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About Zillah Eisenstein

Zillah Eisenstein is a well known anti-racist feminist author, activist, and professor. She has written more than 12 books and hundreds of articles detailing the continual struggles for social justice by women of all colors across the globe. See her website for more details.
  • Central Park North crosswalk

    Watching ‘When They See Us’, as a white woman

    Zillah Eisenstein

    In order to really see these boys and their families white people have to see themselves as participatory in racism. So to see their innocence “we” must see our own part, our guilt, our responsibility in the newest forms of slavery, no longer chattel, but carceral.

  • #MeToo march Los Angeles

    Times up for Capitalist Patriarchal Racism—and not just for the men who perform it

    Zillah Eisenstein

    As we head into the 2018 elections feminists of all sorts must make sure that there is a revolutionary commitment to restructure the massive system of oppression maintained by sexual violence. Becoming a part of the existing structure is not enough—nor is simply being female.

Books By Zillah Eisenstein

  • Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution May 09, 2019
  • Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism January 07, 2019

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor Cuban Flag, Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba, 2012

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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