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Are you interested in Marxism? Do you want to read Capital and discuss it in a relaxed and safe environment online? Meet other book lovers who are also interested in Marxism? Or you have had this unfulfilled challenge to yourself since college to read Marx in your lifetime?

Join our first Marxist Reading Group this July!

Marxist Reading Group We’ll read Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy (Volume 1) together as a group: share our thoughts, explore the text, discuss the ideas, and build a community with an interest …

"Let us point it directly, as a critique and auto-critique: our Islamic faith is a bourgeois faith. One that perpetuates selfishness and personal desire, diminishes solidarity, increases the pride of material luxury over social inequality"

Developing Islamic Materialism: Toward the Struggle of the Political Economy of Progressive Islam 11 AUGUST 2016, a couple of poor peasants named Suhartono and Sulistiorini were found dead in a paddy field of Butuh Village, Keras Subdistrict, Kediri. They both committed su***de by drinking pois…

Maraming salamat National Book Development Board - Philippines! Nakatutuwang isipin na nasa panig pala kayo ng aming mga regular mambabasa na talagang naniniwala sa pagpapabagsak sa mamatay-tao at pasistang rehimen noon ni Duterte at ng kanyang mga kasangkot at sa pasista, mamamatay-taong rehimen ng mandarambong/magnanakaw na pamilya Marcos sa kasalukuyan na nasa loon na muli ng Malakanyang Malas. Salamat at naging kakampi namin kayo sa pagsangga sa Philippine Literary Mafia na ngayon ang ilan sa kanila hinihimod na ang puwet ng mga Marcos at nagiging produktibo, very useful sa pasistang gubyerno. Sana maging kasama namin kayo hanggang sa huli sa na pagpapasara ng mamamatay-Filipinong Armed Forces of the Philippines at Philippine National Police at sa paglaban para mapanatili ang freedom of expression sa Pilipinas. Mabuhay at patuloy na pabagsakin ang gubyerno ng mga mandarambong na Marcos at lansagin ang patriyarkal at matapobreng Philippine Literary Establishment! 🏴😍✊🏼

ANNOUNCEMENT!

April reprint of Amado Anthony Mendoza III's book 'Aklat ng mga Naiwan'. Send your reservations here: https://forms.gle/DEDYCMVVx4TCQMRG7

First come first served and we'll close the form as soon as we hit the quota.

Also, we are trying to empty our bodega before June for other Balangiga titles, send us a query through this form if you are interested in other titles and if we still have stock.

JUST IN. Congratulations to Kristine Ong Muslim and A.A. Mendoza III for winning the 2023 PEN/HEIM Translation Fund in the US for the novel 'Aklat ng mga Naiwan'.

Another win for independent writing and publishing in the Philippines.

Rogelio Braga’s 2017 book of stories ‘May Rush Hour Ba Sa Third World Country?’ (translation by Kristine Ong Muslim and introduction by Eric Abalajon) will be launched in London this December. This is the first Balangiga Press book to be translated in another language.

And this the first book of short stories translated into English and published outside of the Philippines 🇵🇭- and the first in the United Kingdom🇬🇧.

We have a new book available for PRE-ORDER!
Rogelio Braga’s ‘Is There Rush Hour in a Third World Country?’, translated by Kristine Ong Muslim:

https://www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/pre-order-is-there-rush-hour-in-a-third-world-country

‘Call centre agents and migrant workers, soldiers and charity workers, fresh university graduates and street children — they all navigate the myriad of avenues in which their desires are entangled within the Philippines’ harsh and unforgiving conditions of migration and labour in Rogelio Braga’s collection of stories, Is There Rush Hour in A Third World Country? Now translated by Kristine Ong Muslim into English, the collection offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Filipinos, told amidst coup d’états, active conflict areas, late-night convenience store rendezvous, and bumper-to-bumper Manila traffic, given a considered dignity and nuance by one of the Philippines’ celebrated playwrights.’

Jude Diaz: "Hindi ko noon maintindihan kumbakit ganito kahaba ang titulo ng akda pero nung nabasa ko na ang mga kwento, mas naunawaan ko na ito. Ang kawalang katiyakan ng pag-alpas ng Pilipinas bilang bansa sa kinasasadlakan nito. Ipinapalagay ko noong maaaring kaibigan ko si Wanda na isa lamang sa mga tauhang binuo para ipakilala ang mukha ng lipunan. Maaaring ako mismo ang mga karakter sa kwento nito dahil inilalahad nito ang posibilidad ng mga pangyayaring naganap na sa akin o maaari pang maganap sa akin o sa lipunang ito mismo."

Congratulations to Jude Diaz, our first winner for and . We will send Jude a copy of Andrea Tubig's 'Tonight We Slurp in Color' and A.A. Mendoza III's 'Aklat ng mga Naiwan' between March and April.

Read Jude's thoughts as a Balangiga Press reader on Rogelio Braga's coming-of-age story 'Kabanalan sa Panahon ng Digma' from the 2017 book of stories 'May Rush Hour Ba sa Third World Country'.

We still have four slots available keep your reviews coming!

Read Balangiga Press and we'll send you more books!

We want to read your thoughts and experience reading our books. Share your capsule review of your Balangiga book on Facebook and Twitter and make it public between the 4th of March and the 5th of April. Use this hashtag so we can see your post and read your reviews or tag us directly.

If we share your post in our social media accounts, five Balangiga Press readers get these two popular titles from us between March and April!

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*Open only to readers within the Philippines and Bangsamoro territories.

Maupay nga aga ha iyo Ngatan .

Duro an amon kalipay
Han iyo pag tangkilik ha Balangiga Press

Damo nga Salamat ha iyo.

We are ready to release print copies of these books this March:

"Colon" By Rogelio Braga
"Tonight We slurp in Colors " By Andrea Tubig

Feel free to message us about the information.

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