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Facebook Revolution? Social Media, the 2013 Elections, and the National...
Note: This is a talk I gave to campus journalists of the University of the Philippines system during a Conference of the UP Solidaridad in UP Visayas Miagao, Iloilo last May 16, 2013. When Pixel...
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What does nationalism mean today?
This is an essay I wrote for the Philippine Online Chronicles. Street children are once again selling little Philippine flags in busy downtown streets. The relatively well-off families display flaglets...
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Not Even a Needle! Pre-WW2 Colonial Economy Still True Today
We had absolutely no industry to speak of. We remained a completely agricultural economy, importing virtually all our requirements of finished goods, and paying for these with the export earnings of...
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Panawagan ni Bonifacio
Itinuturo ng katwiran na wala tayong iba pang maaantay kundi lalo’t lalong kahirapan, lalo’t lalong kataksilan, lalo’t lalong kaalipustaan, at lalo’t lalong kaalipinan. Itinuturo ng katwiran na huwag...
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Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa (Poem)
Note: Today we commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Filipino revolutionary leader Andres Bonifacio who led the armed struggle against Spanish colonialism in 1896. This is the complete version of...
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Red Ant Dream by Sanjay Kak (Film)
Filed under: Historia, Política Tagged: Communist Party of India Maoist, Maoist, Naxalites, Red Ant Dream, Revolution, Sanjay Kak
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Marcos and BS Aquino: The Dictator and the Wannabe
Last September 21, the nation commemorated the 42nd anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law. President Benigno Simeon ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III once again spoke in memory of his father who died...
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Ang kabuluhan ng First Quarter Storm (FQS)
I wrote this for the Philippine Online Chronicles. Malalaking kilos-protesta at demonstrasyon sa pangunguna ng Kabataang Makabayan (KM) at ibang mga pambansa-demokratikong organisasyon ng kabataan at...
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Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano (1899-1916): Ang Kinalimutang Digmaan
Ginugunita ngayon taon ang ika-116 anibersaryo ng pagsiklab ng Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano, isang marahas na gerang agresyon ng Estados Unidos upang sakupin ang Pilipinas. Ang Digmaang...
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Ang mahabang kasaysayan ng paglaban ng mamamayang Bangsamoro
Note: I wrote this article for The Philippine Online Chronicles. Mahigit 40,000 katao ang nag-bakwit sa kanilang mga tahanan dahil sa patuloy na opensibang militar laban sa rebeldeng grupong...
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The May 4th Movement
Mao Tse-tung, May 1939 Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Volume II Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1967 The May 4th Movement twenty years ago marked a new stage in China’s bourgeois-democratic revolution...
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Endangering indigenous communities in Panay (full version)
The Binanog dance performed during the 2016 Tumanduk nga Mangunguma nga Nagapangapin sa Duta kag Kabuhi (TUMANDUK) Assembly held in Tapaz, Capiz earlier this year. Photo credits: TUMANDUK. In his first...
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Educating millennials on martial law
[This commentary was originally published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer on October 5, 2016.] Of late, members of the younger generation, commonly referred to as “millennials,” have been the target...
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1,328 contractual workers missing?
[This commentary was originally published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer on March 9, 2017. The NFFM report can be read in full at http://ctuhr.org/hti-nffm-finalreport.] More than a month after the...
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The Maoist Temptation and the 60s French Intellectuals
Despite several reservations—especially, my lack of blind faith in Mao’s China—I sympathize with the Maoists. They present themselves as revolutionary socialists, in opposition to the Soviet Union’s...
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