ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 102

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Our upcoming issue on authoritarian neoliberalism, “State of Control”, features contributions by Laurie Calhoun, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and many more.
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A perfect institutional storm is brewing in Italy

Changes to the constitution and the new electoral law in Italy are likely to play into the hands of the government and gag parliamentary opposition.
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Is America ready for a municipalist movement?

In the era of Trump, we will need to consolidate counter-power via participatory democracy and economic self-management at the local level.
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Standing Rock: the story of a heroic resistance

For nearly seven months, indigenous water protectors have been leading a heroic resistance to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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The power of the movements facing Trump

Behind the protests there must be a web of relations that extend both intersectionally and internationally to establish alliances with movements elsewhere.
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The chilling powers that Trump will inherit

What will Trump do with his presidential authority and his access to history’s most powerful military and its most frightening surveillance apparatus?
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Trump’s victory speaks to a crumbling liberal order

Only a reinvigorated left and radical-democratic movements can clear away the ruins of the political establishment and defeat the proto-fascist right.
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HDP arrests: on the road to dictatorship in Turkey

In the absence of concerted international pressure on Turkey to rein in Erdogan’s authoritarianism, the only plausible outcome is further violence.
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Antifascism in the era of Trump

The threat of fascism is real. To turn the tide, the left needs a strategy to transform popular outrage into a potent challenge to the capitalist system.
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Burnt homes and broken promises: the Jungle evicted

Chaos and confusion prevail as the autonomous migrant camp in Calais is being cleared, but few have any doubts that before long new Jungles will arise.
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