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.
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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.
Ileto’s problematic class categories
Among the criticisms which I raised regarding Ileto's account was the deeply problematic character of the class categories he employed.
Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution revisited
An examination of the origins of my scholarship revisiting Reynaldo Ileto's classic 1979 work, Pasyon and Revolution.