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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Radical History Review

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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.

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Sawt al-Thawra: A Counterarchive of the Dhufar Revolution

Presented by

Marral Shamshiri
21 April 2022

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 […]

Series: Radical History Review Series: Revolutionary Papers Teaching Tools