Politisk Revy

Politisk Revy (meaning Political Review in English) was a Danish bi-weekly political magazine with new left tendency.[1] The magazine was named after the 1920s critical magazine, Critical Revue.[2] Politisk Revy existed between 1963 and 1987.[3]

Politisk Revy
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyBi-weekly
PublisherKøbenhavn
Year founded1963
Final issueMarch 1987
CountryDenmark
Based inCopenhagen
LanguageDanish
ISSN0551-3464
OCLC465836373

History

Politisk Revy, a bi-weekly magazine, was founded in 1963 by Andreas Jorgensen, a left-wing politician.[4] The other cofounders of the magazine were Socialist People's Party members and journalists who had worked for defunct Dialogue magazine.[2]

Politisk Revy was based in Copenhagen and was published by København.[5] The early the editors of the magazine included Andreas Jorgensen, Johan Fjord Jensen, Ulf Christiansen and Sven Skovmand who left the magazine after 1966.[2] Ebbe Kløvedal Reich and Ole Grünbaum were two of its columnists following this period.[6] The former also served as editor of the bi-weekly for one year at the end of the 1960s.[6]

Karen Jespersen, former interior minister of Denmark, served as the editor of Politisk Revy from 1974 to 1977.[7][8] Bente Hansen is also among the former editors-in-chief of the magazine.[9]

Politisk Revy reached its peak circulation in the 1970s with 5,000 copies.[2] During this period the magazine was one of the alternative media together with Information, a newspaper, in Denmark.[10]

The magazine was closed in March 1987 due to low levels of circulation and shaky finances. In 1969 the magazine also began to publish books of which number was 507 until its disestablishment.[2]

Political leaning and censorship

Politisk Ravy was not affiliated to any political party or organization.[2] However, in the late 1960s the magazine functioned as a forum for the new left in Denmark.[11] In addition, people adopted the views of the new left in the country were organized around the magazine.[6] The magazine provided a very theoretical approach towards the leftist ideas.[12] From 1966 the magazine began to publish articles about the role of Cuba as a driving force in Third World revolutionary activities.[13]

Ebbe Kløvedal Reich's editorials in the magazine were mostly about the criticism of the Vietnam war.[6] In 1969, the Danish police seized the magazine's forthcoming issue for allegedly containing secret military information.[14] The magazine published an editorial in Autumn 1970, arguing that Greenland should have a socialist government.[15]

gollark: Being wildly unsafe all the time is probably of some value in, say, embedded systems, but mostly it is better to have safe code which is not going to do memory-unsafe things.
gollark: I'm not saying "change it", just that it is not perfect.
gollark: At least for high-level/application programming use.
gollark: As I have said, a language *should* make it hard to do unsafe/bad/insecure things.
gollark: No, the cons just make it bad for many uses.

See also

List of magazines in Denmark

References
  1. Karen S. Bjerregaard (2009). "The Meaning of Armed Struggle. Solidarity with the Third World in Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s". In Henrik Jensen (ed.). Rebellion and resistance (PDF). Pisa: Plus-Pisa university press. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  2. "Politisk Revy". Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  3. Marianne Ping Huang. "Cultural Journals and Cultural Debate: Focusing Cultural Diffusion?" (PDF). Aarhus Universitet. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  4. Andreas Jorgensen (February 1997). "Efficiency and Welfare under Capitalism: Denmark vs. the United States; a Short Comparison". Monthly Review. 48 (9). Retrieved 1 October 2013. – via Questia (subscription required)
  5. "Politisk revy". OCLC World Cat. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  6. Anna Stadager (2009). "The Spiritual '1968'". In Henrik Jensen (ed.). Rebellion and resistance (PDF). Pisa: Plus-Pisa university press. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  7. "Participants". Minority Report. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  8. "Governments - Denmark". VIPS. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  9. "Four People". The Danish Council of Ethics. 1997. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  10. Andrew Jamison (June 2004). "Learning from Lomborg" (PDF). Science as Culture. 13 (2). Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  11. Christopher Munthe Morgenstierne (2003). Denmark and National Liberation in Southern Africa: A Flexible Response. Uppsala: Nordic African Institute. p. 56. Retrieved 1 October 2013 – via Questia.
  12. Thomas Ekman Jorgensen (15 October 2008). Transformations and Crises: The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980. Berghahn Books. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-84545-861-4. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  13. Karen Steller Bjerregaard (2011). "Guerrillas and Grassroots: Danish Solidarity with the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s". In Martin Klimke; et al. (eds.). Between Prague Spring and French May (PDF). New York and Oxford: Berghahn. ISBN 978-0-85745-106-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  14. Robert Collison (July 1970). "Trends abroad: Western Europe" (PDF). Library Trends. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  15. Axel Kjær Sørensen (1 July 2009). Denmark-Greenland in the Twentieth Century. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-87-635-1276-3. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
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