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This book (220pg) by amerikan communist William Pomeroy is about the post-WWII armed struggle of the Filipino resistance group Hukbalahap (aka Huk) against the puppet Filipino governments that were simply the local running dogs of amerikkkan imperialism, and many of who were actually colonial officials during the period of amerikkkan colonial occupation and also during the fascist japanese occupation. The Hukbalahap was originally created on 29 March 1942, shortly after the japanese occupation of the phillipines and the start of mass repression that the japanese carried out routinely in it's occupied territories. It was created as an armed resistance organization to the japanese fascists, and was composed of communists, socialists, and trade unionists, and occupation wise made up mainly of peasants, with a smaller percentage of workers.

The author, a communist before WWII, was a soldier in the amerikkkan army which ended the japanese occupation and started it's own military occupation of the Phillipines. Throughout the war, even before the landing of the amerikkkans, the Huks were attacked by small "guerilla" groups working under the authority of the amerikkkans, and after the amerikkkan invasion, the amerikkkan repression against the Huks was just intensified. Pomeroy saw this colonial repression of a group which was fighting a common enemy and was disgusted with it, and after the war when he was given leave, he decided to stay in the Phillipines, and he taught for several years there while simultaneously participating in underground work for the Hukbalahap with his Filipina wife Celia Mariano (who herself had faught as a guerilla with the Huks against the japanese). This time the Huks were fighting against the puppet regimes propped up by the amerikkkans after the fake independence granted to the Phillipines in 1946 (which was "given" to the regime of Manuel Roxas, a notorious collaborator under the japanese who was rehabilitated by the amerikkkans to carry out their orders).

Under the american occupation and the regime of Roxas, former Huks (who had stopped armed struggle for a time after the war hoping to be able to restart their pre-war legal political organizations) were murdered outright by the amerikkkans and the Filipino constablary, police, and military. Often when former Huks accepted giving up their arms and registering with the authorities they would be imprisoned or killed outright, several leading figures were even assassinated. Thus the Huks decided to restart their armed struggle, this time against the puppet Filipino government.

Pomeroy worked for several years in the Huk underground in Manila while teaching at a university, and moved into the forest in 1950 to take an active part in the Huk struggle. This book is concerned with Pomeroy and his wife's work with the Huk in the forests of Luzon, and ends with their capture and imprisonment by the Filipino government in 1952 towards the very end of the unfortunately unsuccessful Huk uprising. Pomeroy and Celia was later imprisoned for 10 years as political prisoners before he and his wife were released. Enjoy this book of struggle, and remember our sisters and brothers in the Phillipines who are still living under a puppet, neo-colonial government. Enjoy comrades:

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The Forest - William J Pomeroy.pdf