<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear everyone, </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We are pleased to inform you of the online release of Volume
1 of the Marx 200 Lecture Series Monograph of the UP CIDS Program on
Alternative Development (AltDev). </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Published in commemoration of the 200^th Birth
Anniversary of Karl Marx, the Monograph is the latest contribution of Filipino
scholars who are “thinking with and beyond Marx” on some of the most important and urgent
questions in politics, history, and art. If there is any revolutionary thinker
who can shed light on recent world historical developments, it is Karl Marx. </span></p>

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UP CIDS Public Policy Monograph</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCf4__tJ2iLWHoKHW0asacaP1YkD-tQA/view" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Thinking With and Beyond Marx Critical Essays on Politics, History, and
Art (Volume 1)</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Edited by Eduardo C. Tadem and Honey B. Tabiola</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Short link: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/marx200vol1" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">bit.ly/marx200vol1</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Download link: </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCf4__tJ2iLWHoKHW0asacaP1YkD-tQA/view" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCf4__tJ2iLWHoKHW0asacaP1YkD-tQA/view</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For more information about
AltDev, please visit the UP CIDS website: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://bit.ly/37MVcqb" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://bit.ly/37MVcqb</span></a>.
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thank
you very much and stay safe! </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"></span></p>

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Hans Tabiola</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Junior Research Analyst </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p></div>