fifty years ago this month an eruption of protests and violence in the streets of Manila, launched the heady, charged days of January to March 1970, a period that came to be known as the First Quarter Storm.
Mao welcomes Imelda Marcos to China
An odd, unpleasant photograph was taken forty-five years ago today. Imelda Marcos, the conjugal head of a two year old military dictatorship, intimately greeted the aged Chairman Mao who openly ogled the straightcut neckline of her terno.
47 years since the imposition of martial law in the Philippines
The ruling opposition was thus mobilized for a particular reason — to have their hands upon the reins of the inevitable dictatorship. The working class and exploited masses of the Philippines were mobilized for very different reasons: price hikes, runaway...
How the Diliman Commune was part of a coordinated campaign of barricades in February 1971
The famed 1971 seizure of the UP Diliman campus and the formation of the ‘Diliman Commune’ was part of a coordinated campaign of barricades erected by the KM and SDK throughout Manila and beyond.