Category: Economics
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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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The Math of Repression and Exploitation
The Mathematics of Repression and Exploitation by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action/People Against Racist Terror The New York Times a few years ago ran an interesting series about mathematics — “Me, Myself and Math” — how numbers appear in and affect …
