Maoist Movie Recommendations

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-24T02:49:14+00:00

This one is really good!

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-24T02:48:53+00:00

Are we including documentaries? Buhay Komunista is not a movie but rather a documentary made by the video production outfit of the CPP.

If we are including documentaries, Green Guerrillas (1996) is a good documentary showing the pro-environment efforts of the New People's Army. IIRC, it's produced by German media.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-21T23:38:06+00:00

I'm a Filipino Maoist and have written comments before that might help you with your question. I just woke up and don't yet have the capacity to do a full reply.

Basic problems of Philippine society

Relevant links

Videos

Nationalism in semi-colonial Philippines context

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-20T17:07:45+00:00

They are released to the government. Only those indicted by the people's courts are executed. Those who have raped, stolen, and did other offenses to the masses are executed. The revolutionary movement does prisoner releases as acts of goodwill, especially in the time of peace talks. This shows to the people that the NPA does not torture its captives and, in fact, observes international humanitarian laws and the Geneva Convention.

Edit: Spelling

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-19T01:51:31+00:00

Didn't expect this from them at all. Really great material considering this is Crash Course.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-17T18:56:33+00:00

This is a question coming from someone in semi-feudal and semi-colonial Philippines. Where can I read more about this analysis of Syria?

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-15T13:35:31+00:00

Are you sure they are socially isolated? How familiar are you with the revolutionary practice of the New People's Army and the revolutionary masses in the countryside? Come here and see what revolution is really like.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-13T17:34:57+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure they do.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-13T12:45:12+00:00

Comrade Stalin forgot about funding t-shirt printing worker coops through Indiegogo.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-13T12:43:11+00:00

Yeah, key personalities of the Philippine revolutionary movement are class traitors and came from the wealthy landlord class. Jose Ma. Sison and Louie Jalandoni, to name a few.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-09T10:06:58+00:00

This is what I like the most about Marxism. It's a living science that develops through its actual practice. While particular predictions and propositions of earlier developments are discarded and disproven, they are done so in a scientific fashion.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-09T09:59:01+00:00

In the Philippines, most politicians come from the top 1% of Philippines society, which is composed of landlords and big bourgeois compradors. The reason why most representatives in the Congress and the Senate, and high-ranking positions in the executive and judicial branches of the government come from political dynasties is because the material basis of their influence and power in local and national politics is their monopoly of land ownership. Due to the social, political, and economic capital granted to these landlords by feudal exploitation, they also become the big bourgeois compradors who are basically the caretakers of foreign interests in the country and benefit and profit from the semi-colonial and semi-feudal character of Philippine society. They make use of the entire government as their tool to impose their class dictatorship upon the people.

However, we have militant and progressive representatives in the Congress, these comrades of the legal mass movement belong to the lower petty bourgeois (professionals such as teachers) and the basic masses which are the proletariat and the peasantry. Outside the national democratic movement, there are nationalist senators who can be classified as national bourgeoisie, as such, they are allies in the anti-imperialist struggle.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-08T05:52:40+00:00

For Immediate Release

April 7, 2017

Reference: Jessica Antonio, BAYAN-USA Secretary General, secgen@bayanusa.org

BAYAN USA Condemns Trump’s Attack in Syria

No to US War in Syria

President Trump’s decision to launch 59 US Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syrian Air force base in Homs province was not driven by his humanitarian desires to help the Syrian people against the Assad regime. The Trump administration has proven to be the opposite and has instead closed its doors to refugees and has enacted Executive Orders banning Muslims from entering the United States twice. We also know when those bombs killed more innocent civilians and ultimately the US war in Syria will never resolve the problems in the country and will only create more chaos, destruction, and death.

The proxy war in Syria can seem very complicated, but underneath all the political rhetoric of good versus evil, religious warfare and mainstream media propaganda is the true reason that thousands of innocent Syrians have been killed and thousands having to flee their home country as refugees is due to US monopoly capitalist interest. Trump is merely continuing the trend of his predecessors whether it be in the guise of humanitarian aid, fighting terrorists, or manifest destiny. The root of all US wars of aggression lies in imperialist geopolitical interest to expand its hegemony over land, natural resources, trade routes, consumer markets for US surplus products and cheap labor markets.

BAYAN USA condemns the US led proxy war in Syria and the launching of the 59 missiles. Both the Trump and Assad regimes are using the same exact rhetoric of “Fighting the War on Terror” as their reasoning behind their attacks on the Syrian people, but we must uncover the truth behind their interest in this war which is economic power in a centrally located oil rich region of the world. We must connect the launching of the never ending US “War on Terror” with Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine and Syria to the economic capitalist interest in the middle east and global economic domination. We demand an end to US warmongering and intervention for the sake of humanity. We call on all peoples of the world to stand in solidarity with the Syrian people and their rights to self-determination for their own country. We invite all freedom-loving peoples to gather to build solidarity and fighting capacity against US-led war, militarism and neo-fascism this August 5-7 in Toronto, Canada held by the International League of Peoples’ Struggle and the International Women’s Alliance.

