- Platypus Review #103 is out!Issue #103 of the Platypus Review is now online. This issue features Kacper Grass on the Catalan Republic, and interviews with Brendan O'Neill, the editor of Spiked!, and Gayle McLaughlin, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2018 election.
Marxism in the Age of Trump - new book!Trump’s victory is the beginning not the end of a process of transforming the Republican Party as well as mainstream politics more generally that is his avowed goal. So the question is the transformation of democracy—of how liberal democratic politics is conducted. This was bound to change, with or without Trump. Now, with Trump, the issue is posed point-blank. There’s no avoiding the crisis of neoliberalism.
Platypus European Conference 2018: 50 Years After '68: Does Socialism Have a Future?February 16th & 17th | Goldsmiths College, University of London Featuring: Laurie Penny, Frank Furedi, Boris Kagarlitsky, Lindsey German, Hillel Ticktin, Alex Demirovic & more
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On November 2, 2017, Chris Mansour interviewed Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked! and a panelist on a conversation that took place the night before entitled Is the Left Eating Itself?, part of an international discussion linked to Spiked!’s Unsafe Space Tour, which aimed to tackle issues such as campus culture, free speech, and Title IX. A recording of the conversation can be found at . What follows is an edited transcript of the interview.
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THE EVENTS OF OCTOBER 2017 and the subsequent election held on December 21st have done little to resolve the issue of Catalan independence, which has now escalated into a regional and national crisis marked by political gridlock and polarization among the Catalan people. This polarization has taken a particular toll on the Catalan left as well as on the region’s labor movement, allowing the bourgeoisie to remain in power and further its own agenda by exploiting the issue while the Left remains fractionalized and at odds about the way forward.
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Gayle McLaughlin served two four-year terms as the mayor of Richmond, California, first elected in 2006 and then reelected in 2010. She was first elected to city council in 2004 as a member of the Green Party and was again elected to the council in 2014 after finishing her second term as mayor. She is a co-founder of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, which enjoys a majority on the Richmond City Council. In 2017, Gayle announced her candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of California. The election will be held on November 6, 2018. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview conducted with McLaughlin by William Lushbough of the Platypus Affiliated Society on December 2, 2017, at her home in Richmond.
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Bini Adamczaks neu erschienenes Buch Der schönste Tag im Leben des Alexander Berkman. Vom möglichen Gelingen der Russischen Revolution nimmt sich ihrer Geschichte an, um die potentiellen, aber nicht realisierten Möglichkeiten des historischen Moments erfahrbar zu machen. Mit der freundlichen Zustimmung des edition assamblage Verlags sowie Adamczak selbst kann hier ein kleiner Auszug aus dem Kapitel
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Zum 100. Jubiläum der Russischen Revolution von 1917 veranstaltete Platypus am 03. November 2017 eine Podiumsdiskussion in Frankfurt mit Frank Ruda (Philosoph), Lars Quadfasel (Hamburger Studienbibliothek), Anton Stortchilov (Die LINKE) und Rafael Rehm (Der Funke).
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