The sound of chainsaw came to a halt when the two men approached Noy Teodoro and Oring where they were sawing logs. Noy Teodoro realized it was their neighbors. Their militia. Almost two weeks had passed after Typhoon Pablo. They haven’t seen them until now. “Good morning, brod!” Noy Teodoro greeted his neighbors. “Good morning, […]

It wasn’t gloomy anymore and the strong wind has slowly subsided. It was only drizzling. Eloy stood up and looked around him. The rest of his family also got up. Their surroundings had suddenly become unfamiliar to them. Nothing was standing, neither house nor a tree nor even a person. It was as though the […]

(Editors’ Note: Months after Typhoon Pablo, the staff of Pasa Bilis! visited guerilla bases in the region to know the situation of the masses and the territories severely affected by the calamity. One of the most enjoyable was the conversation with a peasant activist in Barrio X. In the middle of a vast rice field, […]

HINTERLANDS OF DAVAO DEL NORTE—After a couple of hours of traversing hills and seemingly circuitous routes, from some distance, one can already see the lights emanating from the venue. And from the nearby river, one can hear the hubbub from the place—laughter, claps and ruckus of agitation from the masses and the comrades. It’s still […]

Eighty-five years span the period between Comrade Mao Zedong’s investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan in March 1927 and the historical militant peasant movement in the wake of Typhoon Pablo’s onslaught in Southern Mindanao in December 2012. In this series of articles, we looked back on the achievements of the peasants of Hunan and […]