Mel Rothenberg

A panel held on May 21st, 2015 at the University of Chicago, hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC). Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Michael Dawson Mel Rothenberg Description The widely publicized killings of black men by police and the resulting movement with its slogan “Black Lives Matter” put back on the agenda of a beleaguered American Left a seemingly perennial question, one that evokes a long history of struggle, longing, and disappointment. [Read More]

A panel was hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society on February 17, 2015 at NYU. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Boris Kagarlitsky: Transnational Institute Mel Rothenberg: Chicago Political Economy Group* Christoph Lichtenberg: International Bolshevik Tendency Description Last year marked the 25 anniversary of the 1989 revolutions – the ‘Autumn of Nations’ in the Soviet bloc. For an entire generation now of age, the USSR and the Cold War are only historical relics. [Read More]

This is part of an international series of panels organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society. For previous panels in this series please see: <marxism-and-anarchism/>. This panel was held at the University of Chicago on 20 November 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Christopher P. (Anarcho-Syndicalist Review) Michael Staudenmaier (author, Truth and Revolution) Mel Rothenberg (Chicago Political Economy Group) Jamie Theophilos (local activist) [Read More]

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]

On May 19, 2011, Platypus invited Carl Davidson, formerly of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Guardian Weekly, Tom Riley of the International Bolshevik Tendency, and Mel Rothenberg, formerly of the Sojourner Truth Organization, to reflect on “The Marxist turn: The New Left in the 1970s.” Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcript in Platypus Review #40 Panelists Carl Davidson (former Students for a Democratic Society) [Read More]