On June 30, 2019 at the Left Forum at Long Island University Brooklyn in New York City, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted two panels titled "Beyond Sect or Movement: What is a Political Center?" and "The New Deal and American Socialism".

Issue #118 of the Platypus Review is now online. This issue features Patrick Zapien on the avant-garde, Frans Ari Prasetyo on Indonesian land reform, Jonathan Black on wage labour and Jan Schroeder on Louis Althusser.

Trump’s victory is the beginning not the end of a process of transforming the Republican Party as well as mainstream politics more generally that is his avowed goal. So the question is the transformation of democracy—of how liberal democratic politics is conducted. This was bound to change, with or without Trump. Now, with Trump, the issue is posed point-blank. There’s no avoiding the crisis of neoliberalism.