Philippines
Communist Party of the Philippines: Background to the 1993 Split
Max Lane — At the heart of the split in the Communist Party of the Philippines were issues of democratic centralism, absolutist deviations, militarist thinking and rejection of the Maoist approach to guerrilla warfare.
Leninism versus Stalinism: The debate in the Communist Party of the Philippines
Sonny Melencio — The debate in the Communist Party of the Philippines was a fundamental struggle between the Leninist concept of the party and the Stalinist distortions of it, as propagated and practiced by its national leadership.
‘Global Battlefields’: Filipino socialist Walden Bello’s no-holds-barred reckoning
Max Elbaum — Walden Bello’s memoir wrestles with tough questions of political strategy and radical ethics in a world full of uprisings, wars, obscene inequality, and aggressive counter-revolutionary movements.
Partido Lakas ng Masa — Duterte’s arrest must now be followed up with the dismantling of the bloody and fascistic policies and machinery set up during his time in power.
US-China alignment under Trump and lessons from Ukraine for the Philippines
Reihana Mohideen — Like Ukraine, the Philippines could be reduced to a pawn in the US power play with China.
Partido Lakas ng Masa — Duterte’s arrest is a vindication and a step towards justice for the tens of thousands who were murdered during the so-called “war on drugs” by his administration.
Asserting a Philippine foreign policy of cooperative peace for the Southeast Asian Sea
Rasti Delizo — The geostrategic rivalry between the US and China sharply rages on throughout the Eastern Hemisphere, impinging on the littoral states around the Southeast Asian Sea.
Disaster nationalism is the new fascism
Richard Seymour on how crisis and catastrophe are feeding the far-right surge.
The logic of imperialism’s ‘Maritime Great Game’ in the Southeast Asian Sea
Rasti Delizo — A fresh inter-imperialist conflict is mounting in the form of a ‘Maritime Great Game’, and it is swiftly accelerating across the Southeast Asian Sea.
The BMP’s resolute struggle for socialism in the Philippines
Rasti Delizo — The enduring struggle for the socialist transformation of the Philippines resolutely marches onward in the early half of the 21st century.
Walden Bello — Fascism is at the gates. How should we counter it?
Walden Bello — Two recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now.
Partido Lakas ng Masa condemns in the strongest possible terms the deadly covert operations conducted by US imperialism against the Filipino people during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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