Politisk Revy

Politisk Revy
Categories Political magazine
Frequency Bi-weekly
Publisher København
Year founded 1963
Final issue March 1987
Country Denmark
Based in Copenhagen
Language Danish
ISSN 0551-3464
OCLC number 465836373

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]

History

Politisk Revy, a bi-weekly magazine, was founded in 1963 by Andreas Jorgensen, a left-wing politician.[3][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.[4] 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, new left in the country was organized around the magazine.[6] From 1966 the magazine began to publish articles about the role of Cuba as a driving force in Third World revolutionary activities.[12]

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.[13] The magazine published an editorial in Autumn 1970, arguing that Greenland should have a socialist government.[14]

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. Rebellion and resistance (PDF). Pisa: Plus-Pisa university press. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Politisk Revy". Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Jorgensen, Andreas (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)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Niels Thomsen. "Mass Media". Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Politisk revy". OCLC World Cat. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Anna Stadager (2009). "The Spiritual ‘1968’". In Henrik Jensen. 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 (subscription required)
  12. ↑ Karen Steller Bjerregaard (2011). "Guerrillas and Grassroots: Danish Solidarity with the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s". In Martin Klimke et. al. Between Prague Spring and French May (PDF). New York and Oxford: Berghahn. ISBN 978-0-85745-106-4. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  13. ↑ Collison, Robert (July 1970). "Trends abroad: Western Europe" (PDF). Library Trends. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  14. ↑ 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.