Struggle for National Democracy

Mainly a compilation of Jose Maria Sison's speeches and essays in the years 1964-1968 while he was chairperson of Kabataang Makabayan, vice-chairperson/general secretary of the Socialist Party of the Philippines, and general secretary of the Movement for the Advancement of Nationalism.

From historian Teodoro A. Agoncillo's introduction to the first edition: "Jose Maria Sison's collection of essays and speeches, Struggle for National Democracy, boldy delineates the crucial problems of Filipinos today. These problems are seen as historical problems which have evolved from the national experience that has its roots deep in colonialism and feudalism. The thread that runs through the essays and speeches takes the form of a demand for national liberation and democracy—a painful admission that the Philippines is still very much a colony wrapped in a veneer of democracy. As such, the book is both a criticism and a plea: a grave criticism of inadequacy in all lines of endeavor and a passionate plea for the establishment of a real and working democracy in which the people, the masses of the people and not only the privileged few, would enjoy the blessings of a free and abundant life."

1st edition: 1967 (Quezon City: Progressive Publications)
2nd edition: 1972 (Manila: Amado V. Hernandez Memorial Foundation
3rd edition: 1995 (Quezon City: Lagda Publications)

Table of Contents (Third edition):
1. Author's preface to the 3rd edition
2. Introduction to the 2nd edition by Antonio Zumel
3. Introduction to the 1st edition by Teodoro Agoncillo
4. Kabataang Makabayan Founding Speech
5. National Freedom and Class Freedom
6. Self-Determination and Foreign Relations
7. Land Reform and National Democracy
8. Philippine Involvement in the Vietnam War
9. The Labor Movement
10. US Imperialism and Revolutionary Internationalism
11. The Need for a Cultural Revolution
12. The Mercenary Tradition in the AFP
13. The Tasks of the Second Propaganda Movement
14. The National Democratic Movement
15. National Democracy and Socialism
16. On the Standard Issues of the Day
17. Towards a National Democratic Teachers Movement
18. The Sophism of the Christian Social Movement
19. Anatomy of Philippine Politics
20. The Role of Recto
21. Student Power?
22. Message to Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan
23. Message to MAKIBAKA on the Women's Liberation Movement
24. Message to League of Editors for a Democratic Society
25. Message to Nagkakaisang Progresibong Artista-Arkitekto
26. Message to the Third national Congress of KM
27. Message to PAKSA on the Tasks of Cadres in the Cultural Field
26. In Memory of Carlos B. del Rosario

Please note: many digital copies, and some hard copies based on those digital copies, only contain the first half of the third edition (up until The Tasks of the Second Propaganda Movement).