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Philippine Activists Hear Cuban Youth
By Aaron Ruby and Marnie Kennedy, The , 3 July 1995. Cuban youth leader Alejandro Herrera Agete addressed dozens of workers and students here during a seven-day tour. Three Philippine groups—SANLAKAS, the League of Filipino Students (LFS), and Amistad, a solidarity group with the Cuban revolution—invited the Union of Young Communists (UJC) of Cuba leader.
A new First Quarter Storm?
Commentary by Eloy A. Calimoso, Philippine National Inquirer, Monday 17 January 2000. Between January and March 1970, militant students, workers and farmers staged demonstrations to protest oil price hikes, graft and corruption in government, and the worsening economic situation. This period of politicization marked by the series of massive protest marches have come to be known among activists and political observers as the First Quarter Storm, or simply the FQS.
Students demand end to ‘bankrupt Estrada regime’
By Herman M. Lagon, Visayas News Bureau, The Manila Times, 26 November 2000. Thousands of students and young people from all over Iloilo province demand an immediate end to the bankrupt Estrada regime, the ouster of the most popular Filipino President since Ramon Magsaysay.
Democratic Association of the Youth-Philippines (SDK)
From the Democratic Association of the Youth-Philippines (SDK), 28 December 2003. A progressive youth organization in the Philippines. SDK calls for the systemic change in our society, which is controlled by ruling corporate elite. It envisions a society governed by the toiling masses and practice direct and participatory democracy.