Reform

The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution and "Resistance", London

June 13, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

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]

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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC

April 26, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel held on April 26, 2012 at New York University, as part of the 3 Rs panel series. Video Recording Panelists John Asimakopoulos (Institute for Transformative Studies) Todd Gitlin (Columbia University) Tom Trottier (Workers’ International Committee) Ross Wolfe (Platypus Affiliated Society) Description [After the 1960s, the] underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency… in a historical situation of heightened helplessness… became a self-constitution as outsider, as other… focused on the bureaucratic stasis of the [Fordist/late 20th century] world: it echoed the destruction of that world by the dynamics of capital [with the neo-liberal turn after 1973, and especially after 1989]. [Read More]

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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Boston

April 16, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel held on April 16, 2012, in Boston, as part of the 3 Rs panel series. Thanks to Doug Enaa Greene (http://www.youtube.com/user/dwgthed) for the video recording. Video Recording Part One Part Two Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Jeff Booth (Socialist Alternative) Gayge (Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation) Joe Ramsey (Kasama Project) Laura Lee Schmidt (Platypus) J. Phil Thompson (MIT) [Read More]

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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Toronto

March 14, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today, held on March 14, 2012, at the University of Toronto. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Clare O’Connor Baolinh Dang (Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee- Revolutionary Students Movement) Cam Hardy (Platypus) Megan Kinch (#Occupy, Toronto Media Co-Op) Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers) Moderated by Ashley Weger (Platypus) [Read More]

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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Dalhousie

January 19, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today held on Thursday, 19 January 2012 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Eric Anatolik (Occupy NS) Jacques Beaudoin (Parti communiste revolutionnaire - Revolutionary Communist Party, Canada) Howard Epstein (New Democratic Party MLA Halifax Chebucto) Max Haiven (Edu-Factory, Historical and Critical Studies NSCAD) [Read More]

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The ambivalence of the current German student movement

March 15, 2010 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

“DIESER HÖRSAAL IST BESETZT!” (“This lecture hall is occupied!”) In November and December 2009, signs bearing such slogans were found on doors at over 60 German universities. For the second time that year, a broad student movement managed to gain public attention for its demands. Protests at the University of Vienna kicked off what became a Europe-wide solidarity wave. In Germany, the Viennese protest first triggered occupations in Heidelberg, Münster, and Potsdam, after which students at many other institutions also became involved. [Read More]

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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance"

The Problematic Forms of "Anticapitalism" Today

November 6, 2007 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today, held on November 6, 2007, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcripted in Platypus Review #4 Panelists Michael Albert (Z Magazine, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism) Chris Cutrone (Platypus) Stephen Duncombe (Gallatin School of New York University, editor of Cultural Resistance Reader) [Read More]

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Taking issue with identity

The politics of anti-gentrification

November 1, 2007 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

The perception of gentrification in Chicago mirrors would-be progressive groups’ social imaginations and the heterogeneity of their goals. Gentrification is the reconstitution of a neighborhood which occurs when lower-income areas with lower land value are re-developed with higher-value housing into a decidedly wealthier neighborhood. During this process the class-composition and character of the neighborhood is changed; those already living in the neighborhood cannot sustain the rise in property taxes and must move elsewhere. [Read More]