Popoy Lagman remembered - inspiring Phillippino workers 12 years after his death

2013-02-10 · first published in marxsite · 127 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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By Merk Maguddayao ( Interasksyon ) February 10, 2013 7:04 AM Friends and family commemorate the 12th death anniversary of Ka Popoy Lagman at the steps to Bahay ng Alumni in UP, where he was gunned down by still unknown assassins. Mentioning the name Popoy Lagman will draw mixed reactions from people who know him or of him. To those he led and influenced, he was maverick master of polemics who never minced words in attacking the political follies of his party and comrades. He was fear-inspiring leader of the Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB), the dreaded Manila-based communist militia known for its vigilante operations against “enemies of the masses." He was also the tireless and feisty working-class leader who fought for socialism as an alternative to capitalism.