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ON FEBRUARY 17, 2015, Gregor Baszak and Spencer A. Leonard of the Platypus Affiliated Society conducted an interview with Adolph L. Reed, Jr., author of The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon (1986), W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought (1997), and Stirrings in the Jug (1999). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. Spencer A. Leonard: At the beginning of the essay you recently published in Harper’s titled “Nothing Left” you write that the major period of the Left’s influence on the course of American politics was from the mid-1930s to the end of the Second World War. [Read More]

ON THE OCCASION OF THE 25 anniversary of the 1989 revolutions – the “Autumn of Nations” in the Soviet bloc – the Platypus Affiliated Society organized an international panel series on the significance of 1989 for the Left. The panel held at New York University on February 17, 2015 consisted of Boris Kagarlitsky, director of the Institute for Global Research and Social Movements in Moscow, Christoph Lichtenberg, supporter of the International Bolshevik Tendency, and Mel Rothenberg, a member of the Chicago Political Economy Group. [Read More]