Selected Writings

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).

Product details

• Authors: Ruth First
• Publisher: Leftword Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2023
• EAN: 9789392018312
• ISBN: 978-93-92018-31-2
• No. of pages: 76
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 109 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education