Selected Writings

Selected Writings - Paperback

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Selected Writings

Selected Writings - Paperback

$15.82
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by Ruth First (Author)

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).

Number of Pages: 76
Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: May 24, 2023
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