Is there aLeftin the21st Century?

2025 International

Platypus Convention

April 3rd — 5 th

Chicago, IL

Thursday

April 3rd

Thursday

1970s Rank-and-File Militancy and the Decline of the Labor Left in the U.S.

3:30pm — 5:30pm

  • Matt Cavagrotti

Screening and Discussion of Goodbye, Art (Documentary Film)

6pm — 8pm

  • Taylor Ervin

Friday

April 4th

Thursday

What was the Millennial Left?

1pm — 3pm

  • Rebekah (United Kingdom)
  • Hilario (Berlin, Germany)
  • Johannes (Nuremberg, Germany)
  • Ethan (South Carolina)

Students and the Left

1pm — 3pm

  • Chris (Irvine)
  • Yunus (Colombia)
  • Hannah (Berlin, Germany)
  • Theo (Auckland, New Zealand)

What was Neoliberalism?

5pm — 7pm

  • Jamie Merchant (Writer and member of the Chicago Independent Labor Club)
  • Pamela Nogales (Historian, Platypus Affiliated Society)
  • Michael Kazin (Editor emeritus of Dissent Magazine)
  • Branko Marcetic (Jacobin Magazine)

Saturday

April 5th

Thursday

What is Platypus doing?

10am — 12pm

  • Andreas Wintersperger (Austria, Vienna)
  • Kathrin Dick (Germany, Cologne)
  • Ismail Cem Ademir (Irvine)
  • Lucas Zabotin (United Kingdom, Cambridge)

Why does Society have Politics?

1pm — 3pm

  • Douglas Lain (Sublation Media)
  • Bill Ayers (Activist)
  • Alex Higgins (Prometheus Journal)
  • Dave McKerracher (Theory Underground)

Is there a Left in the 21st Century?

5pm — 7pm

  • Andrew Hartman (Historian)
  • Branko Marcetic (Jacobin Magazine)
  • Chris Cutrone (Platypus Affiliated Society)
  • Alex Higgins (Prometheus Journal)

Hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society

“The Left is dead — Long live the Left!”

www.platypus1917.org