TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lichauco, Alejandro
AU  - Sweezy, Paul M.
TI  - The Lichauco paper: imperialism in the Philippines 
SN  - 0-85345-303-9
AV  - HC 455  .L617 1973
PY  - 1973///];copyright 1973
CY  - New York
PB  - Monthly Review Press
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - sears
KW  - Philippine
KW  - Philippines
KW  - United States
N2  -  and Marcos ordered the imprisonment of his opponents. But before this had happened, the Lichauco Paper had created a furor in the Constitutional Convention and, after publication in serial form. throughout the Philippines. Alejandro Lichauco was arrested the night of the proclamation of martial law, in September 1972. He was released but kept under house arrest. --From the book cover;  martial law was declared; This paper is one of the most important documents in the recent history of the Philippines. It is a declaration of the sovereign right of a people to resist and throw off foreign imperialist domination, and an analysis of the way imperialism works in the Philippines. Since its author represents a small left grouping among the national bourgeoisie of the Philippines, the radicalism of the document is more or less restricted to anti-imperialism, and the class and power relationships within Philippine society are left untouched. But the very fact of the origins of this paper in bourgeois nationalism indicate the depth of the crisis in the Philippines. The Lichauco Paper was written for the Constitutional Convention which opened in June 1971 to change the Constitution of 1935. Alejandro Lichauco, formerly president of the Philippine Petroleum Association and executive vice-president of the Anglo-Philippine Oil and Mining Corporation, was one of seven delegates from the 1st District, Rizal, the largest and most populous district represented in the Convention. The Committee on Declaration of Principles and Ideology, of which he was a member, voted a proposal the adoption of which would make it mandatory for the government and people of the Philippines to "resist and repel" Imperialism, and this paper was submitted to the Convention in support of that proposal. The Constitutional Convention was dissolved by President Marcos to prevent the adoption of a constitution with a number of nationalist provisions
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