It claims to be the leading anti-imperialist organization of the Filipino youth, under the ideological line of national democracy.
The League of Filipino Students started on September 11, 1977, as an alliance against tuition fee increases and school repression during the Martial law era.
[3] 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.
The League synthesizes that the roots of poverty in the Philippines at the present are caused by the continuous presence of American power in the country.