The publication of Ulos 2024 is truly relevant and challenging. It is indeed a science, and an art as well, to adapt and respond to the what, why and how of the current context of our struggle through works such as poems, plays, balagtasan (poetic debate), song lyrics, drawings and sketches.

The selected works and sketches in Ulos 2024 were effective because they impacted and created varied impressions on readers. Heartwarming are the poems, letters and tribute essays for departed comrades, whose lives became “artistic” and “creative” for performing invaluable missions and duties for the national-democratic revolution. Its pages take the reader to a solemn reflection on various personal and social contradictions, but in the end it explains the correctness in choosing to pursue the selfless aspiration of revolution for the people and the classline.

The flow of written and visual arts was successful in bringing the reader to a higher understanding, higher morale and greater determination to become promoters of a culture of rectification.

It is in this spirit that the campaign and call to read the entire book of Ulos should continue! Combine it with reading of basic documents that need to be studied and analyzed. It is an excellent source of inspiration for conducting investigation meetings, organizing summaries, criticism and self-criticism, and other ideological, political and organizational tasks.

These days, especially in urban areas, the time alloted for reading, analysis, study and mass work has become an arena of struggle against the counter-flow of influence of improper use of the internet and social media. According to the Ulos 2024 preface, “changing mindsets and habits, individual and collective, is a cultural task.” If it is necessary to reshape the use of internet and social media, do it. If it is necessary to critically reject the petty-bourgeois influences from various materials and instruments attacking our proletarian spirit and habits, this must be achieved. Together let us critically and creatively promote a culture that stands against subjectivism and petty-bourgeois ideas and habits.