Am 11.06.2014 veranstaltete Platypus an der Goethe-UniversitĂ€t in Frankfurt am Main eine Podiumsdiskussion mit dem Titel âWas war neu an der âNeuen Linkenâ?â. Teilgenommen haben: Detlef zum Winkel (freier Journalist), Alex DemiroviÄ (damals Goethe-UniversitĂ€t) und Stefan Eggerdinger (Arbeiterbund fĂŒr den Wiederaufbau der KPD). Es folgt ein gekĂŒrztes und ĂŒberarbeitetes Transkript der Veranstaltung.
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In one of her earliest interventions in the Social-Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), participating in the notorious theoretical âRevisionist Dispute,â in which Eduard Bernstein infamously stated that âthe movement is everything, the goal nothing,â the 27 year-old Rosa Luxemburg (1871â1919) clearly enunciated her Marxism: âIt is the final goal alone which constitutes the spirit and the content of our socialist struggle, which turns it into a class struggle.â
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On April 2, 2016, during its eighth international convention in Chicago, Illinois, Platypus brought together Jason Schulman of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Bernard Sampson of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA), to discuss how the electoral campaign of Bernie Sanders matters for the Left.
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After the Outbreak of the global economic crisis in 2008, Greece was actually the first Euro-area country where the neoliberal âshock doctrineâ was imposed. This was an attempt to place the fallout of the systemic capitalist crisis on the shoulders of working people. These extreme austerity policies were disputed. A series of mass demonstrations and strikes ensued.
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THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION (CTU)âAmerican Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 1âconducted an unprecedented, bold, and possibly illegal one-day strike on Friday, April 1, 2016. The strike was initially called to protest threatened cuts in pay during contract negotiations and to send a message: âContinue like this and we will strike!â The CTU leaders changed that focus in the week preceding the strike; by strike day, it became a strike for increased state funding for education and all social services.
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