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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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My Father’s Notebook: Kader Abdolah’s Novel of 20th Century Iran
The English translation of My Father’s Notebook is the only book by Kader Abdolah that I’ve read. The novel is also my first and only encounter with the exiled Iranian writer who now lives in the...
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Glimpses of Life in Auschwitz
For every person missing at the roll-call, ten would be shot. Transport The corporal saluted smartly and replied ‘Wieviel Stück’ The corporal saluted smartly and replied that there were six hundred and...
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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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Capitulation No Substitute for National Liberation
By Thomas Van Beersum, Pinoy Weekly Who does this Alex de Jong think he is? Either he has not studied the Philippine revolution, or he has deliberately distorted facts to fit his own warped sectarian...
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Chakravyuh: A Flawed but Relevant Film on the Maoist Revolution in India
I was able to watch the film Chakravyuh, but minus the subtitles. Without the dialogue, I did not understand the minute details and nuances. But the scenes and the action were enough to give you an...
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Parangal kay Wendell Mollenido Gumban — iskolar ng bayan, propagandista,...
Nagpapaabot ang Anakbayan ng taos pusong pakikiramay sa pamilya, mga kaibigan, at mga kasama ni Wendell Mollenido Gumban na nagbuwis ng buhay sa isang engkwentro sa mga element ng 66th Infantry...
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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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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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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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