Thread by @zandapheri

Thread of shoutouts to other people doing political archival/compilation work I appreciate:

@aldnmarki: Excellent source for historical+current material from Yemen in English. Unfortunately his main account was banned and a lot of precious information was lost. Also runs @HamraBooks republishing works from the PDRY, and @RadioVOFS, a Libyan Jamahiriya funk music archive

@LadyIzdihar has scanned lots of valuable books, pamphlets, periodicals, and propaganda art from the Soviet bloc and other socialist countries (including much about the role of women in socialist society), and she's also a noted communist fashion icon

@NatalieRevolts has spent years sharing and publicizing media and news from the DPRK with single-minded devotion. Mainly current rather than historical materials, but she's a must-follow and I couldn't possibly leave her out on that technicality

@NorthNKAAL has a massive and well-organized collection of material from the DPRK in basically every medium

@jeff_kaye has done years of amazing research on biological warfare in Korea, past and present CIA torture programs and psychological experiments, etc. His original analyses are supported by primary documentation which he's made available online for the first time in many cases

@TheEastArchive has a great and growing collection of original scanned books and digitized video material from communist/socialist/otherwise revolutionary states and movements, particularly photo and art books from the Soviet world and the DPRK

Only recently followed @Gredtoo and I can't perfectly describe what his account is about, but he shares a lot of interesting Palestinian historical material, including political art, pamphlets, and archival footage, in Arabic and English

Some Internet Archive accounts:

dudeman5685 (): large and eclectic collection of digitized books and documents. Not clear exactly what ideological angle he's coming from, but includes a lot of very rare materials from socialist countries, mostly in Englisharchive.org/details/@dudem…

Huŏxīng (): nice collection of books, audio, and video from various socialist countries and revolutionary movements. Over half are tagged DPRK, but other themes include China, Palestine, Hezbollah, the Philippine Communists, and Yemen/Ansarallaharchive.org/details/@hu_x_…

Thomas Mrett/Ismail Badiou (archive.org/details/@ismai…, archive.org/details/@marxi…): Amazing and actively updated archive of original book scans, focused on communism and the USSR, but touching on many related subjects. Almost all in English

I'll add to this as I think of more & I apologize if I forgot any mutuals. I'm not including parapolitics accounts who focus on original research and analysis over archiving source materials, even though they do have some nice source materials, bc there'd be too many to shout out