Selected Writings

Ruth First

ISBN 10: 9392018312 / ISBN 13: 9789392018312

Verlag: leftword, 2023

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26399404215

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Selected Writings
• Verlag: leftword
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9392018312
• ISBN-13: 9789392018312
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Ruth First, born in 1925, held multiple roles during the struggles of her time as a communist militant, journalist, researcher and leading intellectual in South Africa. Until her assassination in 1982, she was a committed anti-apartheid activist and was one of the many defendants of the Treason Trial and imprisoned without charge in solitary confinement for 117 days in 1963. Ruth First on a range of topics including the landmark 1956 Women's March, the workings of the apartheid state, and the history of anti-apartheid armed struggle against this state, introduced by an essay on First's life and legacy, written by Vashna Jagarnath, a labour activist who works in the office of the general secretary of the National Union of Metal workers of South Africa (NUMSA).