ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 17

What exactly is the “system” that we are fighting?

The system is the state, a complex mechanism that includes government, capitalism, patriarchy and imperialism. It will not go away until we force it to.

Documenting the history, present and future of global disruption

A new website — disruptnow.org — curates contemporary and historical documents on the history, present and future of global disruption.

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Birth of Neoliberalism

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

Spadework: A New Grammar of Organization

A podcast dedicated to circulating the practices and mechanisms that make resilient, rewarding and effective organizations and movements.

Toward 100 chapters of the Los Angeles Tenants Union

LATU builds toward a future without rent by addressing immediate needs, building power and transforming the political consciousness of tenants in LA.

What happened to the municipalists in Spain?

For four years, municipalists held power in cities across Spain. Their successes and setbacks hold important lessons for municipalist activists and organizers today.

The Laura Flanders Show: BIPOC Journalists On Covering COVID and Racism

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

On creative disruption: the May uprising in Palestine

The unique temporality of Ramadan incentivized the Palestinian uprising that entangled every aspect of Israeli life in the struggle for a liberated Palestine.

​We keep us safe: the transformative justice movement

As calls for abolition grow louder, the queer and women of color-led movement for transformative justice offers a glimpse of a future beyond policing.

From Zapata to the Zapatistas: Mexico’s “other” Commune

Revising the history of the Commune from the Americas transforms our geopolitical outlook and the manner in which we articulate the commune’s political form.