Women: the Longest Revolution?

Platypus 2016 convention

Held on Saturday April 2, 2016. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Marilyn Nissim-Sabat (Lewis University) Christine Riddiough (Chicago Women’s Liberation Union) Judith Gardiner (University of Illinois at Chicago) Description Named after Juliet Mitchell’s 1966 essay, this panel will explore the long history of the struggle for women’s liberation from the vantage point of the Left today. Mitchell critiques bourgeois feminist demands such as the right to work and equal pay to posit the need instead for equal work. [Read More]

Differing Perspectives on the Left

International Marxist-Humanist Organization (US)

A workshop on the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, with Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Peter Hudis, held on April 6, 2013, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element At the fifth annual international convention of the Platypus Affiliated Society, speakers from various perspectives were 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]