[OPINION] A path-breaking campaign for democratic socialism

'Unlike the other candidates whose backers subsidized huge rallies, we focused on having dialogues with marginalized communities...making sure we were accompanied by the press.' Opinion

These were bold demands seldom heard in Philippine elections owing to the timidity of the Left, and they resonated with people tired of motherhood statements from politicians attributing all ills not to structural and systemic inequalities and violence but to – you guessed it – corruption, corruption, corruption.

Creating maximum controversy was a way of maximizing our reach and showing people how we differed from other candidates, who tried their best to avoid strong, explicit attacks on one another and on one another’s program. Thus, we defined the elections as a battle against the Marcos-Duterte “axis of evil,” a description that stuck.

Of course, these high-visibility actions were not without risks. Aside from the Davao City Council declaring me persona non grata, Sara Duterte’s partisans labeled me a “narco-politician,” with the implied threat that I would be a candidate for extrajudicial execution for allegedly supporting the illegal drug trade, and sued me for libel to the tune of P10 million.

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