ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 13

The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation

Anti-Roma racism remains pervasive across Europe. It is time to develop a common political agenda for the unification and collective liberation of the Roma.

Can East African workers overcome cooptation and suppression?

Are radical worker struggles, which waned as a result of protracted government efforts to infiltrate and co-opt organized labor, making a comeback in East Africa?

​The re-birth of the left in the post-socialist Balkans

A new Balkan left is struggling against the post-socialist predicament, the disasters of capitalist restoration and the chronic crises that plague the European periphery.

Economic Update: The Challenge of Progressive Unionism

A weekly show focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life and alternative ways to organize our economy and politics, with Prof. Richard D. Wolff.

The Laura Flanders Show: Gender Justice Requires More Than Money

Weekly in-depth interviews with forward-thinking people in the worlds of arts, entrepreneurship and politics with Laura Flanders.

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Billionaire Class’ Ruling Ideas

A bimonthly podcast hosted by Professor David Harvey that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens.

Social catastrophe and kleptocracy feed the fires in South Africa

Triggered by the imprisonment of ex-president Zuma, last week’s riots compounded the legitimation crisis of the ANC and exposed the weakness of the left.

Celebrating the Rojava Revolution: A Reading List

July 19 marks the anniversary of the start of the Rojava Revolution. Here’s a selection of ROAR’s coverage over the past years of this historic struggle for autonomy in northeastern Syria.

Fighting fossil fascism for an eco-communist future

In their new book, Andreas Malm and The Zetkin Collective trace the contours of an emerging regime of fossil fascism across Europe and the Americas.

Dying to be regularized: migrants on hunger strike

For the past 50 days, nearly 500 undocumented migrants have been on hunger strike in the Belgian capital of Brussels, demanding to be regularized.