On September 26, 2025, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel at New York University on socialism, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and the Left. The speakers were Mitchel Cohen (writer, activist, poet, former chair WBAI-FM Local Station Board, Brooklyn Greens, Red Balloon Collective), Daniel Lazare (author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralysing Democracy (1996), his writing appears in Permanent Revolution Blog, the Weekly Worker, and the Platypus Review), Sebastian LM (member of the Young Democratic Socialists of America at NYU, Mamdani campaign worker), and Melvyn Dubofsky (Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology at Binghamton University, author of American Labor Since the New Deal (1971) and Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865–1920 (1975)), who appeared over Zoom. Platypus member Erin Hagood moderated the panel. An edited transcript follows

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