La Liga Filipina

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The La Liga Filipina was a short-lived organization of Filipino nationalists who had the goal of peacefully fighting for independence or at least for the greatest possible autonomy of the Philippines from Spain . It was organized along the lines of a Masonic lodge. The initiator of the organization was José Rizal .

José Rizal was a leading member of the propaganda movement of Filipino students in Europe and wrote political articles for their newspaper La Solidaridad. Among other things, he called for the Philippines to become a Spanish province, for Filipino seats to be created in the Spanish Parliament (Cortes), for Spanish priests in the Philippines to be replaced by locals, and for all residents of the Philippines to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and equality before the Law would be granted. In 1892 he returned to the Philippines from Europe. To achieve his goals, he founded La Liga Filipina on July 3, 1892 . The place of foundation was the house of Doroteo Ongjunco at Ilaya Street 176 in Tondo , a current district of Manila . Ambrosio Salvador was elected first president . Agustín de la Rosa was elected Finance Secretary and Bonifacio Arevalo Treasurer. Other founding members were Deodato Arellano , Andres Bonifacio , Mamerto Natividad , Domingo Franco , Jose Dizon , Apolinario Mabini , Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista , Marcelino de los Santos , Arcadio del Rosario and José Ramos .

Shortly after the founding of the Liga Filipina became known, it was banned again by the Spanish colonial authorities on July 6, 1892. José Rizal was arrested and exiled in Dapitan City . After the ban, the successor organization of the Liga Filipina was founded on July 7, 1892: the Katipunan , which, however, represented more radical views.

The events surrounding the founding and banning of the Liga Filipina had a major impact on the Philippine Revolution . However, the revolutionaries realized that Rizal's goals were illusory, as Spain showed no interest in granting the Filipinos autonomy. The basic principles of the League were incorporated into the constitutions of the Republic of Biak-na-Bato and the First Philippine Republic .

literature

  • Benedict R. Anderson: La Liga Filipina . In: Ders .: Under three flags. Anarchism and the anti-colonial imagination . Verso Press, London 2005, pp. 129-133, ISBN 1-8446-7037-6 .
  • Karl R. Jandoc: La Liga Filipina. Rizal and institutional change . In: The Philippine Review of Economics , Vol. 48 (2011), Issue 2, pp. 151-1182, ISSN  1655-1516
  • Severina Luna-Orosa: Rizal and the Filipino woman. Rizal's "Liga Filipina" . Manila 1961.

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