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Politics of repression in the Philippines

The Filipino people have long suffered a history of repression and exploitation. They went through more than three centuries of colonial rule by Spain, from the 16th to…

False sense of recovery at G-20 in Pittsburgh

The leaders of the imperialist powers and the world’s other big economies concluded their G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, USA and declared the capitalist world economy on the path…

On education, imperialism and resistance

I. The Decisive Importance of Education The availability of formal education at the basic and higher levels to comparatively larger numbers of people differentiates the modern world of…

Salient points about the international situation

As the reality shows, the dogma of the “free market” is a big lie of monopoly capitalism. The US-instigated policy of “neoliberal globalization” has unravelled. It has not…

What the people can and must do about the financial and economic crisis

It is of utmost importance for the working class and the rest of the people exploited by the system of monopoly capitalism to discuss and clarify to themselves…

The policy of ‘neoliberal’ globalization and worsening economic crisis in the Philippines

First of all, let me explain what the policy of “neoliberal” globalization is all about. It is a policy of deception, misrepresenting monopoly capitalism as “free market” capitalism.…

Impact of imperialist war and terror and further strengthening of the people’s movement

Since the end of the 19th century, the entire world has become the economic territory of monopoly capitalism. There is no part of it that is not in…

A stronger revolutionary movement

The ruling system in the Philippines is semicolonial and semifeudal. It is dominated by foreign monopoly capitalist countries headed by the US and Japan. It is ruled by…

Keynote address to the East Asia and Ocenia Consultative Conference

The successful anti-imperialist protest actions during the WTO 6th Ministerial Conference in Hongkong last December 2005 underscored the importance and efficacy of having a strong and active ILPS…

On US militarism and ‘war on terror’ in the Asia-Pacific region

Militarism and expansionism characterized the US as a global imperialist power at the turn of the 20th century. The US reached across the Pacific and turned the Philippines into its colony and military outpost in Asia. It emerged from the Second World War the strongest and most prosperous industrial capitalist country, while the economies of its European allies as well as their former adversaries Germany, Italy and Japan (the Axis powers) were devastated.