Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production. Read More
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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A series of digital teaching tools designed with scholars, educators and organizers for the Radical History Review special issue: Revolutionary Papers: Anticolonial Periodicals from the Global South. The tools focus on a range of revolutionary periodicals and related ephemera, from the Cairo-based Afro-Asian literary magazine Lotus, the Palestinian Bayanat of the first Intifada, to the underground pamphlets from the Mau Mau movement in Kenya. They are designed to help students from all walks of life discover the grassroots, dynamic and anti-colonial histories of periodicals, revealing the buried hearts of many cultural and political movements. The tools are made to be accessible, interactive resources that provide archival, literary, and historical insights on magazines and associated print cultures and are conceived as pedagogical aids for the classroom and for political education across a range of community settings.
The Namibian Review: Origins The Namibian Review: A Journal of Contemporary South West African Affairs was published between 1976-1987. Initially it was produced by the Namibian Review Group (later known as the Swedish Namibian Association) and 14 editions were printed by Namibian political exiles in Sweden between 1976-1978. In 1979 the journal was translocated from […]
Sawt al-Thawra (Voice of the Revolution) was a weekly bulletin published by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf (PFLOAG), or Jabha al-Shaʻbīya li-Taḥrīr ʻUmān wa-al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī in Arabic, from 1972. The PFLOAG was a Marxist-Leninist organisation engaged in armed revolutionary struggle in Dhufar, Oman, against a counterinsurgency commanded by […]
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 […]
The document below is a scanned image of a Palestinian bayan (sing.), a communique or leaflet, from the first Intifada. It was distributed on 8 January 1988, in the first days of the popular and mass uprising throughout Palestine. To understand the context that this document emerged from, we encourage you to explore the history […]
This teaching tool discusses the relevance of the journal Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings, a trilingual (Arabic, English, French) quarterly published by the Afro-Asian Writers Association from 1968 to 1991, for the development of critical and anticolonial pedagogies. Lotus embodied a project of intellectual, political, and aesthetic internationalism, which promoted solidarity as an editorial praxis, debated it theoretically, and textualized it as genre and form. Therefore, Lotus offers students and educators a vast archive to analyse the relationship between anticolonial scholarship, anticolonial creativity, and anticolonial militancy in the Global South.
APSI, or Agencia Publicitaria de Servicios Informativos, was an overground magazine that circulated subversive critiques of the Pinochet regime. In this teaching tool, we show how APSI used this ‘permission to circulate’ to unmask Chilean military authoritarianism in broad daylight. Through coverage of internationalist issues, including Third Worldist movements and authoritarianism elsewhere, APSI cultivated an anti-dictatorial narrative […]
“Radical changes are taking place in Indian society…We believe that the new literature of India must deal with the basic problems of our existence to-day– the problems of hunger and poverty, social backwardness, and political subjection. All that drags us down to passivity, inaction and un-reason we reject as reactionary. All that arouses in us […]