“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
Ròt-Bò-Krik
Ròt-Bò-Krik is a small, independent, polyphonic, joyful and baroque publishing house. It was born in Sète in the summer of 2021.
Ròt-Bò-Krik publishes books of modest form and easy format, inexpensive, to put into circulation texts, fictional or not, which play the role of facilitators between utopias of yesterday and tomorrow. It intends to propagate improbable, unknown, salient, inflammatory, cosmopolitan, edgy, prolific, colorful, cutting works.
By choosing to adorn each of its publications with works by William Morris, an ardent defender of emancipatory art, reinventing a horizon by drawing inspiration from ancient popular practices, Ròt-Bò-Krik asserts the artisanal and committed nature of its editorial peddling.
The Ròt-Bò-Krik editions were founded with long-term Chimurenga comrade and collaborator, Dominique Malaquais (†).
