Watch lecture video “Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines”—another devastating exposure of Stalinism Full video of the lecture Scalice is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and author of The Drama of Dictatorship: Martial Law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines, to be published next year. The ground-breaking lecture reviewed the circumstances and political consequences of the August 1971 grenade bombing of an election rally by the then opposition Liberal Party in Plaza Miranda in central Manila. Scalice cited strong evidence that the Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) carried out for the attack, which killed nine people and injured 100 others.