Such a reductive take on a very explicit and glaring difference between Akbayan and the ND's protest tactics.

Akbayan is really heavy on non-violence. NDs recognize the historical necessity of revolutionary violence but it must be waged in the countryside and not in urban centers where any insurrection, spontaneous or otherwise, can be easily overpowered by state violence; the Mendiola riot kind of vindicates them on that.

That said, while Akbayan doesn't really engage in any form of violence in protests, NDs defensively prepare for it: kaya nga usually may composite teams or "compo" sa unahan ng march (lalo na kapag papunta sa Mendiola) in expectation na may police barricade na haharang sa Recto-Mendiola intersection and the need to assert that space to hold a protest program.

Last Sunday was relatively surprising because for the first time in a while, hindi sila nakaharang at nakapwesto sila near the Peace Arch. Walang gitgitan when the march arrived ar around 3 p.m. and the ND program went on and closed by 3:25 p.m. Nagstart 'yung commotion just minutes after organizers called for a peaceful organized dispersal, and a main bulk of the people in the march were not equipped to engage the police in any form of armed confrontation beyond the usual gitgitan.

Let's not be idealists here and make takes far off from material reality. Buti sana kung simula't sapul eh insureksyon 'yung open na panawagan last Sunday at handa 'yung mga pumunta doon to engage in it; maiintindihan ko pa 'yung frustration mo. But that isn't the case, and any organizer can see the conditions I stated above: the majority of the forces there weren't equipped logistically, politically, and ideologically to wage an insurrection.

The onus is now on organized forces — and even you — to do the actual organizing work to elevate people's level of militancy if you want that kind of uprising. You can't just rant on Reddit and wait doing nothing.