ABSTRACT

The nationalist struggle of our time, like any other historical movement, has had its peaks of activity and its plateaus of inaction, its advances and its setbacks, its different stages of development. From the slow crystalliza­ tion of its major objectives, it went on to a period of propagandizing for these goals, of actively presenting them to a wider mass of the population by means of articles, speeches, and public forums. Nationalism then moved on to try to redirect the course of recent Philippine history by its advocacy of certain policies or dissent on specific issues. It has used for this purpose, besides the old avenues of reaching people, such new forms of mass action as teach-ins and demonstrations.