Category: PART’s Perspective
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 …
Blood on Their Hands:
War in Ukraine: US, NATO Share the Blame with Putin by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA Putin’s valid criticism of a US “Empire of Lies” and of NATO war-making and warmongering do not add up to a justification of the …
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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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 …
Time for Total Transformation
PART’s Perspective: Time for Total Transformation by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) An undeniable sea change in mass public consciousness and practice has been taking place in the US in the past couple of months. …
Fight for the Future
PART’s Perspective: Fight for the Future by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, where as we were (belatedly) going to press, the number of cases are the highest …