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The Sophism of the Christian Social Movement

In Europe, Christian “democracy” or Christian “socialism” has merely helped preserve the monopoly capitalist system. In Latin America, it has merely helped preserve the semicolonial and semifeudal conditions. It has nothing special to offer in this country except clerical cretinism and clericofascism.

On Philippine Independence Day

It was in 1962 that the Philippine government decided to change the official Independence Day of our country. Previously, our people had been indoctrinated by the educational system and the entire officialdom that July 4th was our Independence Day.

Towards a National Democratic Teacher’s Movement

To speak before the fellow teachers and future teachers is always a welcome opportunity for one involved in what has come to be called the Second Propaganda Movement,…

BIBLIOGRAPHY 1961 – 1990

WRITINGS OF JOSE MARIA SISON (divided according to periods of his life) I. Legal Struggle (1961-68) A. Books 1. Brothers and other Poems (Manila: Filipino Signatures, 1961). 2.…

Rizal the Social Critic

Dr. Jose Rizal was the outstanding representative of a numerically small middle class that developed during the 19th century. A complex of historical circumstances, such as the marked…

The Need for a Cultural Revolution

To have a scientific view of culture as we should, we need to understand first of all that culture is a superstructure that rests upon a material basis.…

Social and Cultural Themes in Filipino Poetry (Part II of II)

On the whole, Hufana distinguishes himself as the ethnic poet of the Philippines. His volume of “a first decade”, Sickle Season, published in 1959, issues a native concern…

Social and Cultural themes in Philippine Poetry (Part I of II)

It is very relevant to take note of the possibility of embodying militancy in a metaphorical presentation. While it may be said that the Filipino poet has always…

Too Bold a Line of Sectarian Direction

Jose Maria Sison August 16, 1961 Dear Dr. Rola: Thank you for reading my essay “Enemies of Intellectual Freedom,” and most of all, for noting chiefly in your…

Enemies of Intellectual Freedom

If our University is to remain the bulwark of academic freedom in the country, its advocates should now identify with the antagonistic forces that seek to undermine, bend…