special last-minute event thursday! this week in platypus. 4.15.13 - 4.22.13

[Brian C Hioe]

this week in platypus

talk with james turley, from the communist party of great britain and possibly more guests!

Thursday, April 18th

//7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

NYU Kimmel Center, Room 904

//60 Washington Square South, New York, New York 10012

Contact: Brian Hioe

//bch...@nyu.edu

Special guest James Turley, from the Communist Party of Great Britain, and who spoke at the 2013 Platypus International
Convention last weekend in Chicago, will be in New York this week!  Apologies for the last-minute announcement, but
we will be having a talk with him this Thursday at NYU, with possibly more guests to be announced.  Stay tuned for 

details!  

The talk will orient around the discussions and debates between the Platypus Affiliated Society, the Communist Party
of Great Britain, and the International Bolshevik Tendency, of which a dossier of useful documents can be found here.

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weekly coffee breaks

Platypus Coffee Breaks are the informal conversations about 

the meaning and future of the Left that Platypus hosts on a 

weekly basis. They are a great time to meet with members of

Platypus, fellow travelers, and allies of the group. It’s an opportunity
to discuss issues raised in the latest issue of the Platypus Review,
consider the state of the Left, and just hang out with people who have
similar political interests. Please join us! 
newyork.platypus1917.org

--------------------------------------------------- NYU Tuesdays  //6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Think Coffee  //248 Mercer St.  //between 3rd and 4th St. Contact: Brian Hioe //bch...@nyu.edu --------------------------------------------------- Stony Brook  Tuesdays //4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Stony Brook Union Starbucks //250 Stony Brook Union //Stony Brook, New York Contact: Doug La Rocca //dougl...@gmail.com   --------------------------------------------------- New School Thursdays //6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Lang Café //65 West 11th Street Contact: Ross Wolfe  //rosslaur...@gmail.com

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weekly marxist reading group: what is the left?  what is marxism?

for the full syllabus: http://platypus1917.org/2012/12/11/platypus-primary-marxist-reading-group-winter-spring-2013/

• required / + recommended reading

Week 25. Retreat after revolution | Apr. 20–21, 2013

• Lenin, “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
+ Lenin, “Notes of a Publicist” (1922)

--------------------------------------------------- New School Sundays //2:00 pm - 5:00 pm The New School for Social Research //Eugene Lang College Building, Room 258 65 West 11th St  Contact: Ross Wolfe  //rosslaur...@gmail.com

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