Category: Internationalism
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 …
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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Which Way Forward for Pacifica Radio?
by Michael Novick The Pacifica Foundation, license holder for five stations in many of the largest metropolitan areas in the US — WBAI in NY, WPFW in DC, KPFT in Houston, KPFA in Berkeley and KPFK in Los Angeles …
A.I.’s Dirty Secret: Digital Sweat-shops
Millions of human workers in digital sweatshops power Artificial Intelligence by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The current strikes by screen-writers and actors in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have focused attention on the use of AI– “Artificial …
Vol. 35 #2 April-June 2023
The wonderful cover graphic on this issue, and the inside illustration, Capitalism Breaks my Heart, authorized for our use by the artist, Susan Simensky-Bietila, are from the latest World War 3 Illustrated, available from AK Press here: https://www.akpress.org/frontlines-of-repair.html
PART’s Perspective: One Struggle, Many Fronts
One Struggle, Many Fronts! Oppose the Imperialist “Summit of the Americas” By Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Fresh from rattling the saber against China with his Asian allies and lamenting the loss of life in …
Low Intensity Civil Warfare is Underway in the US
PART’s Perspective: Low Intensity Civil Warfare is Underway by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Civil war is the latest buzzword among pundits and politicos, in books and book reviews, radio interviews and podcasts. But the main …
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On the Incapacity of Capitalism to Confront the Crises it Creates
PART’s Perspective: On the Incapacity of Capitalism to Confront the Crises it Creates by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Anyone who imagined that the threat of naked fascism in the US would depart, disappear or …
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TTT on Occupy, Dec. 2011
PART’s Perspective: Occupation, Liberation, and Overcoming Contradictions Among the 99% by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Somewhat akin to the occupation of Alcatraz Island more than four decades ago, Occupy Wall Street has stood the concept …
PART’s Perspective: All Power to the Imagination!
PARTs Perspective All Power to the Imagination by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The so-called left in the US continues to be in the grip of defeatism and acceptance of the parameters and limits of …
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The United Snakes in Africa
Politicians, Prostiticians, and The Ghana-United States Military Base Agreement: What happens when you let the united snakkkes into your home? by Ọbádélé Kambon and Nana Yaw Mireku Yɛboah, University of Ghana Abstract: In this paper, we reject the argument put …
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
I delayed writing this reflection until after midnight on Thursday Nov. 5, so essentially early Friday, Nov. 6. As I write, the election of a president has still not as yet been accomplished, even though a clear and insurmountable majority …