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!