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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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Book category Books in German Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft Medien, Kommunikation Buchhandel, Bibliothekswesen

• Full title: Selected Writings
• Author: Ruth First
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76
• EAN: 9789392018312
• ISBN: 9392018312
• ID: 43474964
• Publisher: LeftWord Books
• Weight: 109 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. May 2023

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