Revolutionary Papers

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

Teaching Tools

The Revolutionary Papers Teaching Tools highlight methods of research to bring out relevant insights about periodicals and the politics and pedagogies they were steeped in at the time and since then. They are designed for both educational and organising settings and can be used to focus on certain features of research into the periodical. Learn more.

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Pathways to Free Education

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Pathways to Free Education
16 June 2026

Within the throes of the movement for free education at South African universities in 2015–2016, Pathways converged as a group of people who wanted to continue discussing and planning the non-partisan movement and struggles for free education. The Pathways collective wanted to create space to learn about, participate in, and contribute to the debates around […]

Series: Revolutionary Papers Teaching Tools
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Regimes and Resistance: Kenyan Resistance History Through Underground and Alternative Publications

Presented by

Njoki Wamai Wairimu Gathimba Kimani Waweru
15 November 2025

PALIAct Ukombozi, a Library of Revolutionary Histories. When Kenya attained its independence in 1963 from the British occupation, parliament passed an act to enable the creation of the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS). KNLS was established and mandated, among other functions, to provide library service to the public. However, the attainment of self-rule did not […]

Series: Radical History Review