Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production. Read More
The Journal of Black Theology in South Africa and its Contribution to the Struggle for Liberation The Journal of Black Theology in South Africa was a bi-annual academic journal which ran from May 1987 until November 1998. In a context of legislated (at least initially) anti-black racism and repression, it sought to be “a vehicle […]
The Moroccan cultural journal Souffles-Anfas [breaths] ran between 1966 and 1971, when it was banned by the Moroccan government and its founder Abdellatif Laâbi was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for sedition. The journal was published quarterly (with some double-issues) and ran 22 issues over its brief history. Modestly priced at 3 Moroccan Dirhams, distribution averaged […]
New Youth was the magazine of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, based in Johannesburg. It forms part of the broader print ecosystem of the Congress movement in the 1950s. Most of the articles in the magazine appear under pseudonyms like Spartacus, Johnny Youngman, and Leftie, though the names of TIYC members like Moosa ‘Mosie’ Moolla […]
Communiques were central to the coordination of the mass popular uprising that challenged Israeli rule over Palestinians from 1987 until the early 1990s. These short political texts were called manasheer or bayanat al-Intifada, in Arabic. The Teaching Tool, Manasheer of the First Palestinian Intifada, profiles one such bayan, the first of the serialized bayanat distributed by […]
The journal Third World Liberation Front was produced and distributed in the San Francisco Bay Area of North America. The journal itself only produced three issues in 1969 but there were numerous periodical-type documents such as pamphlets and zines created by the movement, the Third World Liberation Front, between 1968 and 1972.
Freedom, a radical Harlem-based publication founded in 1951 by Paul Robeson and Louis E. Burnham. During the height of the Cold War, the Red Scare, and McCarthyism—when Black left publications were aggressively surveilled and forcibly marginalized—Freedom emerged as a crucial political and cultural platform for thinkers, artists, and organizers committed to internationalist struggle and anti-capitalist […]
The Analyst was a magazine published in Jos, Nigeria from 1986 till the early 1990s. While a hand-full of scholarly journals attempting to understand Nigerian and African realities from a Marxist perspective sprung up mainly on university campuses through the 1970s, The Analyst distinguished itself by pursing a highly accessible mass circulation magazine format, seeking […]
Schooling the nation through words: reading and writing in the Non-European Unity Movement, 1940s-1950s The production and circulation of newspapers, periodicals and pamphlets by members of the Anti-CAD, All-African Convention and the Non-European Unity Movement (as well as the Teachers’ League of South Africa and the Cape African Teachers’ Association) during the 1940s and 1950s […]
Two men of African descent, John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Cornish were chosen to edit Freedom’s Journal in March 1827, launching the Black press in the United States, a vital institution for communication and social justice. Two hundred years later, newspapers, periodicals, zines, and digital media produced by Black Americans remain a necessary project for […]
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 […]
I have titled this set Continental staffriders, liberation bonfires and dance borrowing from South Africa’s infamous literary magazine and cultural organization, Staffriders Magazine published between 1978 – 1993. I will be sharing poems, short stories, interviews, and music that speaks to this Magazine’s epic cultural and political aesthetics. The aim is to pay homage to […]
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 […]
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