Exit Left or no Brexit?

 June 9, 2016  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

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]
Britain  EU  Europe  Brexit  CPGB  Socialist Fight  Spiked  Institute of Ideas  Weekly Worker 

Responses to the Global Economic Downturn

 April 2, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A public forum with students, activists and organizers from across the globe held on April 2, 2012. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcript in Platypus Review #48 Panelists Haseeb Ahmed (Maastricht) Valentin Badura (Austria) Cengiz Kulac (Austria) Moritz Roeger (Germany) Jerzy Sobotta (Germany) Thodoris Velissaris (Greece) Moderated by Pam C. Nogales C. Description From teach-ins in the UK, occupations in Austria and Germany and protests in the Netherlands and Greece, responses to the economic downturn are international in character. [Read More]
Platypus International Convention 2012  Austria  Crisis  Europe  Germany  Global financial crisis  Greece  International  Internationalism  Maastricht  Netherlands 

Letter from Greece: Brief notes on Revolt and Crisis in Greece and the Greek situation

Review of Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou, eds., *Revolt and crisis in Greece: Between a present yet to pass and a future still to come*

 November 1, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Oakland: AK Press & Occupied London, 2011 What is happening here exceeds us. (199) THERE IS A BAD THEORETICAL HABIT common among leftists: the confirmation of revolutionary aspirations through an unmediated verification by the “facts” or “data.” The ghost of an “objective” reality obscures the effort to grasp the “concrete” as the combination of many abstractions and, instead, “a chaotic representation [Vorstellung] of the whole” (Marx) is preferred, offering a temporary foundation for self-affirmation and miraculously turning a “bad” reality into a “good” one. [Read More]
Antonis Vardis  Dimitris Dalakoglou  Greece  Europe  European Union