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Troubling history of fractured Philippine left
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Lost Vision: The Philippine Left
1986–2010
by Ken Fuller
(University of the
Philippines Press, £35.65)
IN THIS final part of Ken Fuller’s trilogy on Philippine communism, which covers the post-Marcos years, the author makes clear that Lost Vision is to be read not as its obituary but as a plea for the movement’s living fragments to regain a unified focus.
Those picking up this third volume on its own will find Fuller’s prologue concisely summarises the preceding book A Movement Divided, which deals with the 1960s Maoist breakaway of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) from the original Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP-1930).
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