Friday, February 19th, 2009. 7pm
Hart House, South Dining Room
7 Hart House Crescent,
University of Toronto
The economic crisis, as many commentators and critics are quick to point out, has rekindled interest in—and anxieties over—Marxism. Although many on the Left hope this renewed curiosity marks the beginning of a radical turn, similar revivals of anti-capitalist politics in the [...]
Fora
Is Marx Back? An Interview with Leo Panitch
Workers in a Time of War (public forum)
Pakistan and the Crisis of the International Labor Movement
Sunday December 6th at 2pm
International House, University of Chicago 1414 E. 59th Street
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A bringing together three leading figures of the Pakistani labor movement to talk about workers rights, women’s rights, the struggle to organize in the shadow of the Taliban, and [...]
Left behind: the working class in the crisis (public forum)
The Platypus Affiliated Society presents, a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A addressing issues of global capital, trade unions, workers rights, international solidarity, and immigration, in light of recent economic and political change.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive (main auditorium)
Speakers include:
Abraham Mwaura, United Electrical, Radio and Machine [...]
Platypus at Left Forum 2009
Left Forum 2009 “Turning Points”
April 17-19, 2009
Dialectics of Defeat: Towards a Theory of Historical Regression and
Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hopes and Failures
Progress or Regress? The Future of the Left under Obama (December 6, 2008)
The Platypus Affiliated Society in New York organized a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A to critically evaluate the widespread assumption that the election of Barack Obama presents an opportunity for today’s Leftists. Asking how opportunity can be distinguished from opportunism, Platypus invited several intellectuals and activists to publicly think through the foreseeable pitfalls and [...]
December 7th, 2008 | admin | 4 comments | Continued
What is a Movement?
“The desire for revolution cannot be born only
when the situation is ripe, because among the
conditions for this ripeness are the revolutionary
demands made of an unripe reality.”
- Leszek Kolakowski
What is a Movement?
A discussion on the meaning and direction ofLeft political “Movements” historically and today.
with Luis Brennan (new Students for a Democratic Society),
Elena Davis (Pomegranate Health Collective),
Chuck [...]
The Crisis in Marxist Thought forum (Chicago 7/25/08)
Public forum with the Marxist-Humanist Committee hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society
The Crisis in Marxist Thought
Panel presentations and audience Q&A by: Kevin Anderson, Chris Cutrone (Platypus), Peter Hudis, Andrew Kliman, and Sandra Rein.
Event was held on Friday, July 25, 2008 6-9PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan [...]
Determining Palestine
A panel discussion with Atiya Khan and Tomis Kapitan on self-determination and Israel-Palestine closing night event for On Naji al-Ali art exhibition curated by Haseeb Ahmed
Audio coming soon….
Immigration rights and the labor movement
Information session for organizers of the May 1, 2008 International Workers’ Day demonstration in Chicago
with Tania Unzueta May 1st Youth,
Jorge Mujica Movimiento 10 de Marzo, and
Shaun Harkin International Socialist Organization
Audio link here
One State
A conversation with Raja Halwani and Richard Rubin on Israel-Palestine and the one-state solution opening night reception for On Naji al-Ali
art exhibition curated by Haseeb Ahmed
