In the second half of the 19th century, a germinal modern industrial proletariat emerged in the colonial and feudal Philippines under Spain. The machines for modern industry and…
Topic: arrest
2006
2005
I use the term ideology, to mean the study of ideas or a system of ideas. For the purpose of our study, I shall make some differentiation of…
2003
Ka Bert often told me with pride that he became the secretary of a shoesmiths’ union at the age of 17 and gained experience in the working class…
2002
To quote Marx, “Tantae molis erat(So massive a task it was), to establish the “eternal laws of Nature” of the capitalist mode of production, to complete the process…
2000
Even when monopoly capitalism was becoming dominant in the most developed industrial capitalist countries from the 1870’s onward, the monopoly bourgeoisie trumpeted the doctrine of laissez faire. This…
1999
We recall the outbreak of the Philippine-American War on February 4, 1899 and we celebrate the people’s revolutionary struggle against US imperialism. We draw inspiration from our revolutionary…
1966
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…