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Sinking Deep Roots of Solidarity and Resistance by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Bloody repression is hardly a new phenomenon in the history of the US. From the wars of extermination to carry out …
Mumia Freedom Tour in L.A. Dec. 9, 2025
Jamal ibn Mumia, son of political prisoner, movement journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal brings the Mumia Freedom Tour to Southern California. He will speak about his father’s case and about the Freedom From Frame-Up Foundation that he …
Palantir Colonizes Los Angeles
Palantir Technologies has long contracted with the LAPD to provide software and data analysis capacities that fuel “Pred-Pol”, predictive (some say, predatory) policing, and the widespread use of automated license plate readers that track and identify every vehicle on …
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 …
