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Sawt al-Marʾa was the magazine of the Sudanese Women’s Union, launched in July 1955 under the editorship of Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim. More than a magazine, it functioned as a feminist political classroom: a space through which women could appear not as objects of reform, but as subjects of analysis, organisation, and political change. Its pages […]
This contribution draws on an ongoing research & archival project on radical publishing in Morocco, during which we came across an ad in Souffles (1969) that read “PHALASTINE: a Moroccan weekly entirely dedicated to the Palestinian struggle published every Friday: news, accounts, analysis and documents on the struggle”. No one we knew had ever seen […]
The proposed contribution aims to examine Souffles/Anfas, a French- and Arabic-language quarterly literary and political magazine published in Rabat between 1966 and 1971, as a key site of radical cultural and political production in post-independence Morocco. Founded in the aftermath of Moroccan independence by writer Abdellatif Laâbi—a prominent figure in Morocco’s post-independence revolutionary left—Souffles first […]
In 2012/2023, eight print issues of KATAMAT were produced by Girifna activists, amounting to approximately 80,000 copies distributed in different cities across Sudan. KATAMAT (which comes from the word mute is also a youth slang for a protest or an arrest campaign) was between 2-4 A4 pages and it was born following the 2012/2013 protest […]
The Negro World was a newspaper published in Harlem, New York between 1918 and 1933. It was the paper of UNIA, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914.
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.
Savera, a left-wing literary magazine published quarterly in Lahore, Pakistan from 1946 … read more
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 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 […]
Pambana and Cheche were pamphlets and newspapers of the party organ of the December Twelve Movement (DTM) launched in May 1982. DTM emerged from an underground Marxist-Leninist worker’s political party established after the first conference of the Kenyan Marxists-Leninists in Nairobi on December 22-23 in 1974. Later in May 1982 the DTM launched the Pambana […]
