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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Revolutionary Papers Classroom is a teaching and research collaboration between Revolutionary Papers and the program in Comparative Literature and Culture Studies at LUMS University in Lahore, Pakistan.
Led by Sara Kazmi, the collaboration approached anticolonial and left periodicals as interventions into and resources for teaching and learning about revolutionary politics in the Global South. The Revolutionary Papers Classroom deepens RP’s commitment to developing pedagogy, methodology and research embedded in Global South contexts. The initiative aims to engage and train young Global South scholars in the comparative and transnational study of revolutionary print through syllabi, reading resources and new research. The Classroom convened a semester-long research seminar incorporating guest lectures from Koni Benson and Mahvish Ahmad, digital humanities training sessions, and visits to local archives at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS.
The following tools were co-authored by students who enrolled in the project’s taught course titled “Print Cultures of the Global South”. The tools showcase progressive and left-wing publications from Pakistan, including the iconic 1940s literary magazine Savera [Dawn] associated with the anticolonial Progressive Writers’ Movement, and the 1970s periodical Lail-o-Nihar [Night and Day] edited by iconic Pakistani communist and Lotus editor, Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
To bring Revolutionary Papers Classroom to your city or university, write to us at revolutionarypapers@gmail.com.
In 1957, Mian Iftikharuddin’s publishing house, Progressive Papers Limited, began to produce a weekly magazine called Lail-o-Nihar. One of the magazine’s first editors was the renowned writer Syed Sibte Hassan while author Faiz Ahmed Faiz was its Chief Editor. Both individuals and the founder belonged to the left-wing intellectual group in Pakistan, commonly known as […]
“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 […]
Tulu was a Soviet state-sponsored publication in Pakistan that was in print from 1967-1991, and stopped production after the fall of the Soviet Union. Headquartered in the Soviet Union, it had Russian and Pakistani co-editors who wrote in Urdu, and later in English as well. The magazine was a part of the cultural war between […]
Al-Fatah (“The Victory” in Arabic) was a weekly Urdu-language socialist periodical published out of Karachi, Pakistan, from May 1970 till approximately July 1990. It published a wide variety of content, although there was a distinct proclivity towards political topics. Al-Fatah‘s socialist leanings informed many stances that it took during its run. It was decidedly pro-China […]