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The Diliman Commune was a nine-day uprising led by the students, faculty members, and residents of the University of the Philippines Diliman, on February 1–9, 1971 — about a year after the events of the First Quarter Storm and about a year before Marcos' eventual declaration of Martial Law.
Feb 1, 2021 · In what came to be known as the Diliman Commune, students spent more than a week avoiding fire, broadcasting anti-government propaganda, and building barricades that the military repeatedly tried...
Feb 1, 2021 · Fifty years ago from February 1 to 9, 1971, students and faculty of the University of the Philippines built barricades around the campus, in response to the three-centavo increase in oil prices in the Philippines. But it was more than just about oil prices.
Diliman. Commune. Feb. 1, 1971, Monday. Morning. Jeepney drivers resumed their strike; students led by Kabataang Makabayan and Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan (SDK) declared their support for the strike.
Jun 13, 2019 · The famed 1971 seizure of the UP Diliman campus and the formation of the ‘Diliman Commune’ was part of a coordinated campaign of barricades erected by the KM and SDK throughout Manila and beyond.
Feb 18, 2021 · From February 1 to 9 of 1971, students and faculty alike of the University of the Philippines Diliman staged a massive protest against oil price hikes and rampant corruption under the administration of then President Ferdinand Marcos.
Feb 9, 2021 · The early 70s was marked by social unrest caused by increased debt, inflation, and other social ills, creating, as Taguiwalo described it, a “hotbed of student activism.” She continues, “The Diliman Commune was but the latest of a series of student and youth activism in the country.
Jan 19, 2021 · Filipinos remembered the historic events that led to the long-running accord between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense after the latter terminated the...
Feb 4, 1971 · I was at the Diliman Commune, that historic event on February 1 to 9, 1971; the event showcasing the power of the militant solidarity of the UP community against military incursions into the university. Too many events had happened since then and I have bits and pieces of remembrance of those days, forty years ago.
Mar 5, 2021 · Students, with the support of faculty, staff and residents declared the campus a “liberated zone” which they dubbed the “Diliman Commune” in reference to the Paris Commune, the 1871 workers’ uprising in Paris whose 100 th anniversary was then being commemorated.
