Democracy and the Left
A moderated panel discussion held on April 11 at the Platypus International Convention VII.
Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Mike Macnair, CPGB (UK)
August Nimtz (University of Minnesota)
Aaron Smeaton (Groupe Internationaliste Ouvriere, Internationalist
Communist Tendency) Peter Staudenmaier (Institute for Social Ecology)
Moderated by Jamie Keesling.
Description From the financial crisis and the bank bail-outs to the question of “sovereign debt”; from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street; from the struggle for a unified European-wide policy to the elections in Greece and Egypt that seem to have threatened so much and promised so little – the need to go beyond mere “protest” has asserted itself: political revolution is in the air, again.
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