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One will not find a country on the planet where the program of Permanent Revolution does not hold, anymore than one will discover a new species of animal or plant whose development was not determined by Natural Selection. Scientific understanding...
Jose Ma. Sison, founder and lifelong leader of the Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), died on December 16 at the age of 83. No figure in the past half-century was more instrumental in the betrayal of the Filipino...
An essay on historical methodology and revolutionary politics, in response to the arguments of impressionism, empiricism, and pragmatism. How do we study history? How can we understand the martial law regime of Marcos, or the barricades of the Diliman Commune,...
On Saturday, May 1 1971, police and military forces in the Philippines, who had been deployed on the roof of Congress buidling as snipers armed with machine guns, opened fire on four thousand protesting workers and students. They mercilessly strafed...
Jose Ma. Sison, founder and ideological leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines, developed his fundamental political ideas -- the program of Stalinism -- during his years as a graduate student at the University of the Philippines. His class...