NIGHT OF MAKING PURE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION

By Mauro Gia Samonte

WEDNESDAY was the day I made for finishing Alaalang Magbabalik, one of four films contemplated as entries in a movie festival to be held end of November. The Iglesia ni Cristo is in the process of popularizing its concept of INCinema,  among various activities being vigorously pursued by the church in anticipation of the grand centennial celebration of the INC in 2014. In an effort to lend a hand in the undertaking, the Ecclesiastical District of Rizal had thought of conducting the festival. The District had been divided into four groups, each group to do a movie as its entry in the festival. Because all those who would be participating in the activity, whether cast or production staff, would be amateurs, a professional filmmaker was needed to train them in the craft of filmmaking. The task was assigned to me by the INC District Staff.

PRELUDE TO WORKERS LIBERATION

By Mauro Gia Samonte

The struggle of 2,200 former Pantranco workers to recover back wages, retirement and separation pays has turned into a saga setting the stage for what truly is in store for Philippine workers. They won money claims amounting to P722.7 million, the biggest ever award won by workers in a labor case in the Philippines in so many years. The victory thus impacts upon the entire labor movement in the country.

Where the Pantranco workers’ case goes can be where the Philippine labor movement as a whole will.

                               

TWEETING THE REVOLUTION

By Mauro Gia Samonte

Part 3: KOMUN: Solution to Working Class Dilemma 

Our last post has given rise to this issue: The working class not buying capitalist goods is tantamount to committing suicide.

How, indeed, can workers live without buying capitalist goods?

Surely, workers not buying capitalist goods would send capitalism crashing, but by that act their own lifeblood would go crashing as well.

This is the dilemma today's revolutionary must overcome. 

The idea is not "not buying capitalist goods" but "not buying from capitalism".

TWEETING THE REVOLUTION

By Mauro Gia Samonte

Part 2: Capitalism Reduced To Basics

IT won’t help any to engage in highfalutin scholarly pedantry to get us an understanding of what capitalism is. 

Capitalism is a system whereby one produces and sells what the other consumes. Capitalism therefore thrives on the buying by consumers of the products of the producers, called capitalists. Without this relationship capitalism cannot exist.