Revolutionary Papers

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

Noor Nieftagodien

Noor Nieftagodien is the South African Research Chair in Local Histories & Present Realities and Head of the History Workshop at Wits University. He is a member of the Editorial Collective of Amandla!, an activist magazine published since 2006, and serves on the boards of the South African History Archives, the Alternative Information and Development Centre and the Socio-Economic Rights Institute. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of Congress Militant.

Journals presented by Noor Nieftagodien

Inqaba ya basebenzi was the journal of the Marxist Workers’ Tendency of the African National Congress, a Marxist group which operated within the larger body of the ANC. The publication Inqaba ya basebenzi was launched in 1981, with the Tendency’s accompanying paper, Congress Militant, launching towards the end of the same decade. The two periodicals […]

Congress Militant: The paper as a revolutionary organiser Congress Militant, paper of the Marxist Workers’ Tendency (MWT) of the ANC, was published between the late 1980s and 1996 (when it was replaced by Socialist Alternative). As the more propagandistic accompaniment to the theoretic journal, Inqaba ya Basebenzi (published in exile from 1981) the paper played a crucial […]

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