LA

SOLIDARIDAD
MARCELO G. CABACUNGAN
La Solidaridad (The Solidarity) was an
organization created in Spain on
December 13, 1888. Composed of
Filipino liberals exiled in 1872 and
students attending Europe's universities.
The organization aimed to increase
Spanish awareness of the needs of its
colony, the Philippines, and to
propagate a closer relationship between
the Philippines and Spain.
La solidaridad
Type Bi-weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Editor Graciano López Jaena
Marcelo H. del Pilar
Jose Rizal
Founded 1889
Political alignment Independent
Language Spanish
Ceased publication 1895
The social, cultural, and economic
conditions of the colonial Philippines was
published in La Solidaridad. Speeches of
the Spanish liberals about the Philippines
was also featured in the newspaper.
 Members
Dr. José Rizal (Laong Laan and
Dimasalang)
Marcelo H. del Pilar
(Plaridel)(Totoong
utak ng Katipunan)
Graciano Lopez Jaena (Diego
Laura)
Antonio Luna (Taga-Ilog)
Mariano Ponce (Tignalang,
Kalipulako,
Naning)
Jose Maria Panganiban (Jomapa)
Dominador Gomez (Ramiro Franco)
Asuncion Trinidad (Kilabot 69)
Gabriela Maclang (Malaya)
Staff of La Solidaridad
Other members

Pedro Paterno
Antonio Maria Repidor
Isabelo de los Reyes
Eduardo de Lete
José Alejandrino
 Miguel Moran
Felix Hidalgo
Pedro Serrano
Tina Moran
International members

• Professor Ferdinand Blumentritt

(Austrian ethnologist)
• Dr. Miguel Morayta Sagrario (Spanish
historian, university professor and
statesman)

Note: Some friends of the Propaganda

Movement also contributed
History

• La Solidaridad was established to express the goal of the Propaganda

Movement towards achieving assimilation with Spain.
• The first issue of La Solidaridad came out on February 15, 1889.
• Solidaridad serves as the principal organ of the Reform Movement in
Spain.
• Comite de Propaganda in the Philippines funded the publication of the
La Solidaridad.
• The editorship for the newspaper was first offered to Rizal. However,
he refused because during that time he was annotating Antonio de
Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas in London. After Rizal, Graciano
López Jaena was offered for the editorship of La Solidaridad and he
accepted.
• On April 25, 1889, La Solidaridad published the letter
entitled "The aspirations of the Filipinos" which was written
by the Asociación Hispano-Filipina de Madrid (English:
Hispanic Filipino Association of Madrid). It pursued desires
for:

Representation in the Cortes

Abolition of censure
An expressed and definite prohibition of the existing practices of exiling
residents by purely administrative order, and without a writ of execution from the
courts of justice.
• On December 15, 1889, Marcelo H. del Pilar replaced
Graciano López Jaena as the editor of La Solidaridad.
Under his editorship, the aims of the newspaper
expanded. His articles caught the attention of Spanish
leaders and ministers. Using propaganda, it pursued
desires for:

That the Philippines be a province of Spain

Representation Filipino priests instead of Spanish friars
— Augustinians, Dominicans, and Franciscans — in
parishes and remote sitios
Freedom of assembly and speech Equal rights before
the law (for both Filipino and Spanish plaintiffs)
After years of publication from 1889 to 1895, funding of
the La Solidaridad became scarce. Comite de
Propaganda's contribution to the newspaper stopped
and del Pilar funded the newspaper almost on his own.
Penniless in Spain, del Pilar stopped the publication of
La Solidaridad on November 15, 1895, with 7 volumes
and 160 issues. In del Pilar's farewell editorial, he said :

“ We are persuaded that no sacrifices are too little

to win the rights and the liberty of a nation that is
oppressed by slavery. ”
Notable contributors

Several writers contributed to La Solidaridad over its six

years of existence, like Antonio Luna, Anastacio Carpio,
Mariano Ponce, Antonio María Regidor, José María
Panganiban, Isabelo de los Reyes, Eduardo de Lete, José
Alejandrino, and Pedro Paterno. One of the most prolific
contributors though was Rizal's confidant Ferdinand
Blumentritt, whose impassioned defense of the Filipino
interests was said to have been inspirational to the other
writers and the readers of the newspaper alike.
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