Zhenotdel translated from Russian to English means “women’s department.” It was the women’s political division of the of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, then still known as the Bolsheviks. It was established in 1919 and led by Alexandra Kollontai and Inessa Armand. After the untimely death of Armand, it was continued by Kollontai and combated forms of women’s political oppression, the markings of previous modes of production. It lasted till 1930, due to the mistaken decision to abolish it.

We are a decolonial feminist communist publishing press that seeks to republish radical communist, Marxist, New Afrikan, feminist, USSR, GDR, and Palestinian texts that have been forgotten and out of print. Our mission is to republish as many of these as possible, and to make them accessible, free, and easy to distribute.

All the texts are free to download, print, distribute, modify, etc — there is no copyrighted material. We have the option to self-print them through a third party service, but none of the money would go to us.

At this time, we are not large enough to afford our own independently-owned publishing machine. Moreover, by preference we would not want to make money off our products, as it has the potential to encourage the transformation of the publishing house into a petite bourgeois model.

We believe in decolonialism and that colonialism is primary. We support the Marxist-(trans)feminist position. We support New Afrika, land back, and Palestine. We support Black power and gay power. We believe transmisogynoir is functioning as a fulcrum of oppression. And we adhere to a maoist political line and thought.