The organization derived from La Solidaridad and the Propaganda movement.

[3] The purpose of La Liga

Filipina was to build a new group that sought to involve the people directly in the reform movement.[4]

The league was to be a sort of mutual aid and self-help society dispensing scholarship funds and legal
aid, loaning capital and setting up cooperatives, the league became a threat to Spanish authorities that
they arrested Rizal on July 6, 1892 on Dapitan.[5]

During the exile of Rizal, The organization became inactive,[6] though through the efforts of Domingo
Franco and Andres Bonifacio,[7] it was reorganized. The organization decided to declare its support for
La Solidaridad and the reforms it advocated, raise funds for the paper, and defray the expenses of
deputies advocating reforms for the country before the Spanish Cortes. Eventually after some disarray in
the leadership of the group, the Supreme Council of the League dissolved the society.[8]

The Liga membership split into two groups when it is about to be revealed: the conservatives formed
the Cuerpo de Compromisarios which pledged to continue supporting the La Solidaridad while the
radicals led by Bonifacio devoted themselves to a new and secret society, the Katipunan.