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Live Like the World is Dying Podcast: Michael Novick on Antifascist Struggle
(Lightly edited for clarity) Inmn 00:15 Hello, and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I’m your host Inmn Neruin and I use they/them pronouns. This week we are talking …
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For an Eco-Communist Approach to the Future
An Alternative to Degrowth and ‘Luxury’ Communism July 26, 2025 Esteban Mercatante and Federico Fuentes, Socialist Project [Excerpts] NOTE: We could not squeeze even this excerpt into the print edition, but want to share it with readers. We hope to …
Illegal Bylaws Change Threatens Democracy, Diversity at Pacifica Radio
by Michael Novick, former interim General Manager, KPFK-90.7 FM Pacifica radio in Los Angeles What is one of the most critical aspects of these new bylaws, (which we consider an illegal substitution, because they were not adopted by any …
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PART’s Perspective: Sinking Roots of Revolutionary Resistance
Sinking Roots of Revolutionary Resistance by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) As resistance to ICE and the use of military troops reaches a flashpoint in Los Angeles and spreads across the US, we must work …
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Dead Pioneers fuse punk, poetry, Indigenous politics and protest
By Cannon Taylor [Excerpt] The album “PO$T AMERICAN” begins with the sound of Gregg Deal thumping an animal-skinned hand drum. He opens his mouth and belts out the American Indian Movement’s intertribal song of protest — more specifically, a …
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Abolition, Decolonization, and Liberation
By Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-L.A./People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The resistance to European colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Americas has a history over 500 years in length. Resistance to capitalism stretches back over more than two centuries. The …
From the Archives: March-April 2008, TTT Vol. 21 #2
Obama, Imperialism and the Paradox of Plenty amid Poverty by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) In the 1960s, liberal and conservative social theorists used to speculate about the reasons for “the paradox of poverty amid plenty.” …
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Defend Free Speech & Community Media
Remarks by Gerald Horne at FCM/PFB Town Hall, 01-25-2025, with response to a question from a listener from Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African Peoples Socialist Party, another keynote speaker Thank you for inviting me to this important forum. …
Rebuilding Los Angeles
Espa~nol abajo. The incineration of much of the Los Angeles area represents the extent to which settler colonial capitalism has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind of generations, centuries of settler colonialism, land theft, genocide, privatization, gentrification, fossil fuel …
PART’s Perspective: When Will We Ever Learn?
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Many people were stunned by the outcome of the presidential election, and the decisive, if close, victory of Donald Trump. How, they ask, could so many millions of people …
Mumia Abu Jamal Embraces LGBTQ Liberation
https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/mumia-embraces-lgbtq-liberation-on-99-5-fm-wbai/ excerpts from an interview by Out-FM (This interview with Mumia by Bob Lederer and the associated documentary also ran in full on KPFK’s Somethings Happening program, as well as in a later one-hour edited version. The full transcript with …
Autonomous Warrior: US, UK, Australia Hold Robot Navy War Games
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA (ARA-LA/PART) I have paid close attention to the TV series NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) ever since NCIS Los Angeles ran an episode fictionalizing Occupy LA’s Occupy the Ports action that I was involved …
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PART’s Perspective: Moratorium Against Genocide & Apartheid
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) During the Vietnam War era, the peace, antiwar and internationalist solidarity movements in the US came with a wide diversity of tactics and actions that persisted, grew and intensified …
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Project 2024, Agenda 47, and Conflicts Within the Right
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles It would be wrong to assume that Donald J. Trump’s distancing himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-produced “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”, is only an electoral ploy. It is true that …
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