Platypus Euroconference: CPGB Workshop

 July 19, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A workshop with the CPGB held at the Inaugural European Conference of the Platypus Affiliated Society on Saturday, July 19, 2014 at Goldsmiths College, London. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Every year at Platypus conferences, speakers from various perspectives are 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]
Inaugural European Conference  Communist Party of Great Britain  CPGB 

Is there a need for Left Unity?

 July 19, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event held at the Inaugural European Conference of the Platypus Affiliated Society contemplating the question of left unity. The panel was held at Goldsmiths College on July 19, 2014.

Audio Recording

Panelists

Communist Party of Great Britain

International Bolshevik Tendency

Costas Douzinas

Inaugural European Conference  Communist Party of Great Britain  CPGB  IBT  International Bolshevik Tendency  Left Unity 

The Politics of Work, London

 March 21, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A with thinkers, activists and political figures focused on contemporary problems faced by the Left in its struggles to construct a politics adequate to the self-emancipation of the working class. Held on March 21st, 2014 at Goldsmith’s College. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Federico Campagna (author of ‘The Last Night - anti-work, atheism, adventure’, Zero Books, 2013) [Read More]
Communist Party of Great Britain  CPGB  South London People's Assembly  The Last Night  Unite National Officers  Work 

Why still read Lukács?

The place of "philosophical" questions in Marxism

Why still read Lukács?

 February 1, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

The following is based on a presentation given on January 11, 2014 in Chicago. György Lukács in 1913 The role of “critical theory” Why read György Lukács today?1 Especially when his most famous work, History and Class Consciousness, is so clearly an expression of its specific historical moment, the aborted world revolution of 1917–19 in which he participated, attempting to follow Vladimir Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg. [Read More]
György Lukács  cpgb  communist party of great britain  weekly worker 

Conversations on the Left

Paul Demarty (CPGB), Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin), and Benjamin Blumberg (Platypus)

 April 18, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

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]
CBPG  Communist Party of Great Britain  IBT  International Bolshevik Tendency  Jacobin  Platypus  Platypus Affiliated Society  Weekly Worker 

What is Imperialism? (What Now?)

 April 6, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

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]
Platypus International Convention  Platypus International Convention 2013  Communist Party of Great Britain  Communist Voice  CPGB  Platypus  Platypus Affiliated Society  Revolutionary Communist Party 

2013 Platypus International Convention Opening Plenary: The Left in Power?

 April 5, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

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]
Platypus International Convention  Platypus International Convention 2013  Communist Party of Great Britain  CPGB  New Compass  SYRIZA 

Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy

 March 31, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

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

Platypus International Convention 2012  Communist Party of Great Britain  GPGB  IBT  International Bolshevik Tendency  Vladimir Lenin  Occupy  Occupy wall street  OWS 

Communist Party of Great Britain

Differing Perspectives on the Left

 March 30, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A workshop on the Communist Party of Great Britain with Ben Lewis, held on March 30, 2012. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element At the fourth 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]
Communist Party of Great Britain  CPGB  Platypus International Convention 2012 

Platypus Discussion of Mike Macnair's Critique

 June 4, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

June 4, 2011 discussion of Mike Macnair’s critique of Platypus for the Communist Party of Great Britain in The Weekly Worker (see links below to articles under discussion, especially the May 19 article by Macnair, “Theoretical dead end”). Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description “Platypus: Is it a sect? Is it an academic grouping? Is it a theoretical dead end?” The Communist Party of Great Britain’s Mike Macnair’s critique of Platypus in their paper The Weekly Worker is based on a conception of Marxism as practical politics that we don’t share. [Read More]
About Platypus  Communist Party of Great Britain  CPGB  Platypus  Platypus Affiliated Society  Weekly Worker