Bill Barclay

A panel event held on April 5, 2014 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Bill Barclay  James Heartfield (audacity.org) Mel Rothenberg (Chicago Political Economy Group) Moderated by Alex Gonopolskiy (Platypus London). Description With the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Communist states the world has witnessed the unchallenged restoration of capitalism. [Read More]

A workshop with the Democratic Socialists of America (Joseph Schwartz (Temple University) and Bill Barclay) held on April 5, 2014, at the Sixth Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Every year at the Platypus International Convention, speakers from various perspectives are asked to bring their experience of the Left’s recent history to bear on today’s political possibilities and challenges as part of the “Differing Perspectives on the Left” workshop series. [Read More]

A panel event held on November 5, 2013, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Bill Barclay Democratic Socialists of America/Chicago Political Economy Group Lenny Brody Justice Party/Network for Revolutionary Change Leon Fink Professor of labor history, University of Illinois at Chicago Description Capital is not a book about politics, and not even a book about labour: it is a book about unemployment. [Read More]