Mike Macnair

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Neil Davenport - Institute of Ideas / Spiked Mike Macnair - Communist Party of Great Britain / Weekly Worker Gerry Downing - Socialist Fight Description A united and peaceful Europe seemed to be a distant dream for a generation which went through the experience of war and destruction. In the latter part of the 20th century, this hope gained shape in the new realities of the European Union. [Read More]

The closing plenary of our Seventh Annual International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone, Platypus Mike Macnair, CPGB (UK) Adolph Reed, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Tom Riley, International Bolshevik Tendency (Canada) SAIC Moderated by Tom Willis Description In spite of many different political currents and tendencies the most significant question informing the “Left” today is the issue of “political party. [Read More]

A moderated panel discussion held on April 11 at the Platypus International Convention VII. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Mike Macnair, CPGB (UK) August Nimtz (University of Minnesota) Aaron Smeaton (Groupe Internationaliste Ouvriere, Internationalist Communist Tendency) Peter Staudenmaier (Institute for Social Ecology) Moderated by Jamie Keesling. Description From the financial crisis and the bank bail-outs to the question of “sovereign debt”; from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street; from the struggle for a unified European-wide policy to the elections in Greece and Egypt that seem to have threatened so much and promised so little – the need to go beyond mere “protest” has asserted itself: political revolution is in the air, again. [Read More]

One of the plenary sessions held at the third annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention, hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from April 29–May 1st, 2011, set about exploring the legacy of Trotsky’s Marxism. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcript in Platypus Review #38 Panelists Mike Macnair, Communist Party of Great Britain (Oxford Univ. St. Hugh College) Bryan Palmer, Trent University [Read More]

Mike Macnair of the Communist Party of Great Britain introduces his party’s politics and project to an audience at the Third Annual Platypus International Convention in Chicago in 2011.

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