Please forward widely: The new issue of "Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education," Volume 19 Number 6, November-December 2006, is now out. The lead article, on GI Resistance by Susan Galleymore, a military mom and core member of "Courage to Resist," a support group for troops that refuse to fight, includes a survey of a number of recent xases of resistance, such as Agustin Aguayo, Suzanne Swift, and Ehren Watada, contact information on their cases and others, and a sidebar by Lori Hurlbaus on the upcoming days of action in support of GI resistance and rights, December 8-10.
On another aspect of the struggles inside the US military machine, Kathy Gilberd writes about racist groups active in the US military, including a Coast Guard officer who was recruiting for the KKK and faced court-martial for illegal possession of "large-capacity" firearms and explosive materials. The article surveys many other similar cases, and situates the problem within institutionalized racism in the functioning and mission of the US military. Rounding out a historical and international look at anti-imperialist resistance within the military, the issue includes "Against the System: Anti-War Writings of Kuroshima Denji" by Zeljko Cipris, a historical analysis of the still-timely lessons and message of a leading Japanese war resister and author who opposed Japanese militarism and imperialism in the early years of the 20th Century and in the build-up to World War II, during the Japanese invasion of China. That piece also includes excerpts from "Militarized Streets," Kuroshima Denji's novel, suppressed by both the Japanese state and later the US occupation regime under Douglas MacArthur, which portrayed the revolutionary potential of an alliance between soldiers and workers, and between the rank and file in the Japanese imperial army and the Chinese workers and peasants they were confronting. "Echoes of the Toledo Uprising: Failures of Anti-Racist Action and the Left in north-east Ohio," by Noah Learned for the ARA Network and its Toledo Solidarity Working Group, is a critical and self-critical examination of failure by self-proclaimed anti-fascists to adequately respond in solidarity with the mostly-Black community of Toledo against repression and incarceration of African-American protesters who rebelled against white supremacists and the cop protectors last year. The piece grew out of an effort by ARA to rectify its own practice on the issue, and challenge other Euro-American activists in Toledo to do the same. "PART's Perspective" by Michael Novick of Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) concludes that "When Tyranny is Law, Revolution is in Order," examining the legalization of torture and indefinite uncharged detention, as well as the elimination of habeas corpus. But the editorial also sounds a cautionary note on expecting the November elections to offer any redress or change; and draws out some lessons from previous failures of revolutionary efforts. Mumia Abu-Jamal's insightful essay "Revisioning John Brown: 'His Truth is Marching On'" looks at contemporary lessons, particularly for white anti-racists who would ally themselves with liberation movements, of John Brown's participation in the fight against slavery and white supremacy before the U.S. Civil War. (Thanks to Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio, producer of Mumia's commentaries, for making available this much longer piece, prepared for a discussion at Carnegie-Mellon University in October.) The people's power struggle in Oaxaca and its implications for the US are featured on the cover and in a three-part survey piece, with introductory editorial comments, "Revolution at our Doorstep." This features two reports from Oaxaca itself, where bloody repression by para-military forces was only the prelude for even worse hostilities launched by the Mexican federal forces sent in by lame duck president Vicente Fox. Among the pieces included are murdered US indy-media journalist activist Brad Will's last email dispatch, and a piece by Raul Gatica, a member of CIPO-in-exile in Canada, about "The Politics of Violence in Oaxaca." Rounding out the bi-monthly tabloid, along with ARA's Four Points of Unity, are a piece on the history and future of ARA-LA/PART, "Fighting Fascism for Two Decades," (as 2007 marks the 20th anniversary of the group and the 20th year of publication for 'Turning the Tide') and a report on the founding of the "White Panther Organization," working in tandem with and under the leadership of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter. The issue also includes the call for "Direct Action to Rebuild New Orleans: Home for the Holidays," from the People's Hurricane Relief Fund, Common Ground Relief, and other organizations. Sample copies of "Turning the Tide" are free. One year (six-issue) subscriptions are $16, payable to Michael Novick. 2007 marks the 20th year of publication of this grassroots anti-racist, anti-imperialist publication without corporate, partisan or government grants or subsidies. Write to ARA-LA/PART, PO Box 1055, Culver City CA 90232, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 310-495-0299. Turning the Tide is free to prisoners, as it has always been, and is now also free to active-duty military. 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