Meskerem () was a communist theoretical publication published in Ethiopia, issued by the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia. The goal of Meskerem was to relate Marxist-Leninist theory to objective conditions in Ethiopia.Keller, Edmond J. Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. p. 199 Meskerem functioned mainly as an instrument for political education. Amha Dagnew was the editor-in-chief of Meskerem.World Marxist review, Volume 24. 1981. p. 40
Meskerem was published quarterly.Lockot, Hans Wilhelm. Bibliographia Aethiopica 2 The Horn of Africa in English Literature. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1998. p. 521 The first issue of Meskerem was published in September 1980 and the last issue (vol. 3, no. 14) was published in June 1983.Clapham Christopher. Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. p. 262 Meskerem, which appeared in both Amharic and English versions, had a circulation of 100,000.Ofcansky, Thomas P., and LaVerle Bennette Berry. Ethiopia: A Country Study. [Whitefish, Mont.?]: Kessinger Pub, 2007. p. 257
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External links “መስከረም” — some issues of the Amharic-language edition of the journal “መስከረም” (“Meskerem”).