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On Saturday, May 1 1971, police and military forces in the Philippines, who had been deployed on the roof of Congress buidling as snipers armed with machine guns, opened fire on four thousand protesting workers and students. They mercilessly strafed...
Jose Ma. Sison, founder and ideological leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines, developed his fundamental political ideas -- the program of Stalinism -- during his years as a graduate student at the University of the Philippines. His class...
In the final analysis, Marasigan’s argument amounts to the claim that Joseph Stalin was right, and the CPP is correct in continuing his political legacy.
The foundational text of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), written by Jose Ma. Sison, Philippine Society and Revolution, was first published in serialized form in campus newspapers in the latter half of 1970.
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.