Sakdalista

Lapiang Sakdal
Leader	Benigno Ramos Celerino Tiongco
Founded	1933; 91 years ago (1933)
Dissolved	1935; 89 years ago (1935)
Succeeded by	Ganap Party
Headquarters	Manila, Philippines
Newspaper	Sakdal
Ideology	Filipino nationalism Populism Anti-imperialism Anti-Americanism Agrarian socialism
Political position	Left-wing
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The Sakdalista movement was founded by the writer Benigno Ramos in 1930. The name of the movement is derived from the Tagalog word "Sakdal", which means "to accuse" and a nod to the J'Accuse…! editorial of the French novelist Émile Zola. The movement's platform was centered upon immediate independence, estate redistribution, taxation reductions, and greater governmental transparency. The movement lasted until 1935, when the Sakdalista leaders organized an active uprising that quickly failed, causing the party to dissolve. The movement is estimated to have had 20,000 formal members that influenced hundreds of thousands of Filipinos in the early 1930s.