HIMAGSIK KAYUMANGGI

IN MEMORY OF CHERITH DAYRIT-GARCIA & MARIA LORENA BARROS

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) condemned the latest series of attacks by suspected state agents against individuals critical or opposed to the anti-people policies and programs of the Arroyo administration. Bayan cited the killing of Celso Pojas, spokesperson of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas-Southern Mindanao Region; the abduction and torture of Randy Malayao, former vice president for Visayas of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) and a consultant of the National Democratic Front (NDF) for Cagayan Valley, the harassment and physical threats against Glaiza Dimapilis, incoming president of the Philippine Christian University (PCU) Student Government and harassment and attempts to recruit Arman Albarillo Bayan-Southern Tagalog secretary general, as a military agent. Dr. Carol Araullo, Bayan chairperson, said, “All these incidents happened in just one month. We have every reason to believe that state agents and state apparatuses are behind this latest wave of...

SAMUT-SARING REPLEKSIYON NI FELIX RAZON, OFW, HABANG NAGLALAKAD SA DAUNGAN NG BOSTON HARBOR, MASSACHUSSETTS, USA --E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Katawa-tawa, tila lumalala habang nagkakapatong-patong ang mga taon sa pawis at liwaliw…. Di ko pa rin makuhang manahimik, maghalukipkip…. Hindi naman nakababagot ang lungsod na ito, bukod sa ilang ghetto, bar at putahan; May maluluwang na lansangan, ilog na tila malinis at walang lumulutang na bangkay Bukod sa ilang mga pulubing homeless na naglaboy, nakawiwiling Borders at Starbucks At ilang aklatan kung saan pwede kang magbasa nang walang magpapaalis sa iyo-- Masarap na cheesecake o alak kung sakaling may pera-- Nakuha mong ngumiti sa mga musmos na naglalaro sa Boston Gardens, alaga ng ilang nakabibighaning dalaga, ay naku! Isa kang dayuhang burgis na nakabalatkayo, kagat ang labi, nag-iingat, naghihinala… Maraming gulo ritong nakasisindak, sigalot na kaparis din sa Europa o sa ibang lugar-- Patayan, race riots. terorismo ng Estado laban sa Pinoy o si...

ANTONIO GRAMSCI’S THEORY OF THE ‘NATIONAL-POPULAR’ & SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES by E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Though in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle. The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie… The workingmen have no country. We cannot take from them what they have no got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself as the nation, it is so far itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word. --KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS, “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848) (1971, 101,109) Recent political events mark the beginning of a phase in which insurrection has become the sole means for the masses to express their political will. --ANTONIO GRAMSCI, letter dated Feb. 1925 (1971, lxxviii) Gramsci has been pronounced “dea...