Blogs

An excerpt from Errico Malatesta's "Anarchy" translated into Filipino.

An anarchist anthropological review of the Ifugao people who constructed elaborate rice terraces without forming a government structure.

A (hopefully) joke position paper by a fictitious maoist cell in Florida advocating the start of a protracted people's war in Florida everglades. Reproduced for archival purposes.

An introduction to Egoism for a Philippine audience.

An introduction to post-situtationist theory for a Philippine audience.

An article critiquing resilience in the context of work under capitalism.

An introduction to social ecological thinking for a Philippine audience.

The Twentieth Century saw the emergence of “total war”. Wars which are not just between armies but involve entire socio-economic formations and inflicted on the population at large. They are wars to the death with no negotiated outcome — only the “unconditional surrender” of the loser. Revolutionary Marxists call this “imperialist war”.

Comrades from abroad asked us for a brief report about the post-election situation here in the UK.

A reflection of exclusionary and toxic practices experienced in the activist spaces in the Philippine Left and on answering what it means to do activism.

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has recently identified a number of key issues which are becoming catastrophic for life on Earth. Climate change is only one of them but it’s top of the list.

An non-state and non-nationalist sketch for the archipelago known as the Philippines.

An anarchist reflection of the 1987 People Power Revolution which deposed the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

For the “remain” section of the capitalist class the unexpected result of the 2016 referendum meant they had lost control of the political process. Now the December general election has confirmed the “leavers” will be in control for the next 5 years.

Who is a “real activist”? Who is a real rebel? The militancy of the Black Bloc and the role of property destruction in campaigns and movements in the international activist community.

An introduction to Anarchy written in Filipino.

An anarchist proposal for an alternative to the Philippine nation-state organized through a confederation of communities. This proposal borrows heavily from the communalist framework of Murray Bookchin.

An analysis of the potential for anarchist tendencies in the Diliman Commune, a student uprising against the Marcos Administration.

The International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party was formed in 1983. In order to give clearer expression to our existence as a united international organisation we decided to change the name of the organisation to the Internationalist Communist Tendency in 2009.