Lotus was the trilingual (Arabic, English, and French) journal published by the Afro-Asian Writers Association from 1968 to 1991. Initially headquartered in Cairo, but with the French and English editions printed out of East Germany, the journal relocated to Beirut in 1973 following Anwar Sadat’s peace treaty with Israel and the consequent Arab boycott of […]
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A Children’s Movement for Change: Izwi Labantwana/Die Kinderstem/ Voice of the Children Izwi Labantwana, Die Kinderstem, Voice of the Children is the official newsletter of the national organisation the Children’s Movement, which had been produced between 1986 and 2017. The newsletter released issues annually in the early 90s, increasing up to five issues per annum […]
1986
Free Palestine was a monthly magazine published in Britain from 1968 until 1984, after which it moved to Australia from where it continued publication until 1992. The first issue of the paper in June, 1968, featured an editorial outlining its aims and positions: “As a group of Palestinian Arabs residing in the UK, we hope […]
Born two years after the landmark Culture and Resistance Conference, held in Gabarone, in 1982, Vakalisa Art Associates, a flexible group of about twenty artists, formed to reject the idea of the romantic artist and individual genius, opting to produce work with a purpose— art, in its broadest acceptation, that would develop society and contribute […]
Translating the Revolution, Imagining Independence in Tunisia: Perspectives Tunisiennes and al-‘āmil al-tūnsī (1963-1974) Tunisia’s post-French colonial era was dominated by the political and social imagination of the one, President Habib Bourguiba, and his vision for a bourgeois colonial modernity. The most resilient voice of opposition (political and cultural) came from university campuses, and a nebulous […]
1968
The journal Al-Fatah (“The Victory” in Arabic) published in Karachi, Pakistan from May 1970 till approximately July 1990. The periodical was produced in Urdu in the two decades it was distributed and became a major supporter of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). The journal Al-fatah was largely socialist in terms of political inclination and critical of […]
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an armed Marxist-Leninist Palestinian national movement, used its weekly Arabic-language organ, al-Hadaf (The Target), to demonstrate its revolutionary analytical acumen on a variety of topics, including contemporary international affairs, political theory, Zionism, and women’s liberation. However, in addition to this rich spectrum of subjects, al-Hadaf always […]
1970
1. Souffles-Anfas 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, […]
1930
La Ruche, Surrealist Antifascism and the 1946 Haitian Revolution La Ruche, ‘Organe de la jeune génération,’ Journal Hebdomadaire Littéraire et Social, began in late 1945 as a cultural, literary and political revue produced by left-militant youth would go on to become some of Haiti’s most important intellectual and political actors. Members of La Ruche, such […]
1945
Lail-o-Nihar | لیل و نہار, started in 1957 as a newspaper distributed weekly in Pakistan by Progressive Papers Limited publishing house … read more
The Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA) or Mau Mau as it is more widely known as across the world was the cornerstone of the anti-colonial movement in Kenya and presented perhaps the most revolutionary fight against imperialism in the country. After Kenya’s independence from the British in 1963, there were hardly any substantial changes […]
From 1971 to 1973, the nascent grassroots political organization known as Kokua Hawaii independently published and distributed Huli, a semiregular newspaper featuring radical economic analysis, community news, organizing strategies, political education, social documentary photography, and illustrated agitprop graphics. Kokua Hawaii, based on Oʻahu and active across the Hawaiian islands, was influenced by legacies of militant […]
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