WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that Platypus is the psychoanalyst of the Left? Thinking through this analogy can provide some clarity about the Platypus project and its relationship to the existing Left.
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In the spirit of the 50-year anniversary of 1968, Chris Mansour of the Platypus Affiliated Society interviewed William Andrews about the legacy of the New Left in Japan. William Andrews is a writer, translator, editor, and independent researcher based in Tokyo. He is originally from London and currently a graduate student at Sophia University.
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It is my hope that this reflection, comprising a mélange of history and anecdote, will serve the socialist with the patience for a critical perspective in the 21st century. There is no time like the present for the Left to reconsider the Cuban Question.
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On July 25, 2018âafter a meeting at a symposium hosted by Kingâs College London, entitled 68 and its LegaciesâSophia Freeman interviewed prominent 1960s & â70s radical Kathleen Cleaver via Skype. In 1967, following a secretarial job with the New York office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party, where she became Communications Secretary. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview.
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The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Bobby Seale on July 9th, 2018 at Platypus UC Berkeleyâs New Left reading group. Bobby Seale cofounded the Black Panther Party with Huey Newton in 1966.
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