Pam Nogales, Carlos J. Pereira Di Salvo, and Laurie Rojas At the Left Forum hosted by New York’s Pace University in April of this year, a panel discussion was held on the subject of Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hopes and Failures. Organized by Alex Hanna of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), the panel [...]
September 30th, 2009 | PR web editor | 3 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Exchanges"
What is a movement?
On October 16, 2008, a panel discussion titled What is a Movement? A Discussion on the Meaning and Direction of Left Political “Movements” Historically and Today was held in Chicago. The panelists were Luis Brennan of the new Students for a Democratic Society, Elena Davis of Pomegranate Health Collective, Chuck Hendricks of UNITE/HERE, Jorge Mujica of Movimiento 10 de Marzo, and Richard Rubin of Platypus. The following edited transcript represents only a portion of a more extensive and wide-ranging discussion.
August 24th, 2009 | Platypus Review editor | 1 comment | Continued
Left behind: the working class in the crisis
Chuck Hendricks, Aaron Hughes, Abraham Mwaura, and James Thindwa On April 23, 2009, a panel discussion titled Left Behind: The Working Class In The Crisis was held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The panelists were Abraham Mwaura of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, who has worked as an [...]
July 1st, 2009 | Platypus Review editor | 2 comments | Continued
Progress or regress? The future of the Left under Obama
On December 6, 2008, a panel discussion titled Progress or Regress? Considering the Future of Leftist Politics Under Obama was held in New York City. The Panelists were: Chris Cutrone of Platypus; Stephen Duncombe, a professor at the Gallatin School at New York University and author of Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (2007); Pat Korte of the new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); Charles Post of the Detroit-based organization Solidarity; and Paul Street, author of Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (2008).
May 15th, 2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Remarks on Chris Cutrone’s ‘Iraq and the election: the fog of “anti-war” politics’
Tuomas Nevanlinna I was intrigued to find in The Platypus Review #7 a commentary by Chris Cutrone on the U.S. role in world politics. I found it more sophisticated and original than anything I had previously come across in the mainstream media either here or in Europe. Before launching my machine, I would like to [...]
March 15th, 2009 | Platypus Review editor | 2 comments | Continued
Afghanistan, internationalism and the Left: an interview with Terry Glavin
Andony Melathopoulos The following interview was conducted as an email exchange between Andony Melathopoulos and Terry Glavin in December 2008. Terry Glavin is a Canadian journalist, an outspoken critic of the anti-war movement’s call to withdrawal foreign troops from Afghanistan and a founder of the Afghanistan Canada Solidarity Committee (afghanistan-canada-solidarity.org). Andony Melathopoulos: You just returned [...]
February 1st, 2009 | Platypus Review editor | 2 comments | Continued
Red-baiting and ideology: the new SDS
To the editors of the Platypus Review: I am not now, nor have I ever been, either a Maoist or sympathetic to Maoism. I am also not a member of SDS. I was outraged however, by the blatant red-baiting of Rachel Haut in a recent Platypus Review Interview and disturbed that it seems to have [...]
December 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued
Remember the future! A rejoinder to Peter Hudis on “Capital in History”
Chris Cutrone A rejoinder to Peter Hudis on “Capital in History” Historical consciousness articulates the problem of what “ought” to be with what “is.” The question is how the necessities of emancipatory struggles in the present relate to those of the past. The tasks revealed by historical Marxism have not been superseded but only obscured [...]
November 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 2 comments | Continued
Re-thinking the Crisis of Capital in Light of the Crisis of the Left
Peter Hudis “Far from expressing a sequence of never-ending progression, the Hegelian dialectic lets retrogression appear as translucent as progression and indeed makes it very nearly inevitable if one ever tries to escape regression by mere faith.”—Raya Dunayevskaya (1) It may seem ironic that a moment so typified by the crisis of capital calls for [...]
November 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 2 comments | Continued
Beyond the Politics of Anti-Gentrification: A Response to Laura Schmidt
Mark Hopwood Dessie lives in the neighbourhood of Woodlawn, three blocks south of the University of Chicago, with her father and four cats. Her apartment is part of Grove Parc Plaza, a Section 8 development project built in the late 1960s, but like many public housing residents across Chicago, Dessie doesn’t know how much longer [...]
November 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued