Topic: activist

September 21, the formal date of the proclamation of martial law forty years ago, reminds us of the Marcos fascist dictatorship that the Filipino nation had to suffer…

Jose Ma. Sison has been called many names, among them “terrorist” (by the government and military) and “patriot” (by his comrades and friends). But the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is undeniably a poet, with some of his poems even receiving citations abroad. Bulatlat.com posts the following interview of Sison conducted by De La Salle student concerning Sison’s poems.

By Ina Alleco R. Silverio Bulatlat.com 15 July 2011 It’s not every day that one gets to hear about a society where workers are given the respect they…

I. Conception, Struggles and Achievements of the League I propose to present in broad strokes the conception, major struggles and achievements of the League in the first ten…

Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair Jose Maria Sison today declared that prospects are looking bright for talks between the CPP-led National Democratic Front of the…

Common Understanding and Commitment to Serve the People At the very outset, let me answer the question on why my closest comrades and I who started the revolutionary…

The old merger party of the Communist and Socialist Parties founded the People’s Army against Japan (Hukbalahap) in 1942. This army became the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (People’s…

The US colonial regime established the University of the Philippines in 1908 in order to attract the cream of the Philippine intelligentsia towards a pro-imperialist and conservative kind…

Since 2008 the major capitalist powers have wantonly used public money to bail out the big banks and corporations, thus allowing these to show profits on their balance…

The waves of mass protest actions that followed the murder of Benigno Aquino in 1983 and culminated in the overthrow of the Marcos facsist dictatorship in 1986 would…