Study Group: From Struggle to Socialism
New Study Group: From Struggle to Socialism
In the United States today, most socialists are isolated from the working class. And most stewards and militants have no connection to socialist ideas and organization.
What can change that? We’ll look at successful examples where hundreds of thousands of militants became socialists, from Turin to Johannesburg to Seoul.
We’ll explore how working class consciousness develops, the role of socialist organization, and what we can do today to bring about the fusion of socialist organization and working class struggle.
Next meeting: The Militants of German Social Democracy
Saturday, March 6, 1:30 PM, Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St. 4th Floor SAVE THE DATE!
Readings:
Mary Nolan. “Economic Crisis, State Policy, and Working-Class Formation in Germany, 1870-1900.”
Dick Geary. “Socialism and the German Labor Movement Before 1914.”
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Full outline with projected readings coming soon! For more information and to join the low-traffic New York Solidarity list for related announcements, email nyc@solidarity-us.org!
Study Group: Socialism and the Workers Movement in Italy before WWI (NEW DATE AND TIME)
In the United States today, most socialists are isolated from the working class. And most stewards and militants have no connection to socialist ideas and organization.
What can change that? We’ll look at successful examples where hundreds of thousands of militants became socialists, from Turin to Johannesburg to Seoul.
We’ll explore how working class consciousness develops, the role of socialist organization, and what we can do today to bring about the fusion of socialist organization and working class struggle.
Next meeting: Socialism and the Workers Movement in Italy before WWI
Saturday, April 17, 11:30 AM, email nyc@solidarity-us.org for the location.
Readings:
John A. Davis. “Socialism and the Working Classes in Italy Before 1914”
More on the Study Group
Click here for a more in-depth take on the study group and what we'd like to accomplish.
Click here for the presentation that kicked off our introductory session.
Full outline with projected readings coming soon! For more information and to join the low-traffic New York Solidarity list for related announcements, email nyc@solidarity-us.org!
Study Group: The Radicalization of Russian Labor Before WWI
In the United States today, most socialists are isolated from the working class. And most stewards and militants have no connection to socialist ideas and organization.
What can change that? We’ll look at successful examples where hundreds of thousands of militants became socialists, from Turin to Johannesburg to Seoul.
We’ll explore how working class consciousness develops, the role of socialist organization, and what we can do today to bring about the fusion of socialist organization and working class struggle.
Next meeting: The Radicalization of Russian Labor Before WWI
Sunday, May 23, 11:30 AM, email nyc@solidarity-us.org for the location.
Readings:
S.I. Kanatchikov. “From the Story of My Life,” from Victoria E. Bonnell (ed.), The Russian Worker: Life and Labor Under the Tsarist Regime (University of California Press, 1983).
Victoria E. Bonnell. Excerpt from Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914 (University of California Press, 1983), Chapters 9-10.
More on the Study Group
Click here for a more in-depth take on the study group and what we'd like to accomplish.
Click here for the presentation that kicked off our introductory session.
Full outline with projected readings coming soon! For more information and to join the low-traffic New York Solidarity list for related announcements, email nyc@solidarity-us.org!
Sept. Study Group: Worker Radicalism and Struggle in the US before WWI (RESCHEDULED)
In the United States today, most socialists are isolated from the working class. And most stewards and militants have no connection to socialist ideas and organization.
What can change that? We’ll look at successful examples where hundreds of thousands of militants became socialists, from Turin to Johannesburg to Seoul.
We’ll explore how working class consciousness develops, the role of socialist organization, and what we can do today to bring about the fusion of socialist organization and working class struggle.
Next meeting: Worker Radicalism and Struggle in the US before WWI
NOTE NEW TIME: Saturday, September 25, NOON, email nyc@solidarity-us.org for the location.
Readings:
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, The State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925: Introduction, Chapters 1-4.
Used copies available at:
More on the Study Group
Click here for a more in-depth take on the study group and what we'd like to accomplish.
Click here for the presentation that kicked off our introductory session.
Full outline with projected readings coming soon! For more information and to join the low-traffic New York Solidarity list for related announcements, email nyc@solidarity-us.org!
