Fighting talk: Ruth First's early journalism 1947-1950

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Title:	Fighting talk: Ruth First's early journalism 1947-1950
Author:	Webb, Christopher
Year:	2015
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:	42
Issue:	143
Pages:	7-21
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	journalists anti-apartheid resistance
About person:	Ruth First (1925-1982)
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.988697
Abstract:	While celebrated for her anti-apartheid activism, Ruth First's early journalism has received limited attention by scholars. The result has been an incomplete understanding of her political and intellectual development. Drawing from First's scrapbooks, this article examines some of the themes that preoccupied her from 1947-1950 while situating her work within the broader political context. Her journalism played a crucial role in chronicling resistance to segregationist policies in the pre-apartheid period and the role of cheap labour in capitalist development. Many of the themes that dominated her work on labour and development in Mozambique can be glimpsed in these scrapbooks. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]