In the Philippines, ‘Diliman Commune’ a renewed symbol of resistance 50 years on

In 1971, a sprawling university campus north of Manila became the site of a student-led uprising as public anger over surging oil prices reached its peak.On February 1, the students and some teaching staff came out in sympathy with striking transport workers, boycotting classes and barricading themselves inside the University of the Philippines’ (UP) Diliman campus for eight days against soldiers firing tear gas and a professor who shot and killed a student.The uprising, which came to be known…