Wed, Apr 16
|San Francisco
Book Club - Bay Area Tech Workers Coalition
We will be discussing The History of May Day by Alexander Trachtenberg. Available online at: bit.ly./bookclub-2
Time & Location
Apr 16, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
San Francisco, 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Guests
About the event
For this month’s edition we’ll read Alexander Trachtenberg’s The History of May Day, originally published in 1932. Join us to learn about and discuss the origins of May Day in the fight for the 8-hour workday and its importance to socialist movements around the world.
Syzygy Arts Co-op (395 South Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, near 16th St Mission Bart)
Wednesday, April 16th 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Please read the article beforehand - We’ll have physical copies available and some time to read at the beginning, but we’ll spend most of the time talking
Guided discussion - We’ll talk through what we thought about the article and how it applies today. There’ll be rough guiding questions to keep us going.
New comrades - We won’t all know each other, and we all have our own stories - learning about history together and sharing our experiences…