Welcome to Radical Americas

A diamond open-access academic journal that explores the historical, political and social contexts that have underpinned radicalism in the Americas.

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Radical Americas engages fully with the crosscurrents of activism which connect North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. We welcome new submissions from early career and established scholars worldwide and will consider work in a number of different formats. In addition to peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of Western Hemisphere radicalism, the journal runs a variety of regular features, including opinion pieces, photo essays, reviews, and archival notes. Learn more about our aims and scope and how to submit, and sign up to our Publishing Alerts to keep abreast of our calls for papers and new article releases.

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Subversion and self-critique in the self-managed university
Subversion and self-critique in the self-managed university
Posted by Scott Campbell on 2026-05-06

This past 14 April marked fifty years since the death of José Revueltas, a singular figure of the mid-twentieth-century Mexican left. A four-time political prisoner, a winner of the National Prize for Literature, a communist twice expelled from the Mexican Communist Party, and a self-taught university professor, Revueltas was a heterodox, flawed, contradictory but immensely committed individual [...]

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