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"Free Palestine" Magazine: A Revolutionary Papers Launch

We are delighted to be hosting the launch of Revolutionary Papers' new teaching tool - Free Palestine: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution - alongside a discussion on the power of print in global solidarity with Palestine.

Free Palestine was a monthly magazine published in Britain from 1968 until 1984 (after which it moved to Australia from where it continued publication until 1992). The magazine, little known by activists or scholars today, is effectively an archive of the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain during the years of its publication, and contains a treasure trove of information, experiences, tactics and strategies used by British-based activists in building solidarity with Palestine. The new teaching tool, available on the Revolutionary Papers' website (here), has been developed by Sorcha Thomson, Rami Rmeileh and Akram Salhab in collaboration with Revolutionary Papers.

Revolutionary Papers is an international, transdisciplinary research and teaching initiative on anticolonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South. It traces the ways that periodicals supported social, political and cultural reconstruction amidst colonial destruction, building alternative networks that circulated new political ideas and dared to imagine worlds after empire. This “from below” approach to history allows us to engage with intra-movement discourses and relocate the power of anti-colonial movements away from charismatic leaders to the organising bases that made their rise possible.

For over two decades, Free Palestine used print as a weapon of solidarity organising, circulating frontline analysis, internationalist debates, and reflections on the lived experience of cross-border solidarity. Come learn about our radical histories with urgent lessons for organising today!

Join us for:

•  A deep dive into historic and contemporary Palestine solidarity movement ephemera

• A discussion on the role of radical print in the global solidarity movement past and present

• A display of archives of solidarity, highlighting the materials of the Gaza solidarity encampments

• A conversation with movement elders

...and, of course, cheap drinks and good conversation after!

Confirmed speakers include Akram Salhab, Sorcha Thomson, Hana Morgenstern (Revolutionary Papers) and Tessnim Tolba.

☀️ Arrive from 6pm

📚 Talk begins 6:30pm

💬 Social from 8:30pm