New Member Syllabus

Module 1

Pre-Reading


Module 2

Organization Means Commitment


Module 3

The Principles of Communism


Module 4

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific


Module 5

Lenin for Beginners

The Fight to Abolish the Police Is the Fight to Abolish Capitalism


Module 6

State and Revolution


Module 7

What Is To Be Done?

“New Tasks and New Forces”


Module 8

Intro to Organizing


Module 9

Proletarian Feminism

The Social Basis of the Women Question – Alexandra Kollontai

The book The Social Basis of the Women’s Question was written shortly before the First All-Russia Women’s Congress, and published in St Petersburg in 1909. In it, Alexandra Kollontai provides a detailed analysis of this issue from a Marxist point of view.

Marxism and Transphobia on the British Left


Module 10

Imperialism: The Highest Stage Of Capitalism


Module 11

Ten Days That Shook The World

Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed. Here, Reed presented a firsthand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution. Reed followed many of the most prominent Bolsheviks closely during his time in Russia.


Module 12

Hammer and Hoe

Study Guide

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.


Module 13

Value, Price, and Profit


Module 14

Wage-Labor & Capital


Module 15

Advanced Organizing

  • Practical Organizing
  • Secrets of a Successful Organizer
  • Philadelphia Tenants Union COVID-19 Organizing Guide