Includes bibliographical references and index. Weekley, K. (2001). The communist party of the Philippines 1968-1993: a story of its theory and practice. Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines: University of the Philippines Press.

Introduction -- Part 1: The revolution in created -- Chapter 1: From the Katipunan to Mao: claiming the past for the future -- Chapter 2: Philippine society and revolution: making the theory fit the struggle -- Part 2: Revolution on the rise -- Chapter 3: The people's army 1:army-building under martial law -- Chapter 4: Politics in the city 1: united front-building under martial law -- Part 3: Revolution in decline -- Chapter 5: The people's army 2: battling for survival and legitimacy -- Chapter 6: Politics in the city 2: united front under civilian rule -- Part 4: The party in crisis -- Chapter 7: From vanguard to rearguard: the "rectification" campaign

This is a story about the Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP) from its founding in 1968 to its devastating splits in the early 1990s. Weekley asks why the CPP was not able to adjust to the changed political condition of Edsa, when it was necessary to do so. Her answer refer to the role of theory in the fortunes and misfortunes of the party. The relationship between theory and practice in the CPP has often been uneasy, because in no more than 20 years, the party officially reviewed and altered its original strategy only once in 1974. Even leading intellectuals did not address the full implications of the "adjustments" they had been making to CPP theory along the way, until it was too late. Weekley shows how this severely hindered efforts to redefine the CPP's place in post-dictatorship politics. Using official and unofficial CPP documents, and information from her in-depth interviews with ranking party cadres (former and present), Weekley tells a story that is critical of and yet sympathetic to the dilemmas of the CPP. - From the Book