Filipino social democracy, an introduction / Benjamin T. Tolosa, Jr. -- Kasapi, igniting mass-based people's organizations for liberation / Cristina Jayme Montiel -- From confronting to engaging the state, the PDSP and its youth arm / Roy P. Mendoza -- Pandayan para sa sosyalistang Pilipinas, process and paradox / Eleanor R. Dionisio with Anna Marie A. Karaos and Jennifer Santiago Oreta -- PDP-Laban, experimenting with electoral politics during democratic transition / Cristina Jayme Montiel -- Coalition building / Angelita Gregorio-Medel and Maria Josefa P. Petilla -- Filipino social democracy, origins and characteristics, lessons and challenges / Benjamin T. Tolosa, Jr