Tag: English

Literature written in English.

covid-19 lockdown: quarantine reflections

Post author By Bandilang Itim
Post date 2020/03/30

Original article written by sze-tao.

“This is not martial law. Our enemy is the virus.”

— some poor politician in Malacañang (living a simple life & shops at Jaeger-LeCoult ((Shoppers mob, take selfies with Duterte in upscale mall. Virgil Lopez. GMA News Online. May 7, 018. https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/652465/shoppers-mob-take-selfies-with-duterte-in-upscale-mall/story/)))

Inhale slowly 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004. exhale slowly 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004.

We are in 1984. the Marcos nightmare is back.

Tags COVID-19, English, sze-tao

Gasera Journal Republished

Three Stars and a Sun [bahay kubo kahit munti]

Post author By Bandilang Itim
Post date 2020/03/11

Article by dagami, originally published in gasera journal.

This is a republished article written by anarchists in the archipelago known as the Philippines or its diaspora. We at Bandilang Itim wish to highlight and disseminate these works to better propagate the ideas of anarchism and libertarian socialism in the archipelago.

Tags anti-nationalism, dagami, English

Republished

The Ifugao—People without Government

Post author By Bandilang Itim
Post date 2020/03/03

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This is an excerpt from People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy by Harold Barclay. We are republishing this excerpt for its value to anarchists in the archipelago known as the Philippines.

Tags anthropology, English, Harold Barclay

Issue 1 Original Writing

What is Egoism?

Post author By Bandilang Itim
Post date 2020/03/01

Original article by Tadano, published by Bandilang Itim.

Egoism is named after the word “ego,” which is latin for “I.” Everyone around us has an ego for which, Max Stirner understood that we all have a drive to serve ourselves and the I, the self. This philosophical observation is also often seen in the sciences, as any serious scientist studying in the field of psychology or zoology can tell you that humans act for their own self-interest. It is then asked, is altruism a case against egoism? The answer is no, for which even Stirner argues that even altruism is a form of egoism on its own. Stirner said that altruism and cooperation—and even community—is made because it serves our ego in a way. Why do we work with other people? For our own interests. This is the meat and flesh of egoism, it’s not at all complicated.

Tags egoism, English, individualist anarchism, Tadano

Issue 1 Original Writing

Intervention on the Filipino Mindspace: Identity and Belonging in an age of Social Media

Post author By Bandilang Itim
Post date 2020/02/28

The Social Media Mindspace

Original article by APS, originally published on his blog, revised for Bandilang Itim.

Attorney Oli Reyes mentioned in a viral tweet how foreign youtubers were taking advantage of the Filipino need for global validation to garner more views – and therefore, ad revenue. But what is going on here? What does that mean for us as people? Does anyone care?

Tags APS, English, Post-Situationist

Issue 1 Original Writing

“Di ka naman tunay na aktibista”

Post author By Bandilang Itim
Post date 2020/02/27

A student protest. Image licensed for reuse by Bro. Jeffrey Pioquinto, SJ.

Original article by Adrienne Onday.

Alternate title for republishing purposes: “You’re not radical enough”: Reflections on Philippine Leftist Exclusionism

When I was an undergrad, I had to fight so many people to allow my voice and opinions to be heard. The central point of my struggle as a young activist then was to get formally organized activists to realize that speaking up is a form of action, too; that not being part of any organization or not being as physically and publicly active in political struggles as they were didn’t mean you weren’t one; that just because someone isn’t doing activism and radicalism the exact same way the established Left does, doesn’t mean they aren’t activists or radicals.

Tags activism, Adrienne Onday, English

Gasera Journal Republished

Sketches of an Archipelagic Poetics of Postcolonial Belonging

Post author By Bandilang Itim
Post date 2020/02/25

Article by maryamdeluz, originally published in gasera journal.

One of the great ironies of anti-imperialist movements in the Global South is that, despite their purported goal of liberating themselves from western cultural hegemony and political control, they arguably have yet to decolonise them selves of western imperialist logics; for example, those Enlightenment-derived logics pertaining to the transcendence of reason, the human, and the nation-state.

Tags anarchism, anti-nationalism, English, maryamdeluz

Issue 1 Original Writing

Blossoms of an Aborted Revolution

Post author By Bandilang Itim
Post date 2020/02/25

Original analysis by Malaginoo.

Let us not mince our words. The EDSA Revolution has failed.

If you look around at the state of society in our archipelago, you can see clear parallels to the horrors of 1972. A dictator, with the military and police in the palm of his hand, supported by sycophants blindly loyal to his person and by local and foreign capitalist interests, brutally murdering and terrorizing the poor, and the dissidents who fight for them.

It’s as if we never woke up from the nightmare.