ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 104

Defeating the Global Bankocracy

Dethroning the financial aristocracy will require more than moral outrage and tinkering at the margins. We need to push for deep, structural change.
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The Potential of Debtors’ Unions

Aiming to build collective power in an age of financial absolutism, the Debt Collective is piloting a new kind of organization: the debtors’ union.
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The “Golden Noose” of Global Finance

By revealing the social and political nature of financial markets, debt audits could become an important weapon in the arsenal of debtors’ movements.
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The Debts of the American Empire — Real and Imagined

From Chicago to Puerto Rico to San Francisco, debt is a terrain of struggle within and against America’s racialized empire of indifference.
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The Life and Times of the 1 Percent

Dominant ownership, multiple income streams and a thoroughly skewed money system provide those at the top of the wealth pyramid with incredible power.
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The 1 Percent Under Siege?

By exposing the sheer scale of offshore finance, the Panama Papers have re-fuelled global resentment towards tax-avoiding elites. Are the rich immoral?
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The Rise of the American Bondholding Class

The concentration of the US public debt in the hands of the 1 percent has contributed to inequality and presents a fundamental threat to democracy.
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Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence

Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.
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The Contradictions of Finance

After the financial crisis, the long-term fate of Wall Street now hinges on the context of global capitalism and the emerging popular struggles against it.
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The Financial Aristocracy

“The first rule of Finance Capital is: You do not talk about Finance Capital.”
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