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Makabayan
Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan; ) is a coalition of twelve party-lists in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It was founded on April 16, 2009. The founding assembly was held at UP Theatre, Diliman, Quezon City. Party-lists Thirteen party-lists are part of Makabayan: * Bayan Muna * Teachers: Alliance of Concerned Teachers * Workers and peasants: Anakpawis * Women: GABRIELA (General Assembly Binding Women for Integrity, Reform, Equality, Leadership and Action) Women's party * Youth: Kabataan * Indigenous people: Katribu * Migrants: Migrante * Children's rights: Akap-bata * Government employees: COURAGE (Confederation for Unity Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees) * Drivers: Piston * Green party: Kalikasan * Bicolano people: Aking Bikolnon * Moro people: Suara Bangsamoro In 2016, the Commission on Elections disqualified the Akap Bata and Katribu partylists for failure to acquire the necessary votes. Coalition Makabayan also includes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabataan
Kabataan, also known as the Kabataan Partylist (KPL, ) and formerly known as Ang Nagkakaisang Kabataan Para sa Sambayanan (ANAK ng BAYAN, ), is a partylist in the Philippines affiliated with the leftist political coalition Makabayan. It is currently represented by Raoul Manuel at the Philippine Congress since 2022. According to its website, the partylist represents the youth sector, and aims to "galvanize the Filipino youth’s unity for social change," believing that the youth should "devote its intellect, energy, and courage to building a new society devoid of corruption, inequality, and social injustice." The partylist was first formed in 2001 in the aftermath of the Second EDSA Revolution, and vied for a seat in the Congress in the 2004 elections, where they failed to secure a single seat. However, they managed to secure a single seat in the succeeding elections since then. History Formation The origins of Kabataan can be traced back to the youth group Estrada Resign Youth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anakbayan
Anakbayan (; abbreviated as AB) is a comprehensive, militant Left-wing politics, left-wing youth-led national democratic mass organization in the Philippines. It is part of the broader Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, a multisectorial alliance of Left-wing politics, left-wing political organizations in the Philippines. Ideology Anakbayan subscribes to the National Democracy Movement (Philippines), national democracy movement, a Filipino left-wing alliance of various Socialism, socialist, Communism, communist, and Marxism–Leninism–Maoism, Marxist–Leninist–Maoist organizations that oppose foreign imperialism, Concentration of land ownership, landlordism, Monopoly, monopolistic capitalism, and corrupt government officials. It is an Activism, activist group that advocates for jobs, livable wages, land reform, education, social services, justice, and human rights. History Background Formed on Bonifacio Day (30 November) 1998, Anakbayan unites Filipino youth aged 18 to 35 fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan () or Bayan is an alliance of left-wing Philippine organizations. It was founded on International Workers' Day, May 1, 1985 as part of the opposition during the Marcos dictatorship. Politics Ideology The principle of Bayan is National Democracy, which is based on Marxism–Leninism–Maoism, similar to CPP- NPA- NDFP. It believes that: *The Philippines is rich in natural resources but the Filipino people are deprived of it; *The history of the Philippines is the history of class struggle; *Imperialism, Feudalism and Bureaucratic Capitalism is the root of poverty; and *A National-Democratic Revolution is the solution to end the roots of poverty However, unlike underground revolutionary organizations such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, its armed wing the New People's Army and its united front the National Democratic Front, members of Bayan do not take up arms. They participate in the urban mass movement, which are the dual tactics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neri Colmenares
Neri Javier Colmenares (, born December 4, 1959) is a Filipino human rights lawyer and activist. He was an associate of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School when he was completing his Ph.D. in law on "The Writ of Amparo and the International Criminal Court." He also lectured at the University of Melbourne on International Human Rights Law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. He was an aspirant in the 2019 senatorial elections, and is a candidate for the 2022 Philippine Senate elections as part of the 1Sambayan Senate slate. Early life Born in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Colmenares joined the struggle against the late former President Ferdinand Marcos' leadership in 1976. He was active in the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) and the Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP), and became the Visayas regional chair of the Student Catholic Action (SCA). Soon after becoming a national council member of SCA, he was arrested. Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayan Muna
Bayan Muna () is a party-list in the Philippines, a member of the leftist political coalition Makabayan. The motto of the party is ''"New Politics, the Politics of Change"'', against "traditional, elitist, pro-imperialist politics". Its platform includes the advocation of a government that progressively supports the working class, with meaningful representation of all democratic sectors in the Philippines. Bayan Muna was the second most popular party-list party in the 2007 Philippine elections. In 2009, Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo and former Bayan Muna and incumbent Gabriela Representative Liza Maza ran for senate seats as guest candidates under the ticket of billionaire real estate magnate Senator Manny Villar. Ocampo said that their common objective “is to emancipate the people from widespread poverty and social injustice." Electoral performance 2007 elections In the weeks leading up the Philippine national election, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, on behalf of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Student Christian Movement Of The Philippines
The Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP) is a youth ecumenical national democratic mass organization in the Philippines. It aims to uphold students rights and participates in numerous local and worldwide peoples' advocacies. As with other SCMs around the world, SCMP is a member of the World Student Christian Federation. In the Philippines, it is an associate member of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and Kalipunan ng Kristiyanong Kabataan sa Pilipinas (KKKP). It is also a member and a founding organization of Kabataan Partylist. Orientation SCMP is a national-democratic ecumenical mass organization of Christian students in the Philippines. As Christians, they believe that faith alone cannot solve structural problems in the Philippines, and poverty and injustice must also be solved through action, programs, and a national-democratic alternative. Economically, the group believes in establishing genuine agrarian reform, then national indust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anakpawis
Anakpawis is a party-list in the Philippines. The party-list is the electoral wing of the radical trade union movement Kilusang Mayo Uno and the peasant group Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas. Known for its radical pro-labor and peasant stand, Anakpawis is known for its campaign for a ₱125 across-the-board wage increase for workers, as well as the genuine agrarian reform bill to redistribute land to landless peasants. In the 2004 elections for the House of Representatives the party-list obtained 538,396 votes (4.2320% of the nationwide vote) and two seats ( Crispin B. Beltran and Rafael V. Mariano). /ref> In the May 14, 2007 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Of Concerned Teachers
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT-Teachers) is a progressive and militant national democratic mass organization of teachers, academics, and other education workers in the Philippines, established on June 26, 1982. It is the largest non-traditional teachers' organization in the country, and campaigns for the economic and political rights of teachers and other education workers as well as on wider social and political issues. History In 1989, ACT succeeded in its campaign for higher wages of $32 a month as well as improved benefits for teachers. This was achieved after public school teachers went on strike from July 24 to August 12. On September 30, 2005, national council member of the ACT Vitoria Samonte was murdered, an act which was called a human rights violation. Another national council member, Napoleon Pornasdoro, was murdered on February 27, 2006. They were also general secretary of the Southern Tagalog Teachers for Development. Objectives ACT's stated objective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives Of The Philippines
The House of Representatives of the Philippines ( fil, Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ng Pilipinas, italic=unset, ''Kamara'' or ''Kamara de Representantes'' from the Spanish language, Spanish word ''cámara'', meaning "chamber") is the lower house of Congress of the Philippines, Congress, the bicameral legislature of the Philippines, with the Senate of the Philippines as the upper house. The lower house is usually called Congress, although the term collectively refers to both houses. Members of the House are officially styled as ''representative'' (''kinatawan'') and sometimes informally called ''congressmen'' or ''congresswomen'' (''mga kongresista'') and are elected to a three-year term. They can be re-elected, but cannot serve more than three consecutive terms except with an interruption of one term like the senate. Around eighty percent of congressmen are district representatives, representing a particular geographical area. The 19th Congress has 253 Congressional districts of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Filipino Students
The League of Filipino Students ( fil, Kapisanan ng mga Pilipinong Mag-Aaral}, abbreviated as LFS) is a student-led national democratic mass organization and movement organized during the martial law era in the Philippines on September 11, 1977. It claims to be the leading anti-imperialist organization of the Filipino youth, under the ideological line of national democracy. It is part of the broader movement known as Bagong Alyansang Makabayan. Brief History The League of Filipino Students started on September 11, 1977, as an alliance against tuition fee increases and school repression during the Martial law era. During the Marcos regime, students were principal protesters against the government. While the League focused on broad and unifying issues, including the restoration of student councils and governments in the Philippines, it has directed its attack against the government with the use of student protests, strikes, and mobilizations. The assassination of Benigno Aquino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satur Ocampo
Saturnino "Satur" Cunanan Ocampo (born April 7, 1939) is a Filipino politician, activist, journalist, and writer. As party president and first nominee, he led the party-list group Bayan Muna in three successful elections in 2001, 2004, and 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives, and Deputy Minority Leader in the 14th Congress of the Philippines. He has done work in human rights and other areas. After his three terms as representative, he ran for senator in the May 2010 elections; then-Representative Liza Maza of the women's partylist group GABRIELA and Ocampo were fielded by the Makabayan coalition and were included as guest senatorial candidates of the Nacionalista Party, a mainstream Philippine political party whose presidential standard bearer, Senator Manny Villar, they supported. After the elections, on August 21, 2010, Ocampo started a weekly opinion column in the ''Philippine Star'' titled "At Ground Level". Activism Ocampo was a business editor of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left-wing Nationalism
Left-wing nationalism or leftist nationalism, also known as social nationalism, is a form of nationalism based upon national self-determination, popular sovereignty, national self-interest, and left-wing political positions such as social equality. Left-wing nationalism can also include anti-imperialism and national liberation movements.Smith 1999, 30. Left-wing nationalism often stands in contrast to right-wing politics and right-wing nationalism. Overview Terms such as ''nationalist socialism'', ''social nationalism'' and ''socialist nationalism'' are not to be confused with the German fascism espoused by the Nazi Party which called itself National Socialism. This ideology advocated the supremacy and territorial expansion of the German nation. Some left-wing nationalist groups have historically used the term ''national socialism'' for themselves, albeit only before the rise of the Nazis or outside Europe. Since the Nazis' rise to prominence, ''national socialism'' has becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
