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https://roarmag.org/2015/07/social-media-organization-movements
Protestor using social media during the Gezi protests in Turkey, 2013. Social media and movements: is the love affair really over? July 31, 2015. Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations. Can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics? When I started my PhD in 2011 there was a strong feeling that radical politics was changing. On the one hand, there was more of it. The Arab Spring, the. Social media was increasingly seen as an essential element...
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https://roarmag.org/2014/05/subcomandante-galeano-between-light-shadow
Between Light and Shadow: Marcos’ last words. May 28, 2014. Here is the English translation of Subcomandante Marcos’ last public statement: “We think it is necessary for one of us to die so that Galeano lives.”. This communiqué was released by the EZLN General Command on May 25, 2014, and just translated into English for Enlace Zapatista. By Leonidas Oikonomakis. All photos were taken at La Realidad, and are courtesy of our compañer@s from Cooperativa de Medios. And the autonomous media of Chiapas. Perha...
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https://roarmag.org/2014/08/pkk-kurdish-struggle-autonomy
The new PKK: unleashing a social revolution in Kurdistan. August 17, 2014. As the prospect of Kurdish independence becomes ever more imminent, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party transforms itself into a force for radical democracy. Increasingly few obstacles remain to. Kurdish independence in northern Iraq. Turkey and Israel have pledged support while Syria and Iraq’s hands are tied by the rapid advances of the Islamic State (formerly ISIS). The Kurdish struggle, however, is anything but narrowly nationalistic...
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https://roarmag.org/2015/08/eurozone-third-bailout-greece-democracy
The Eurozone’s Pyrrhic victory over Greece. August 11, 2015. The Eurozone has imposed a Carthaginian peace upon the Greeks, but the lessons of King Pyrrhus loom large: one more such victory would utterly undo it. This article was originally written for teleSUR English. Some left intellectuals both inside Greece and abroad still try to somehow spin this farcical outcome into some kind of revolutionary Disney tale. Slavoj Žižek, for one, is already passing off. The catastrophic tax hikes demanded by the cr...
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https://roarmag.org/2014/09/syriza-government-autonomous-movements
SYRIZA rising: what’s next for the movements in Greece? September 30, 2014. A left-wing government may provide breathing space to the movements, but it can also accelerate their demobilization and assimilation by state power. For us the content of the revolutionary project is for people to become capable of taking social matters in their hands, and the only means for them to attain this capability is to gradually take social matters in their hands more and more. Left-Wing Bureaucracy and the State. A fir...
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https://roarmag.org/2013/12/zapatistas-latin-american-movements
Zapatismo and the Latin American cycle of struggles. December 31, 2013. Twenty years after their 1994 uprising, the Zapatistas’ project of autonomy and horizontality has come to define a continent-wide cycle of struggles. Translated from the Spanish original. By Tamara van der Putten. For the past twenty years since the Zapatista uprising on January 1st, 1994, social movements in Latin America have championed one of the most intense and extensive cycles of struggle in the world. Ever since the 1989.
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https://roarmag.org/2013/06/from-tahrir-and-rio-to-taksim-the-smell-of-teargas
From Taksim and Rio to Tahrir, the smell of teargas. June 29, 2013. From Taksim to Tahrir, from Bulgaria to Brazil, we fight the same struggle against oppressive state structures that benefit only a tiny wealthy elite. To you at whose side we struggle,. We want the downfall of the System. Sign up for our Newsletter. The latest content in your inbox. Help sustain ROAR Magazine. Print issues released quarterly. Comrades from Cairo is a group of Cairo-based Egyptian revolutionaries. July 2, 2013. Four full-...
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https://roarmag.org/2012/07/police-crackdown-as-striking-miners-march-on-madrid
Police crackdown as striking miners march on Madrid. July 12, 2012. Dozens injured as riot police attack striking miners and their sympathizers in Madrid while Spanish government announces further austerity measures. The crisis of European capitalism took a major turn for the worse on Wednesday as the Spanish government made a radical U-turn. On the ground and a young child (below) with a massive bruise from a rubber bullet. One particularly disturbing image. Perhaps Wednesday’s violent clashes are...
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https://roarmag.org/2013/10/african-indigenous-struggle-decolonization
Building connections across decolonization struggles. October 29, 2013. Indigenous and Afrikan activists have much to gain from joining forces. Making demands on the state won’t do. To win, we must struggle for autonomy. On October, 4, 2013 Herman Wallace, an Afrikan Freedom Fighter, died in the United States after being held in solitary confinement for 42 years. On October 7, 2013, Indigenous groups joined in an international day of action. The fundamental change that is needed to keep the status quo fr...
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https://roarmag.org/2015/05/why-does-greece-not-simply-default
Healthcare workers march in Athens, 20/05/2015. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki. Why does Greece not simply get it over with and default? May 21, 2015. History has shown that defaulting countries tend to fall harder but recover faster. So why does Greece’s left-led government not simply get it over with? This article was originally written for teleSUR English. As the Greek debt drama finally comes to a head. Why do they care about their creditors in the first place? With such unilateral moratoriums. In fact...
