Paul Demarty

A panel event on 30 November 2016 at the London School of Economics. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Adam Booth (writer and activist with Socialist Appeal and the International Marxist Tendency) James Heartfield (Sp!ked / Author of ‘An Unpatriotic History of the Second World War’) Patrick Neveling (SOAS Development Studies, Utrecht University Cultural Anthropology) Paul Demarty (Weekly Worker / CPGB) Description The Left has for over a generation – for more than 40 years, since the crisis of 1973 – placed its hopes in the Democratic and Labour Parties to reverse or slow neoliberal capitalism – the move to trans-national trade agreements, the movement of capital and labor, and austerity. [Read More]

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Ursula Jensen (IBT) Paul Demarty (CPGB) Moderated by Richard Rubin. Description In the late nineteenth century, working people’s response to capital was expressed in the political demand for Socialism. This demand galvanized the formation of European Social Democratic parties guided by the ideology of Marxism. Among the most influential members of the German Social Democratic Party, the political leaders of the Second International, agreed that the primary task of Social Democratic parties was bringing about the dictatorship of the proletariat, that is, the decisive political struggle between capital and labor. [Read More]

A panel event held at New York University on April 18, 2013. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcripted in Platypus Review #57 Panelists Paul Demarty (CPGB) Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin) Benjamin Blumberg (Platypus) Description Recently, a series of exchanges between the Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC), the International Bolshevik Tendency, and the Platypus Affiliated Society has unfolded, mapping a field of positions and historical perspectives whose contours trace some of the most provocative contemporary perspectives on Marxism, socialism, and democracy. [Read More]

A panel held on April 6 2013, at the 2013 Platypus International Convention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcribed in Platypus Review #59 Panelists Larry Everest (Revolutionary Communist Party) Joseph Green (Communist Voice) Paul Demarty (Communist Party of Great Britain) Description Ten years on from the US invasion of Iraq, are we any closer to understanding what Imperialism is and why we are against it? [Read More]

The opening plenary of 2013 Platypus International Convention, a panel held on April 5, 2013, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Eirik Eiglad (New Compass) Andreas Karitzis (SYRIZA) Paul Demarty (Communist Party of Great Britain) Description Recently Leo Panitch, characterized SYRIZA as “the most promising anti-neoliberal party on the European political stage”. This statement reflects the mood of many in the Left, who have seen the huge electoral empowerment of this left Greek party as a spark for a possible global reconstitution of the radical Left. [Read More]

A panel discussion with audience Q & A on the problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today. Held on Wednesday 13 June, 7pm at the University of London Union (ULU), Malet Street, London. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Clare Solomon (co-editor of Springtime: The New Student Rebellions (2011); President of the University Of London Union in 2010) James Heartfield (active in extra-parliamentary Left for thirty years; author of The ‘Death of the Subject” Explained (2002), and the forthcoming Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (2012)). [Read More]