This gathering of essays by cultural critic-scholar E. San Juan Jr. represents a timely intervention in the global crisis of US imperialist hegemony and the advent of a multipolar world. The opening chapter remembering Apolinario Mabini is a symbolic gesture of refusing the present oppressive, unjust status quo. In other chapters, San Juan explores the morbid symptoms of servility plaguing the neocolony’s labor-export policy and educational system. With the return of the Marcos dynasty and its feudal/comprador entourage, we are confronted with the expansion of US military logistics and troops geared for an all-out war against China, the Bangsamoro people, and the resurgent national-democratic spirit of various communities in the islands and in the diaspora, a theme rehearsed in the interview with the author in the concluding chapter.

Author: E. San Juan Jr.,
ISBN/ISSN: 9786210900798
Category: Social Sciences; Political Science; History
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 196pp
Dimensions: 7 x 0.5 x 10 in.
Type: PB/SP