Category: Internationalism
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 …
People Get Ready
PART’s Perspective: People Get Ready: The Best Defense is a Good Offense by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Trump’s hospitalization with COVID-19 increases the range of eventualities in the upcoming national election, adding death and …
The Basis of “Whiteness”
I was asked to comment by a long-time comrade on this article: I wrote the following in response: Apart from many factual errors about the WUO and May 19th Communist Organization, and some about STO, the deeper problem is that …
We Must Go All the Way This Time
Transforming a culture of solidarity, resistance and liberation into thoroughgoing social, political and economic revolution There is no question that a profound and long-overdue collective self-examination and cultural revolution is now going on in the United States, not uniformly or …
Stop the Olympics Police State (1984 L.A.)
OLYMPICS 1984: COUNTER-INSURGENCY GOES FOR THE GOLD Prefatory note from 1996: This article, based on research and drafts by Michael Novick, is reprinted from the Spring 1984 issue of BREAKTHROUGH, the political journal of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, an anti-imperialist …
Towards a General Strike: End the COVID Crisis & Create a New World
A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World April 1, 2020 https://cooperationjackson.org The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the world before our very eyes. In less than 3 months, it …
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