A transnational research and teaching collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production.

Joined October 2021
We are proud to announce the @RevPapers Special Issue with @RadHistReview on Anticolonial Periodicals from the Global South Follow the link dropped below to check out this phenomenal issue with contributors from around the world read.dukeupress.edu/radical-…
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Don't miss the @RevPapers Masterclass at this year's Nairobi Litfest!! #NBOLitfest 9.30am Friday 27th June 2025 [scan the QR code to register]
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Revolutionary Papers x MayDay Rooms - Exhibit Launch & Discusssion this coming Wed 9 Apr 2025 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM @ Pelican House, E1 5QJ, London Register here: tickettailor.com/events/peli… @RevPapers @maydayrooms @PelicanHouse
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check out a chapter from the @RevPapers special issue of @RadHistReview on the Chilean magazine ... ... APSI: Studying the Underground Critiques of an Overground Magazine by Pablo Alvarez & Francisco Rodriguez revolutionarypapers.org/publ…
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Free reading on The Black AntiFascist Tradition!
Free PDF 📚: The Black AntiFascist Tradition 'From London to the Caribbean, Ethiopia to Harlem, Black radicals understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black ppl around the world & to everyone' Link 🔗: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yaw… Click (alt) for alt text + Summary 📖
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chapter from the special issue of @RadHistReview on @RevPapers on the Palestinian bayan by @ThayerHastings revolutionarypapers.org/publ… 'The bayanat.. of the 1st Intifada were used to organize the everyday life of what emerged as a mass popular uprising '.. follow link 2 read more
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Family history is colonial history for the colonized and the colonizer. From my new chapter “Who gave you permission?” Scholars and their Kin, U Chicago Press
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Revolutionary Papers retweeted
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization forthcoming from @ucpress
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I made this teaching tool w the great ppl @RevPapers as a way to present a history of the first Intifada through one Bayan from the early days of the uprising as a view into how social movements cohere and are sustained. Short intro of the project here: read.dukeupress.edu/radical-…
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My short piece on pamphlets from the first Intifada included in this issue alongside some fantastic work on revolutions and their documents
The #WeeklyRead is "Revolutionary Papers: The Counterinstitutions, Counterpolitics, and Countercultures of Anticolonial Periodicals," the introduction to a special issue of @RadHistReview (150). Read it for free: ow.ly/i90X50U8jsb Buy this issue: ow.ly/9rEB50U8juf
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Revolutionary Papers retweeted
The #WeeklyRead is "Revolutionary Papers: The Counterinstitutions, Counterpolitics, and Countercultures of Anticolonial Periodicals," the introduction to a special issue of @RadHistReview (150). Read it for free: ow.ly/i90X50U8jsb Buy this issue: ow.ly/9rEB50U8juf
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We want to give an extra special thanks to the brilliant Maddie and Mina in the @LSEsociology comms team who played an essential role in organising this event and making it possible. @LSEHumanRights
The revolutionary organiser and thinker Selma James addresses our launch @LSEHumanRights. Amazing!
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Attended a 🔥 panel by @RevPapers last night and learned they made a teaching tool from Hana Morgenstern's @meriponline article, "An Archive of Literary Reconstruction after the Palestinian Nakba." Check it out along with the rest of their teaching tools! revolutionarypapers.org/teac…
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The revolutionary organiser and thinker Selma James addresses our launch @LSEHumanRights. Amazing!
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"Although not without its limits, the periodical is a window into this overlooked social scale of decolonization, and a site where anticolonial thought and culture were consolidated through local and international exchange." @RevPapers 😍 revolutionarypapers.org/abou…
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Join us this evening at 5pm-7pm over at @LSEHumanRights! Comrades Selma James, @RafeefZiadah, @SaraMarzagora, Asher Gamedze will in convo w/ our founding RP collective (Mahvish, Koni, Hana) and we cannot wait! Chaired by the excellent @saramsalem! An updated poster!
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VERY excited to announce that the great revolutionary feminist, Selma James, will join our roundtable! She’ll speak on editing Correspondence, a newspaper of the The Johnson–Forest Tendency w/ CLR James, Raya Dunayevskaya & Grace Lee Boggs + founding Crossroads Books Press.
Join us this Wed @lsehumanrights, 5-7pm! We have a fantastic line-up, including our powerful comrades and collaborators, @RafeefZiadah, @SaraMarzagora, and Asher Gamedze in convo w/ our RP founding collective, Mahvish Ahmad, Koni Benson, Hana Morgenstern. Chair: @saramsalem
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