Monthly Review Press

New! “Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution”

New! “Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution”

In her vibrant, politically personal essay, Zillah Eisenstein asks us to consider what it would mean to thread “socialism” to feminism; then, what it would mean to thread “abolitionism” to socialist feminism. Finally, she asks all of us, especially white women, to consider what it would mean to risk everything to abolish white supremacy, to uproot the structural knot of sex, race, gender, and class growing from that imperial whiteness....

Counterfire on Don Fitz’s “Cuban Health Care”

Counterfire on Don Fitz’s “Cuban Health Care”

Don Fitz’s Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution covers a wide range of topics including medical and sanitary advances prior to the 1959 revolution such as viral disease inoculation and suppression, lessons learned from medical and military missions overseas and the challenges of developing a well-functioning healthcare system in the face of international hostility....

“My presence actually matters” (Noura Erakat, contributor to “A Land With A People,” interviews Mohammed El-Kurd in The Nation)

“My presence actually matters” (Noura Erakat, contributor to “A Land With A People,” interviews Mohammed El-Kurd in The Nation)

'In Arabic, there’s this proverb: Somebody else’s troubles make your troubles look like nothing. I’ve always thought my whole life that losing my home is not a big deal. I’ve genuinely always thought: “We’re losing our home, but at least we’re not getting shot. At least we’re not getting our residency revoked.” And I think this most recent uprising has taught me that it actually matters that I stay in my home....'