rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/form/summer-2026-reading-group-signup-form?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-form-area-summer-2026-reading-group-signup-form' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> NYC-DSA Citywide Political Education Committee https://actionnetwork.org/groups/wg-citywide-poli-ed https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg As socialists, political education is essential for reflecting on what we’re learning when we’re out talking to neighbors and co-workers, and creating our strategies with comrades about what we can do to change the world. Thanks to the work of organizers across the chapter, we are proud to offer twenty-five reading groups this summer! Please look through the options and select the ones you are interested in at the bottom of the page. Andrea Long Chu’s Females in Context (connected with the Socialist Feminist Working Group) Explores: Andrea Long Chu’s controversial 2019 polemic Females alongside the very texts that inspired it–feminist theory, internet studies, Freud, and more! Capital Vol. 1 Explores: Marx’s critique of classical political economy, and aims not just to understand Marx, but to build our shared capacity for analyzing capitalism. Cybernetic Revolutionaries Explores: the lost (but not forgotten) dreams of techno-socialism to make sense of our current period of massive technological tumult. Democracy is Power! In the Union and Beyond Explores: the fundamental role Member Democracy plays in building political power for the left. Democratic Socialists and the Black Freedom Movement Explores: how the Black Freedom Movement developed socialist politics in the United States and how the strategies they used can be applied today. Early American Socialisms: Hilquit's History of Socialism in the United States Explores: 19th century socialist ideas and key figures in 19th c. United States of America. Football: The People's Game (connected with the Socialist Soccer League) Explores: the historical connections between football (aka soccer) and the working class–football as resistance to colonialism and dictatorship, left-wing football clubs, and the sport’s relation to Palestine. Freedom Summer: The Fight for Voting Rights in Mississippi Explores: the history of the voting rights movement in Mississippi, its successes and failures, and how those lessons can be applied to current organizing. Hegelian Dialectics and the Spirit of Leftist Politics Explores: Hegel’s importance to left-wing thought and the meaning of “dialectical” through selections from Phenomenology of Spirit. Imperialism through a Fictional Lens Explores: environmentalist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperialist ideas through Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Word for World is Forest. Innies vs. Outies: Worker Alienation in Popular Culture Explores: worker alienation in contemporary life through pop culture, including Severance, Charlie Chaplin, and David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs! Marx’s Political Theory of Class and Left Populist Strategy Explores: socialist theory as a living method to meet our current historical moment through classic left thinkers like Marx to contemporary thinkers like Chantal Mouffe. Modern History of the Strike (held by the Labor Working Group) Explores: the history of strikes are and the labor movement past and present, including the Teamsters Rebellion and the New York City Nurses strike. No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age Explores: tactics for today’s labor movement through the foundational contemporary socialist text No Shortcuts by Jane MacAlevey. Organize the Underground Explores: George Jackson’s Blood in My Eye with the aim of direct application to participants’ neighborhoods, communities, and working groups. Pornocracy: Exploitation in the Digital Age (connected with the Socialist Feminist Working Group) Explores: the politics of pornography and the proliferation of porn’s implications for women and feminism. Private Equity Is Evil Explores: how private equity finance works and its role in Capital’s immiseration of the working class and society at large. Revolutionary Strategy & The Long Reroute Explores: the political strategy of the DSA as a socialist organization in the United States in the twenty-first century. Revolutions Podcast Explores: the history of the Paris Commune and the Mexican Revolution. Shock and Awe: The Shock Doctrine and Neoliberalism Revisited (connected with the Anti-War Working Group) Explores: the concepts of Disaster Capitalism and Neoliberalism with an emphasis on their relationship to US imperialism. The Art of Socialism: How Creative Expression Shaped the Socialist Movement Explores: the ways in which creative expression shaped the socialist movement in the United States. The Black Panther Party: Program and Practice (connected with the AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus) *This group will center participation of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color Explores: the programs of the Black Panther Party alongside present-day organizing efforts through a mix of historical accounts and primary documents. The General Strike Explores: the relationship between economic struggle, political struggle, and revolution through discussion of previous examples of the general strike and how it relates to socialist strategy. William Morris: An Arts & Crafts movement for the 21st century Explores: the Arts & Crafts movement in 19th c. England, the work of William Morris, and contemporary possibilities for artmaking beyond capital investment and institutional support. Women and Marxism (connected with the Socialist Feminist Working Group) Explores: the Marxist approach to women’s oppression under capitalism and their possible liberation under socialism, with a focus on women revolutionaries and feminist thinkers. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/summer-2026-reading-group-signup-form