Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 December
“Seizing the Momentum: The Communist Resistance in Cebu during the Anti-Marcos Struggle, 1972–1986”
Mr. Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya
ABSTRACT:
The talk makes use of archival material and oral narratives to retrieve the history of the communist resistance to the Marcos regime in Cebu from 1972 to 1986, focusing on one of the Philippines’ major urban centers outside the National Capital Region during the anti-dictatorship struggle. From being relegated by the Communist Party of the Philippines to the role of building clandestine support networks for rural guerrilla warfare in neighboring islands, Metro Cebu became a key site of politico-military contestation as insurgents responded to the ascending trajectory of contentious politics across the country in the mid-1980s. The fall of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986, however, inaugurated a period of the long decline of the communist insurgency in the island parallel to the rise of the “Ceboom” phenomenon.
Date: December 21, 2024
Category: Vicente Sotto Lecture Series