Hillel Ticktin

Platypus European Conference 2018 Goldsmiths, University of London Boris Kagarlitsky (Author; Institute of Globalization and Social Movements) Alex Demirovic (University of Frankfurt; Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) Mark Osbourn (Alliance for Workers Liberty) Hillel Ticktin (University of Glasgow; Founding Editor, Critique) Chris Cutrone (School of the Art Institute Chicago; Platypus) Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description The recent polarisation of politics, in the UK manifested around Corbyn and Brexit, has led some commentators to herald the end of neoliberalism. [Read More]

On February 16 2018, as part of its Fourth European Conference, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a panel discussion, “50 Years of 1968,” at Goldsmiths University. Moderated by David Faes of Platypus, the event brought together the following speakers: Robert Borba, supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP USA); Judith Shapiro, professor at the London School of Economics, former member of the Spartacist League, and adviser to the Russian Ministry of Finance; Jack Conrad, of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Weekly Worker; and Hillel Ticktin, honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow University. [Read More]

A panel event held on Saturday, December 1st, 2012 at the Mile End campus of Queen Mary University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcribed in Platypus Review #55 Panelists David Graeber Hillel Ticktin James Woudhuysen Saul Newman Moderated by Lucy Parker. Description The present moment is arguably one of unprecedented confusion on the Left. The emergence of many new theoretical perspectives on Marxism, anarchism, and the left generally seem rather than signs of a newfound vitality, the intellectual reflux of its final disintegration in history. [Read More]