ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 95
November 8, 2017
Organizing tenants in the rentier society
Against the backdrop of a deepening housing crisis, new grassroots organizations are emerging to challenge landlords and governments and to organize tenants.
October 21, 2017
The perils and promise of self-determination
Could Öcalan’s democratic confederalism offer a revolutionary alternative to the stalemated outcomes of the Catalan and Kurdish independence referendums?
October 18, 2017
Ken Loach on Palestine: “don’t be distracted, just tell the truth”
The acclaimed film director responds to recent allegations in The Guardian and New York Times that he gave “spurious legitimacy” to Holocaust denial.
October 16, 2017
Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism
By increasing global competition, the precariousness wrought by financialization has laid the foundations for reactionary authoritarianism around the world.
September 9, 2017
Municipalist syndicalism: organizing the new working class
By adopting a municipalist agenda, the labor movements of the new working class have the power to democratize not just the union, but also the city itself.
July 21, 2017
Municipalism and the Feminization of Politics
Beside turning local institutions into mechanisms of self-governance, municipalism also has the potential to feminize politics in a way that action at the national level does not.
Bakur Rising: Democratic Autonomy in Kurdistan
The Kurdish experiment in radical municipalism obliges us to rethink the issue of state violence and how new worlds can be created as well as defended.
The Right to the City in an Age of Austerity
In Greece, resistance to austerity comprises a mosaic of struggles for a right to the city, conceived as the collective self-determination of everyday life.
Cities Against the Wall
Two years into its governing mandate, how is Spain’s municipalist movement fighting back against the impositions of global capital?
Urban Sanctuary: The Promise of Solidarity Cities
As the sites of a shared lived experience, cities offer a unique opportunity to develop new political subjectivities that move beyond nationality and citizenship.
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