First Quarter Strom

Resolution Commending the Revolutionary Courage of the Heroic Defenders of the Diliman Commune Against the Fascist State and its Campus Collaborators

February 13, 1971


Published: February 13, 1971;
Source: Reproduced in “A Commune Like Any Other” by Manuel L. Quezon III;
Markup: Simoun Magsalin;
Copyright: No specific copyrights.


WHEREAS, the UP Student Council has expressed solidarity with the Filipino people in their valiant struggle against the American imperialist oil cartel and its local bureaucrat-capitalist allies;

WHEREAS ,The UPSC has endorsed the barricade as a form of protest against such evils;

WHEREAS, the UPSC vehemently condemns the the fascist-puppet State and its campus agents for employing brutally sadistic methods in suppressing legitimate dissent;

WHEREAS, the UPSC salutes the militant resistance put up by the broad United Front of progressive students, faculty members, non-academic workers, and campus residents who resolutely struggled to defend and liberate the University;

BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the UPSC commend the revolutionary courage of the heroic defenders of the Diliman Commune against the fascist State and its campus collaborators:

Approved unanimously...

(sgd.) Ericson M. Baculinao, Chairman;
(sgd.) June C. Pagaduan, Secretary;
sponsor: Herminio B. Caloma, Jr., Councilor, Arts and Sciences.

February 13, 1971