Revolutionary Papers

Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Leftanti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production. Read More

Katharina Föger

Katharina Foeger is a graduate student and has studied history in Lodz, Prague, and Innsbruck. She has published articles on Comintern anticolonialism and Soviet posters on African decolonisation in the 1960s. She currently works on transnational networks of Austrian trade unions after 1945 and project collaborator in a research project at the University of Innsbruck on “Hubs of Decolonization”.

Journals presented by Katharina Föger

Spearhead. The Pan-African Review was established by the South African lawyer and journalist Frene Ginwala in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika (later Tanzania), just one month ahead of the country’s full independence in December of 1961. The newspaper was published monthly until May 1963, when Ginwala was expelled to Great Britain, likely due […]