
Ruth First - Selected Writings (Edition1)
Ruth First(Author)
Unknown (Publisher)
Published on 28. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
76 pages
978-93-92018-31-2 (ISBN)
Description
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).
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Language
English
Place of publication
India
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
109 gr
ISBN-13
978-93-92018-31-2 (9789392018312)
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