League of Filipino Students (LFS) is a student movement organized during the Martial law era in the Philippines by militant leftist students on September 11, 1977, to address educational issues and school repression.^[1]

Brief History

The League of Filipino Students (LFS) started on September 11, 1977, as an alliance against tuition fee increases and school repression during the Martial law era. The organization formally declared itself in 1982 as a national democratic mass organization.^[2]

During the Marcos regime, students were principal protesters against the government.^[3] LFS directed its attack against the government with the use of student protests.^[4] The group dominated campus politics and was a powerful agent in student mobilization claiming thousands of members that could quickly mobilize for mass action.

The assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1983, the Marcos' government became vulnerable and the organization sets off a nationwide student mobilization. They have participated in protests against the government and have joined street demonstrations with workers which shifted the group into student radicalism. They became the principal actors in the removal of Ferdinand Marcos from power.^[5]

LFS remains one of the largest active student organizations in the Philippines. The group continuously takes part in the struggle of the youth and the people.^[6]