Third Parties and the Left

Problems and Prospects

This panel discussion was hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the School of the Art Institute at Chicago on October 3, 2016. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Lenny Brody, Justice Party William Pelz, director of the Institute of Working Class History Mimi Soltysik, Socialist Party USA Description Electoral politics are a longstanding problem for the U.S. left. In recent decades, a number of parties have formed as an alternative to the Democratic Party: the Labor Party, the Green Party, and now, the Justice Party. [Read More]

The Politics of Work

Chicago

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]

Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects

A panel recorded at the Left Forum at Pace Univeristy in New York City on 18 March 2012. Aired on April 10, 2012 on the Radical Minds radio show. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Katie Robbins (Healthcare NOW) Nikil Saval (n+1) Jason Wright (International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT)) Lenny Brody (Justice Party National Steering Committee) Moderated by Ed Remus Description Electoral politics are a longstanding problem for the U. [Read More]

Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects

Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Nikil Saval is an editor at n+1, and a co-editor of Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America (Verso, 2011). He is currently writing a history of office design and white-collar work. Lenny Brody is an activist, student of political change, printing industry worker, and descendant of union organizers. He fought with Martin Luther King, Jr. [Read More]