Can Communists Laugh? Recalling Vanishing Leftist Ditties of the Marcos Era

• Main Author: Abinales, Patricio N.;
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol63/iss1/6; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4067/viewcontent/6198.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This research note puts into record ditties sung by communist cadres in the 1970s and 1980s that were never part of the melodies approved by the Communist Party of the Philippines. The songs range from those chanted during marches and demonstrations to ballads about love and sexual opportunism insid...