ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 78

Can Barcelona rekindle its radical imagination?

Barcelona En Comú narrowly lost the popular vote, and possibly the city government. But there is much more to life than governance.

“If you are not cowards, kill me!” — Louise Michel’s defense

From the barricades of the Paris Commune to anti-colonial resistance in the South Pacific, Louise Michel was one of the most important revolutionaries of the 19th century.

“To defend nature, we must organize”

As part of the global “Fridays for Future” day of action, students in Rojava organized a demonstration and cleaned up the streets of their city.

Economic Update: Living in a Socialist Economy

In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff covers the US college admissions scandal, the relation between lobbyists and inequality, and the teachers’ strike in the Carolina’s.

It’s never really about the bread

Corporate media often depicts major social upheavals as single-issue affairs — to see how movements and struggles connect we need to look beyond the headlines.

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Ep.15

Prof. Harvey talks about how capital came to power, the brutality and the violence with which capital came to be, and what it is.

Economic Update: Social Movement for Economic Democracy

In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff covers corporate tax-avoidance, inequality in both France and the US, and the surge in worker militancy and unity in the US.

Remembering as resistance: decolonizing Bolivian history

Bolivian Indigenous movements use oral history and memory to challenge the elites’ version of history and build their own narratives of the Andean past.

Capitalists fear the Green New Deal — and for good reason

US liberals and conservatives wrongly view the Green New Deal as communism-in-disguise, but its radicalizing potential might justify their fears nonetheless.

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Ep.14

Prof. Harvey discusses how consumers’ choices, even how they will spend their leisure time, are increasingly influenced by capitalists.