1st Edition

Writing Left The Radical Journalism of Ruth First

By Donald Pinnock Copyright 2025
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents a detailed study of the political journalism of Ruth First – an independent thinker and a headstrong journalist who stood her ground in a male-dominated liberation movement. A product of information gathering which began in South Africa in 1986 (at a time when discussing communism exposed one to the possibility of imprisonment without trial), the subject matter in this book... Read more

Credits

Series foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Growing up left

2. University, politics and the party

3. The Congress Alliance

4. A press with a mission

5. Building a campaign

6. Building an identity

7. The economy of poverty

8. A battle won

9. Towards new horizons

10. A battle lost

11. The struggle for silence

12. Postscript

13. Bibliography

14. Index

Biography

Donald Pinnock