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Coffee breaks: weekly informal discussion For in-person conversation, please join our coffee breaks on Fridays at 5pm at Corridor Cafe at the University of Manchester Students' Union on Oxford Road. Our weekly coffee breaks are a great way to meet and get to get to know the Platypus project. It’s an opportunity to discuss issues […]
Pub Socials: weekly informal discussion For in-person conversation, please join our pub socials on Saturdays at 6pm at the Turing Tap on Oxford Road, over the road from the University/round the corner from Manchester Royal Infirmary. Our weekly pub socials are a great way to meet Platypus members and fellow travelers, and to get to […]
“Society is a reality sui generis; it has its own characteristics that are either not found in the rest of the universe or are not found there in the same form." "Society is a sui generis being with its own special nature, distinct from that of its members, and a personality of its own different from individual personalities." — Emile Durkheim
“Society is a reality sui generis; it has its own characteristics that are either not found in the rest of the universe or are not found there in the same form." "Society is a sui generis being with its own special nature, distinct from that of its members, and a personality of its own different from individual personalities." — Emile Durkheim
Coffee breaks: weekly informal discussion For in-person conversation, please join our coffee breaks on Fridays 5pm in the cafe seating area on the ground floor of the University of Manchester Students' Union. Our weekly Coffee Breaks are a great way to meet Platypus members and fellow travelers, and to get to know the Platypus project. […]
Coffee breaks: weekly informal discussion For in-person conversation, please join our coffee breaks. Information on time and place upcoming! Our weekly Coffee Breaks are a great way to meet Platypus members and fellow travelers, and to get to know the Platypus project. It’s an opportunity to discuss issues raised in the latest issue of the […]
Come along to our welcome event to find out more about Platypus and our plans for this term. We hope to meet in person but if we cannot, we will meet on Zoom. Room details or a zoom link will be posted on our Facebook page: facebook.com/PlatypusOxford.
Coffee breaks: weekly informal discussion For in-person conversation, please join our coffee breaks on Fridays 5pm in the cafe seating area on the ground floor of the University of Manchester Students' Union. Our weekly Coffee Breaks are a great way to meet Platypus members and fellow travelers, and to get to know the Platypus project. […]
Introduction to Revolutionary Marxism Tuesdays 6-8pm Until Summer 2021 the primary reading group takes place online, using Zoom. Please see our chapter webpage and facebook page for details on in-person events. Topic: Platypus Manchester | Primary reading grouphttps://zoom.us/j/95543514692 (permanent URL) Meeting ID: 955 4351 4692One tap mobile+442080806592,,95543514692# United Kingdom+443300885830,,95543514692# United Kingdom Dial by your location+44 […]
On 28 November 2020 Platypus Manchester hosted two moderated panel discussion commemorating the date of Friedrich Engels' 200th birthday. Primarily Manchester-based speakers reflected on 200 years of struggle for good housing, and the present moment of housing politics. The discussions included separate sessions of audience Q&A. Audio: https://archive.org/details/engels-at-200-the-housing-question-revisited https://archive.org/details/engels-at-200-tenants-organising-in-the-2020s Video https://fb.watch/2nlxlgBAeF/ https://fb.watch/2nlyYSxgDI/ Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/195543865502986 […]
Until 2021 this will be held on Zoom on Tuesdays at 6pm Please see our chapter webpage and facebook page for details on in-person events. Topic: Platypus Manchester | Primary reading grouphttps://zoom.us/j/95543514692 (permanent URL) Meeting ID: 955 4351 4692One tap mobile+442080806592,,95543514692# United Kingdom+443300885830,,95543514692# United Kingdom Dial by your location+44 208 080 6592 United KingdomMeeting ID: […]
II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism Tuesdays 6-8 via Zoom. For meeting ID/URL, please RSVP at london@platypus1917.org (Previously Wednesdays, 6-8pm, University of Manchester A213 Samuel Alexander Building M13 9PP) • required / + recommended reading Marx and Engels readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978) Recommended winter break preliminary readings: […]
Come hang out with your friendly neighborhood Marxists. Grab a drink and talk about freedom, emancipation, revolution, socialism, Marxism, politics, and Platypus! All welcome. Due to COVID-19, we are meeting later on, Thursdays at 5pm, via Zoom, and some of us with alcoholic drinks! To RSVP and for discussion topics in advance, please write to […]
I. What is the Left? – What is Marxism? Wednesdays, 6-8pm, University of Manchester A213 Samuel Alexander Building M13 9PP (except during UCU strike - Wed 27 Nov, Wed 4 Dec - when location is Chapter One Books, 19 Lever St., M1 1BY) • required / + recommended reading Marx and Engels readings pp. from […]