August Nimtz

A moderated panel discussion held at the Seventh Annual Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Toby Chow (University of Chicago) Brandon Johnson (Chicago Teachers Union) August Nimtz (University of Minnesota) Adolph Reed, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania) Moderated by Brendan Finucane. Description Beneath a consensus of avowed anti-racism, the American Left remains conflicted about whether and how to politicize race. [Read More]

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. [Read More]

The fourth installment of a panel series with thinkers, activists and political figures focused on contemporary problems faced by the Left in its struggles to construct a politics that adequately address issues of democracy. Held at the University of Chicago on November 23, 2013. The first three panels were held in Halifax, Frankfurt, and Thessaloniki. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Michael Goldfield (Wayne State University) [Read More]