October Revolution

ON NOVEMBER 6, 2017, the Platypus Affiliated Society held a panel discussion at the University of Illinois at Chicago on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. The speakers were Jonathan W. Daly (Professor of History at UIC and author of The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906-1917), Franklin Dimitryev (News & Letters), Greg Lucero (Socialist Party USA), and Sam Brown (Black Rose/Rosa Negra). The speakers were asked to respond to the following questions: What were the aims of the 1917 Russian Revolution? [Read More]

A panel discussion held at University of King’s College on 1st February, 2014. Sponsored by the King’s Student Union and Dalhousie Student Union Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Eva Curry – Stand Christoph Lichtenberg – International Bolshevik Tendency Chris Parsons – student activist Alex Khasnabish – The Radical Imagination Project, Mount Saint Vincent University Description It seems that there are still only two radical ideologies: Anarchism and Marxism. [Read More]