Socialist Alternative

ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 at the University of Houston the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a panel discussion, Anti-fascism in the Age of Trump. Participating on the panel were Gloria Rubac of the Workers World Party; Gus Breslauer of Redneck Revolt; Mark Kazanski of Socialist Alternative, Houston; and Bernard Sampson of the Communist Party, U.S.A., and the Democratic Socialists of America. Danny Jacobs of Platypus moderated. What follows is an edited transcript of their discussion. [Read More]

Honoré Daumier's (1808-1879) 'The Republic', 1848. After the Republic was proclaimed on 24 February 1848, the official image of the State had to be changed. A competition was launched to define the 'painted face of the republic'. The French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor submitted a mother nursing powerful toddlers while holding the tricolour flag in her hand. The child sitting at her feet, reading, was much admired. [Read More]

A panel event held at the School for Visual Arts on February 25, 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Alan Akrivos (Socialist Alternative) Dick Howard (Stony Brook) Alan Milchman (Internationalist Perspective) Joseph Schwartz (DSA) Description From the financial crisis and the bank bail-outs to the question of “sovereign debt”; from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street; from the struggle for a unified European-wide policy to the elections in Greece and Egypt that seem to have threatened so much and promised so little – the need to go beyond mere “protest” has asserted itself: political revolution is in the air, again. [Read More]

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]