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On April 4, 2024, as part of its 16th annual International Convention, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a workshop at the University of Chicago in which Platypus member Ed Remus interviewed Sean KB, a member of the NYC District Council of Carpenters and a co-host of the podcast The Antifada. An edited transcript follows.
On August 2, 2024, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion on the question “What were the Antideutsch?” at Humboldt University in Berlin. The speakers were Jan Kalk (Gesellschaft für kritische Bildung), Jan Sander (Platypus), Justus Wertmüller (editor of Bahamas), and Detlef zum Winkel (author). The panel was moderated by Platypus member Marius. An edited transcript follows, which was translated by Platypus members Salim Askar, Tobias Rochlitz, Johannes Schön, Jack Verschoyle, Tamas Vilaghy, and Therri Wünsch.
This article was originally published in Bahamas. It is based on the afterword to Jan-Georg Gerber’s Das letzte Gefecht: Die Linke im Kalten Krieg, as well as a talk he gave in January 2024 at the invitation of the Frankfurt Pro-Zionist Left. It has been translated into English by Platypus Affiliated Society member Tamas Vilaghy.
THE TRIUMPH OF the Right-wing Rassemblement National (RN) in the recent 2024 EU elections and Emmanuel Macron’s subsequent call for snap elections prompted the formation of a coalition of center-and-far-Left parties that vowed to save French democracy from the imminent threat of fascism.