Diliman Commune

The Diliman Commune was a nine-day protest and occupation at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) campus in Quezon City from February 1 to 9, 1971. Students, faculty members and campus residents erected barricades and resisted attempts by police and constabulary forces to enter or clear the campus.

The first barricades were erected in support of striking jeepney drivers who opposed a three-centavo increase in fuel prices. The focus of the protest shifted toward university autonomy and academic freedom after mathematics professor Inocente Campos shot student Pastor "Sonny" Mesina Jr. and police and military forces entered the campus. During the occupation, protesters exercised effective control over much of the campus, operated the university radio station DZUP, used the UP Press and published a newspaper called Bandilang Pula.

The participants called themselves "Communards" and associated the occupation with the Paris Commune of 1871. The campus was referred to as the Malayang Komunidad ng UP Diliman ("Free Community of UP Diliman").