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You are here: The Platypus Affiliated Society/Archive for category Issue #173
On July 4, 2024, Platypus Affiliated Society member Desmund Hui and Griffith Jones interviewed Au Loong Yu, a longtime Hong Kong labor-rights activist and author of Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China (2020). Griffith Jones, formerly of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) and the Nicaragua Information Committee, has worked in Hong Kong and China since 1996. An edited transcript follows.
On October 30, 2024, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion at the University of Chicago on the then-upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election. The event’s speakers were Jorge Mújica, Chicago labor organizer and member of Morena; Chris Cutrone, founding member and teacher in Platypus and lead organizer of the Campaign for a Socialist Party; and Eddie Liger Smith, founding member and executive of the American Communist Party. Panelists were asked to respond to the following prompt: How should the Left approach the 2024 election? Would a Harris administration offer new opportunities for the Left? Would a Trump administration? What is to be made of third-party candidates?
On May 17, 2024, Platypus New Zealand members Jamie Adam and Michael McClelland interviewed Helen Hindpere, lead writer on the video game Disco Elysium (2019). Set in the fantastic realist world of Elysium, the role-playing game includes skill checks and dialogue trees that allow the player to determine their political ideology while exploring the aftermath of a defeated revolution. Disco Elysium was created by ZA/UM, an Estonian studio with socialist art collective origins.