On July 11, 2018 Platypus Affiliated Society members Richard Rubin and James Vaughn gave a teach-in at New York University titled "The Bourgeois Revolution Today."
On this episode of SPS, we discuss "What is the DSA and where is it going?," the Platypus panel at this year's Left Forum (June 2018), with Erin Hagood, Marco Torres joins us to talk about the Mexican elections, and we pay tribute to the one and only, Kanye West.
Mentioned on this episode:
(1) DSA panel from the Left Forum: "What is the DSA?" panel held (06/06) at Left Forum which features Jack Devine, DSA; Jim Creegan, Weekly Worker; and Erin Hagood, Platypus
archive.org/details/WHATISTHEDSA
(2) Platypus Review interview with the DSA candidate for California Lt. Governor, Gayle McLaughlin
platypus1917.org/2018/02/03/keepi…ayle-mclaughlin/
(3) Dissent article on the Mexican Elections by Carlos Bravo Regidor and Patrick Iber
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/mexic…-obrador-amlo
Hosted by Audrey Crescenti, Pam C. Nogales C., Laurie Rojas.
Held June 9, 2018 at the University of Houston. Moderated by Danny Jacobs.
Panelists:
Kelly Alana (Socialist Alternative)
Rainer Durruti (Space City John Brown Gun Club)
Rachel Clarke (Educator)
Description:
Recent school shootings and the ever-recurring instances of police brutality pose acutely the question of gun control today. Should the Left take up the demand for gun control, and if so, how? If not, why not? How is gun control related to the struggle for socialism?
David McReynolds was prominent American socialist and anti-war activist whose career with the War Resisters League spanned 40 years. McReynolds twice ran for President of the United States (1980, 2000) atop the Socialist Party USA ticket, and was America's first openly gay presidential candidate.
The interview took place June 8th, 2018 on Radical Minds (WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago). McReynolds passed away shortly after this interview on August 17th. He was 88 years old.
Panel hosted by the Marxist Humanist Initiative at the Left Forum in New York City. The discussion was moderated by MHI member Ravi Bali.
Speakers:
Daphne Lawless, Fightback
Brendan Cooney, MHI
Chris Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society
Anne Jaclard, MHI
Bill Weinberg, CounterVortex
Tens of millions of Americans and people around the world, including some of “the left,” have regarded Trump and Trumpism as exceptional threats to our well-being that must be resisted tooth-and-nail. But others have argued that anti-Trumpism is a problem, that concerns about Trumpism are a distraction from struggles against neo-liberalism and U.S. state power, and/or that the left should reach out to Trump’s anti-establishment and populist base. This debate featured speakers with different positions on these and related questions. Among the issues considered was whether or not the positions one opposes are genuinely “of the left.”
