Jose Maria Sison Archive

Category: bibliography

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…

Revolt of the Students

Dr. Chow Tse-tung’s The May Fourth Movement, the latest of the Harvard East Asian Studies, is a brilliantly balanced analysis of a very controversial subject. This objective is…