Mark the 55th anniversary of the militancy of the Diliman Commune!

by: Zcharrina Miguela Villones

As the 55th anniversary of the Diliman Commune opens, the public must shed sentimentality and confront the event as it was: a collective rupture, a direct clash between an embattled state and a generation that refused submission. The Commune was not a campus spectacle, nor a youthful excess. It was a political act born from a state that had already turned its coercive machinery against its own people...