Arlene Eisen joins us to talk about her book In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women (Iskra Books), which she describes as a social history of the 1960s through the early 1980s, tracing her political journey through movements shaped by Black liberation and Vietnam.
We discuss her time with revolutionaries in places like Peru, Cuba, and Vietnam; radical trade union organizing among Indigenous peasants, and an encouraging encounter with Malcolm X at a Harlem rent-strike meeting. She discusses helping found an SDS chapter at Cornell, her work with The Movement newspaper as a Bay Area link between Black liberation struggles and the white New Left, and reporting on revolutionary figures from Cuba like Haydée Santamaría. Arelene argues for a global anti-imperialist women's movement, and emphasizes clarity on imperialism, internationalism, humility, and lifelong struggle.
05:13 Arlene Introduces the Book
08:46 Peru Fieldwork and Radicalization
12:45 Repression and Malcolm X
18:35 Women Madness and Revolution
21:46 California and SDS Lessons
29:11 The Movement Newspaper
33:09 Cuba Then and Now
47:15 Vietnam Militant Women
52:57 Anti Imperialist Feminism, Repro Justice
57:35 Project 2025, Forced Breeding
01:02:19 Atlanta Child Murders
01:07:44 Single Issue Organizing, Movement Lessons
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