Rebolusyon!: A Generation of Struggle in the Philippines (Voices of resistance) - Softcover

Pimentel, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853458235 ISBN 13: 9780853458234

Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S., 1991

Synopsis

In 1969, Ferdinand Marcos won a second term as president, in one of the dirtiest campaigns in Philippine history. That same year, Edgar Jopson was elected president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines, in a campaign to keep the Communists out of the student movement. Thirteen years later Jopson was gunned down by the military during a raid on an underground safehouse. He was by then one of the most wanted people in the country, with a price on his head, a leading Communist Party cadre and member of the urban underground. Jopson was an unusual individual, and his story is a fascinating one. Yet his experiences were those of a generation of student radicals that came of age in the 1970s, and galvanized a country to action in the 1980s. Thus this book is not just the biography of one person, it is the history of a generation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853458235
• ISBN 13: 9780853458234
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350