Tom Riley

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 at the Platypus International Convention VII. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Scott Hiley, Communist Party, USA Jorge Mújica, Chicago Socialist Campaign (USA) Tom Riley, International Bolshevik Tendency (Canada) Moderated by Divya Menon Description During the 19th century, suffrage rights were widened in the heart of capital, confronting political radicals with the question of whether and how elective offices could be used to achieve revolutionary aims. [Read More]

A panel discussion held at the 2012 Platypus International Convention on March 31st, 2012.

Audio Recording

Transcript in Platypus Review #47

Panelists

Ben Lewis—Communist Party of Great Britain

Tom Riley—International Bolshevik Tendency

Chris Cutrone (Moderator)—Platypus Affiliated Society

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]