ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 18

Street Vendors United: Spain’s Manteros Union

This is the story of Spain’s first street vendor union and its creative solidarity in the face of racism, police harassment and COVID-19.

The Laura Flanders Show: The Future of Energy is Indigenous

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

Becoming Black: a conversation with Olúfémi Táíwò and Achille Mbembe

Mbembe and Táíwò discuss coercive state power from the “Code Noir” to “algorithmic racism” and the universal struggle for racial and ecological justice.

Economic Update: Rise and Fall of Labor and Capitalism

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.

Resisting the everyday violence of colonial extractivism

In the face of environmental collapse, deepening inequalities and capitalism in crisis, resisting violence requires challenging its colonial constructions.

​A history of erasure and instrumentality in Palestine

Zionism has always sought to both erase and instrumentalize Palestinians. That dual aim lies at the heart of the events of the past several weeks.

May 26 – The end of the Commune is near

The final days of the Commune. The canon of the Versaillais army are battering barricades and buildings alike. Communards die by the hundreds defending the barricades to their last breaths.

May 22 — Barricades of the Commune

Despite the heroic efforts of the Communards, the iconic barricades built in the streets of Paris were not enough to keep the Versailles army from conquering the city and massacring the revolutionaries.

​The many afterlives of the Paris Commune

Among the many reflections on the Commune, voices of the Communards themselves are often strangely absent. How did they remember this unique revolutionary episode?

State, power and society in Latin America: an interview with Raúl Zibechi

From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia’s general strike and Zapatismo: militant journalist Raúl Zibechi reflects on the state of Latin America today.