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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the 1989 revolutionsā€”the ā€˜Autumn of Nationsā€™ in the Soviet blocā€”the Platypus Affiliated Society organized an international panel series on the significance of 1989 for the Left. The panel held at New York University on February 17, 2015 consisted of Boris Kagarlitsky, director of the Institute for Global Research and Social Movements in Moscow, Christoph Lichtenberg, supporter of the International Bolshevik Tendency, and Mel Rothenberg, a member of the Chicago Political Economy Group.
This Spring, The Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a series panels on ā€œRadical ideologies today: Marxism and anarchismā€ in New York, Frankfurt, Halifax, Thessaloniki, and Chicago. The panel description reads: ā€œIt seems that there are still only two radical ideologies: Marxism and anarchism. They emerged out of the same crucibleā€”the Industrial Revolution, the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848 and 1871, a weak liberalism, the centralization of state power, the rise of the workers movement, and the promise of socialism. They are the revolutionary heritage, and all significant radical upsurges of the last 150 years have returned to mine their meaning for the current situation. In this respect, our moment seems no different.