New York Workers School

New York Workers School
Successor	Jefferson School of Social Science
Formation	1923
Dissolved	1944
Purpose	Educational, propagandist, indoctrinal
Headquarters	28 E 14th Street, New York City
Coordinates	40°44′7″N 73°59′32.5″W / 40.73528°N 73.992361°W
Director	Bertram Wolfe (1923–1929)
Assistant Director	Ben Davidson (1923–1929)
Director	Abraham Markoff (1929–1938)
Director	Will Weinstone (1938–1944)
Board of directors	Advisory Board: David Saposs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Floyd Dell, John Dos Passos
Secessions	New Workers School
Affiliations	Communist Party USA

The New York Workers School, colloquially known as "Workers School", was an ideological training center of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) established in New York City for adult education in October 1923. For more than two decades the facility played an important role in the teaching of party doctrine to the organization's functionaries, as well as offering a more general educational program to trade union activists.

The Workers School was a model for local CPUSA training centers in the area (e.g., the Jewish Workers University, founded in New York City in 1926)^[1] and in other American cities (e.g., the Chicago Workers School).^[2] It also provided the direct inspiration for the New Workers School, established by the breakaway Communist Party (Majority Group) headed by Jay Lovestone and Benjamin Gitlow (supported by Bertram D. Wolfe and Ben Davidson) after they left the Communist Party in 1929.

The Workers School was dissolved through merger in 1944, becoming part of the CPUSA's Jefferson School of Social Science.

^ Michaels, Tony (2011), "The New York Workers School, 1923-1944: Communist Education in American Society", in Lederhendler, Eli (ed.), Communism and the Problem of Ethnicity in the 1920s, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 40, ISBN 9780199842353
^ Hunt, Jonathan (2015). "Communists and the Classroom: Radicals in U.S. Education, 1930–1960". Composition Studies. 43 (2). Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati: 22–45. Retrieved February 7, 2016.

[1] Michaels, Tony (2011), "The New York Workers School, 1923-1944: Communist Education in American Society", in Lederhendler, Eli (ed.), Communism and the Problem of Ethnicity in the 1920s, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 40, ISBN 9780199842353

[Hunt-2] Hunt, Jonathan (2015). "Communists and the Classroom: Radicals in U.S. Education, 1930–1960". Composition Studies. 43 (2). Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati: 22–45. Retrieved February 7, 2016.

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