Revolutionary Papers

Contributors to this special issue examine periodicals and other print ephemera—newspapers, literary journals, magazines, pamphlets, and handbills—as crucial sites of Left, anti-imperial, and anticolonial critical production. These publications have generated oppositional networks, critical concepts, and alternative artistic practices linking local concerns to global revolutionary praxis, the authors argue; and through this work, independent periodicals bring about other worlds by challenging imperial, colonial, and authoritarian state interests. This issue is part of a multiyear, collaborative research project, which one can explore at revolutionarypapers.org.

Contributors: Javaria Ahmad, Mahvish Ahmad, Areej Akhtar, Amsale Alemu, Pablo Álvarez, Koni Benson, Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Asher Gamedze, Thayer Hastings, Sana Farrukh Khan, Aaron Katzeman, Sara Kazmi, Promise Li, Alex Lichtenstein, Sara Marzagora, Mae A. Miller-Likhethe, Hana Morgenstern, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Noor Nieftagodien, Francisco Rodriguez, Marral Shamshiri, Njoki Wamai, Kimani Waweru, Tony Wood, Rafeef Ziadeh