Jack Conrad

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 hosted by Platypus London on October 19, 2017 at Goldsmiths, University of London. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Jack Conrad HaPe Breitman Robert Liow Lyndon White Description Labour lost the election. But Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran of the 1980’s Labour left, seems to have saved the party. Corbyn’s tenure has raised old questions about the Left’s relationship to the Labour Party. [Read More]

A panel event held on 11 February 2016, Goldsmiths, University of London. N.B. An audience question has been removed from audio at the request of the questioner. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Jack Conrad - CPGB / Weekly Worker Elaine Graham-Leigh - Counterfire Jamie Green - Goldsmiths Labour Students / Momentum Judith Shapiro - London School of Economics Description The conditions for the novel political formations of Syriza and Podemos developed out of the disintegration of the traditional Social Democratic parties in Greece and Spain. [Read More]

A panel held on June 4, 2015, at Goldsmiths College, London by the Platypus Affiliated Society. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Simon Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, Politics, Goldsmiths Nancy Taaffe, Socialist Party of England and Wales; TUSC Luke Gregory-Jones, Student Occupier, Goldsmiths Michael Theodosiadis Phd Student, Goldsmiths, respublica.gr Jack Conrad, Communist Party of Great Britain (Weekly Worker); Left Unity Description In spite of many different political currents and tendencies, perhaps the most significant question informing the “Left” today is the issue of “political party. [Read More]

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A with thinkers, activists and political figures focused on contemporary problems faced by the Left in its struggles to construct a politics adequate to the self-emancipation of the working class. Held on March 21st, 2014 at Goldsmith’s College. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Federico Campagna (author of ‘The Last Night - anti-work, atheism, adventure’, Zero Books, 2013) [Read More]