Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production. Read More
Founders of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) were alive to the significance of writing, composing freedom songs and reading-in short of disseminating ideas. This view is affirmed by amongst others the South African writer and scholar Njabulo Ndebele who wrote in the 1980s that, ‘no people that has not set in motion its […]
Toward the end of 2015, the South African student and worker movements became both increasingly fragmented by internal political differences, and demobilised by the repressive apparatuses of the state and capital. As a result, a lot of spaces for debating and strategising around free education on campuses disappeared. Additionally, a lot of energy got diverted […]
CheChe, the English-language magazine of the University Students’ African Revolutionary Front (USARF) at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). Published between 1969 and 1970 in the aftermath of the Arusha Declaration, CheChe functioned as the intellectual organ of a radical student movement committed to socialist transformation and Pan-African liberation. Produced by volunteer students and […]
Lower caste assertion in Modern India has been a topic of critical interest for several researchers in the recent past. The Satyashodhak movement spearheaded by Jotirao Phule in 1873 is one such important movement. However, the movement has largely been studied in a teleological manner, from its birth as a social movement to its culmination […]
AWA (La revue de la femme noire) short lived 20th Century Senegalese journal magazine founded by Annette Mbaye d’Erneville. A pioneer in promoting Afro-feminism in midcentury West Africa, its first issue published in 1964 and its final issue published in May 1973. It was published monthly and with a voluntary production, printed at Abdoulaye Diop’s […]
My paper seeks to draw out how writers in the journal positioned literary writing within their anti-colonial anti-fascist commitments. Description of periodical Mensagem. Printed 1948–1964 in Lisbon (and circulated across Portugal and in Angola and Mozambique). Published in Portuguese and appeared intermittently. Produced by students at the Casa Dos Estudantes do Império – literally, the […]
The Young Democrat was a small magazine produced in Johannesburg around 1956 by “a group of girls and boys, ages ranging from 10-14 years” who “disagree with the Government and believe that Peace, Freedom and Equality should reign”. This homespun and informal little political magazine was ‘roneoed’ (stencil duplicated), part typewritten, part handwritten, and hand-illustrated. […]
A Tale of Two Journals: The Poetics and Politics of Community in Mid-Century North India. Urdu literary culture underwent successive aesthetic and political revolutions in the brief period from 1935 to 1970. These revolutions, for social realism and modernism respectively, were ushered in by the journals Shāhrāh (1949-1960) and Shabkhūn (1966-2005). Entirely opposed in their […]
‘Overthrow the capitalist system of Government and usher in a co-operative Commonwealth one’: the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa (ICU), the Workers’ Herald, and dreams of revolution, 1923-1929. Abstract: The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa (ICU) and its charismatic leader Clements Kadalie dominated the Southern African political landscape of the 1920s. […]
In 2024, rebellions emerged across Kenya, uniting generations and tribes against the latest neocolonial violence leveraged against the people of Kenya through the state apparatus. More specifically, newly elected President Ruto proposed a finance bill that would impose astronomical taxes on goods, such as a 16% sales tax on bread, and higher import taxes. Ultimately, […]
The Blufo newspaper was printed by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, and played an important role in the struggle for decolonisation and political re-africanisation. Its production was overseen by Luís Cabral, from the Cassacá Congress onwards. The Blufo archive contains all 22 editions produced by the Escola-Piloto in Guinéa […]
Issued in a total of six numbers, the bulletin of the CEA – Centro de Estudos Angolanos [Center for Angolan Studies], Angola. Cultura & Revolução [Angola: Culture & Revolution], was published in Algiers between 1964 and 1966. The choice of location is significant as the city – which Amílcar Cabral had renamed the Mecca of […]
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