ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 107

‘A gift from God’: Erdoğan will strike back with an iron fist

Whoever was behind the failed coup attempt, one thing seems clear: Erdogan will use it as a pretext to centralize and consolidate even more power.
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Post-Brexit Britain: navigating the culture war

To build power in post-Brexit Britain, the left needs to bring the young, urban middle class and the rural working class together in an explosive alliance.
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Portland fast-food workers fighting for their $15

The Burgerville Worker Union is one of many local unions formed across the US that have become the face of twenty-first century grassroots labor organizing.
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Chiapas health workers strike against reforms

Workers of the Chiapas Health Jurisdiction have been on strike for one month, in protest against the structural reforms the government intends to pass.
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Defeating fear: lessons from Mexico’s housing movement

Los Panchos has taken back land and collectively built thousands of homes since the late-1980s. What could Global North movements learn from its successes?
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Istanbul attacks expose Turkey’s misplaced priorities

Turkish authorities have long persisted Kurdish militants pose the most serious threat to the national security, but IS’ latest attacks proof otherwise.
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Kurdish town destroyed after months of fighting

People from Yüksekova have started to return to their homes after Turkish authorities recently lifted the curfew, but what they find is a city in ruins.
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#Brexit confirms: the neoliberal center cannot hold

The post-Brexit pandemonium has less to do with Britain’s relationship to Europe than it has with elites losing control over the monsters they have created.
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Towards a Post-Work Society

The politics of time offers a response to the crisis of work, inviting us to talk about the conditions for freedom and the kind of society we want to live in.
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Basic Income and the Future of Work

There is no such thing as the dignity of work. It is not the right to employment but a guaranteed material existence that gives dignity to human life.
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