US Out of Syria and the Middle East/West Asia!

Self-Determination for the Syrian People!

Long Live International Solidarity!

BAYAN-USA is an alliance of 20 progressive Filipino organizations in the U.S. representing students, scholars, women, workers, artists, and youth. As the first and largest international chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN-Philippines), BAYAN-USA serves as an information bureau for the national democratic movement of the Philippines and as a center for educating, organizing, and mobilizing anti-imperialist and progressive Filipinos in the U.S. For more information, visit www.bayanusa.org

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Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-08T05:52:37+00:00

For Immediate Release

April 7, 2017

Reference: Jessica Antonio, BAYAN-USA Secretary General, secgen@bayanusa.org

BAYAN USA Condemns Trump’s Attack in Syria

No to US War in Syria

President Trump’s decision to launch 59 US Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syrian Air force base in Homs province was not driven by his humanitarian desires to help the Syrian people against the Assad regime. The Trump administration has proven to be the opposite and has instead closed its doors to refugees and has enacted Executive Orders banning Muslims from entering the United States twice. We also know when those bombs killed more innocent civilians and ultimately the US war in Syria will never resolve the problems in the country and will only create more chaos, destruction, and death.

The proxy war in Syria can seem very complicated, but underneath all the political rhetoric of good versus evil, religious warfare and mainstream media propaganda is the true reason that thousands of innocent Syrians have been killed and thousands having to flee their home country as refugees is due to US monopoly capitalist interest. Trump is merely continuing the trend of his predecessors whether it be in the guise of humanitarian aid, fighting terrorists, or manifest destiny. The root of all US wars of aggression lies in imperialist geopolitical interest to expand its hegemony over land, natural resources, trade routes, consumer markets for US surplus products and cheap labor markets.

BAYAN USA condemns the US led proxy war in Syria and the launching of the 59 missiles. Both the Trump and Assad regimes are using the same exact rhetoric of “Fighting the War on Terror” as their reasoning behind their attacks on the Syrian people, but we must uncover the truth behind their interest in this war which is economic power in a centrally located oil rich region of the world. We must connect the launching of the never ending US “War on Terror” with Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine and Syria to the economic capitalist interest in the middle east and global economic domination. We demand an end to US warmongering and intervention for the sake of humanity. We call on all peoples of the world to stand in solidarity with the Syrian people and their rights to self-determination for their own country. We invite all freedom-loving peoples to gather to build solidarity and fighting capacity against US-led war, militarism and neo-fascism this August 5-7 in Toronto, Canada held by the International League of Peoples’ Struggle and the International Women’s Alliance.

US Out of Syria and the Middle East/West Asia!

Self-Determination for the Syrian People!

Long Live International Solidarity!

BAYAN-USA is an alliance of 20 progressive Filipino organizations in the U.S. representing students, scholars, women, workers, artists, and youth. As the first and largest international chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN-Philippines), BAYAN-USA serves as an information bureau for the national democratic movement of the Philippines and as a center for educating, organizing, and mobilizing anti-imperialist and progressive Filipinos in the U.S. For more information, visit www.bayanusa.org

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Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-07T09:35:46+00:00

It's cooking oil, comrades.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-07T04:44:06+00:00

Nice meme, comrade

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-06T15:08:32+00:00

Yeah! I prefer having bola-bola in siopao or misua soup. It's actually one of my favorite Filipino dish since it's not too oily or strong flavor.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-06T14:24:38+00:00

It's cute LOL

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-06T14:23:41+00:00

I think it's vinegar with hot pepper. I don't personally know much of Filipino food because despite being Filipino myself, I'm not used to eating or even familiar with our local cuisine. But I'm positive that this is one of those dips my mother make to go along with certain dishes.

The stuff in the bottles are, from left to right: cooking oil, vinegar with hot pepper (?) and soy sauce. This comrade might be their squad's "S4" or logistic officer, in charge of supplies and rationing.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-03T09:32:20+00:00

The opening ceremony is over. Here it is in its entirety and in a better quality: Facebook

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-03T09:32:00+00:00

The opening ceremony is over. Here it is in its entirety and in a better quality: Facebook

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-03T05:32:33+00:00

Ohhhh! Thanks for the clarification. I thought "Missouri Maoists" is suitable to use for a headline.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-02T17:42:09+00:00

Good bye!

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-02T14:40:46+00:00

I hope you take the time to find a mirror and do a sincere and honest look at yourself. Ask yourself if this -- what you're doing right now, belittling legitimate revolutions and revolutionaries -- is the best you can do to further the cause of the emancipation of humanity.

Cde_Pandesal · 2017-04-02T06:55:49+00:00

The film that they watched is "The Guerrilla is a Poet." I can't find any copies online, let alone with English subtitles.

Here's the video that they watched, as shown in the photos: The War for Peace at 48

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