https://znetwork.org/author/michael-caspar/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 19 May 2024 12:06:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/michael-caspar/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/history-of-co-op-city/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/history-of-co-op-city/#respond Sun, 19 May 2024 12:06:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266582 In 1909, at a library in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood, Abraham Kazan, a twenty-year-old union clerk who had grown up on the countryside estate of a Russian general in what is now Ukraine, and who arrived in the US aged 15 to work on a Jewish agricultural colony in New Jersey, met an older Scottish anarchist [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/history-of-co-op-city/feed/ 0