Socialists of New York City Spring

February 20–May 28, 2024

New York City, which thinks of itself as the greatest city in the world, is a site of contradictions: exploitation and rebellion, wealth and poverty, power and resistance. This eight-session course, meeting every other week, will chart the city's radical history from precolonial times to the present, and enduring themes of class conflict, housing, immigration, internationalism, labor, a long thread of socialist agitation, and the constant resistance of the ruling class to any assertions of popular power.