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Triggered by the imprisonment of ex-president Zuma, last week’s riots compounded the legitimation crisis of the ANC and exposed the weakness of the [...]
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In their new book, Andreas Malm and The Zetkin Collective trace the contours of an emerging regime of fossil fascism across Europe and the [...]
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As institutions like the police and border patrol become increasingly militarized, anti-militarism needs to become a cornerstone of social movements [...]
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In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need bold and imaginative thinking — it is time to embrace the utopianism that is implicit to the Marxist [...]
Introducing a new borders bill that criminalizes informal immigration to the UK, Home Secretary Patel is dog whistling to right-wing, anti-migrant [...]
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Amazon creates a collective identity that is firmly rooted in neoliberal ideals. To challenge it, unions and social movements must focus on building the [...]
Political theorist Rodrigo Nunes provides a new approach to the problems of power and organization to help confront climate catastrophe. [...]
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The internet has given rise to new forms of far-right organizing. To be effective, anti-fascists must develop strategies to contend with [...]
Author A.M. Gittlitz reflects on the legacy of Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas, its relevance for revolutionary politics today and for a cosmic socialism [...]
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Two new campaigns aim to raise awareness about illegal pushbacks on Europe’s borders and call for the abolition of the EU’s border agency [...]
The G7 is prolonging the pandemic. The Summit for Vaccine Internationalism is organizing to end [...]
In response to Turkey’s invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan, an international peace delegation traveled to the region in solidarity and to demand an end to the [...]
Tunisian youths are outraged and exasperated. Accounts of their protests tend to focus on the riots, while failing to identify the underlying [...]
To put a halt to the Canadian government’s imperialist and neoliberal agenda, we need to critically assess its misleading “progressive” [...]
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Allies of the Kurdish people gather in Erbil today to call for solidarity in defense of Kurdistan against Erdoğan’s [...]
Brazil’s Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens has been fighting for decades against the privatization of water and for popular control over natural [...]
In his new book, Max Ajl makes the case for putting agriculture and the Third World’s struggles for self-determination at the heart of environmental [...]
US policing has never been limited to the national sphere — when we demand to defund the police, this includes ending the global policing powers of the [...]
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Israel’s arms and security industry forms an intrinsic part of its apartheid regime and exports the politics and methodology of occupation [...]
The system is the state, a complex mechanism that includes government, capitalism, patriarchy and imperialism. It will not go away until we force it [...]
A new website — disruptnow.org — curates contemporary and historical documents on the history, present and future of global [...]
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LATU builds toward a future without rent by addressing immediate needs, building power and transforming the political consciousness of tenants in [...]
For four years, municipalists held power in cities across Spain. Their successes and setbacks hold important lessons for municipalist activists and organizers [...]
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The unique temporality of Ramadan incentivized the Palestinian uprising that entangled every aspect of Israeli life in the struggle for a liberated [...]
As calls for abolition grow louder, the queer and women of color-led movement for transformative justice offers a glimpse of a future beyond [...]
Revising the history of the Commune from the Americas transforms our geopolitical outlook and the manner in which we articulate the commune’s political [...]
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. [...]
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Mbembe and Táíwò discuss coercive state power from the “Code Noir” to “algorithmic racism” and the universal struggle for racial and ecological [...]
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In the face of environmental collapse, deepening inequalities and capitalism in crisis, resisting violence requires challenging its colonial [...]
Zionism has always sought to both erase and instrumentalize Palestinians. That dual aim lies at the heart of the events of the past several [...]
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 [...]
Despite the heroic efforts of the Communards, the iconic barricades built in the streets of Paris were not enough to keep the Versaillese army from conquering the city and massacring the revolutionaries. [...]
Among the many reflections on the Commune, voices of the Communards themselves are often strangely absent. How did they remember this unique revolutionary [...]
From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia’s general strike and Zapatismo: militant journalist Raúl Zibechi reflects on the state of Latin America [...]
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A delegation of the Zapatistas is sailing for Europe. Not to conquer, but to connect and to join hands with other insurgents and join them in [...]
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For 73 years, Palestinians have borne the brunt of Israel’s settler colonial apartheid regime. Theirs is a struggle for freedom and rights. It is as simple as [...]
Workers’ inquiries and credible strike threats are essential tactics for tipping the balance of class power back in workers’ [...]
The deadly violence by police and paramilitary groups against protesters in Colombia is made possible by the military aid of the government’s Western [...]
In their new books, Benanav and Smith argue that the crisis of work is not caused by automation, but rather by the stagnation of the global capitalist [...]
The state’s brutal response to a one-day general strike has sparked weeks of protests in Colombia, resulting in dozens of deaths. The time for dialogue is [...]
After months of preparations, a delegation of the Zapatistas has set sail from Mexico towards Europe. The “reversed conquest” has well and truly [...]
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In a historic vote, student workers at Columbia University reclaim their union from the bureaucrats, reversing a trend of top-down union [...]
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The US is launching a New Cold War against Russia and China in an attempt to deflect our attention from the escalating crisis of global [...]
A racist incident at SOAS University of London has opened new conversations about Black and South Asian solidarity and the trouble with political [...]
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We do not know how to stop the planetary destruction caused by capital — but by asking the right questions we can find our way forward [...]
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Amidst calls for militarized state “protection,” it is urgent we expand the concept of anti-Asian violence towards a systemic and global diagnosis of [...]
Every year, Russian activists gather in Helsinki, continuing a long tradition in which the city has served as a safe haven for Russian [...]
The decolonization of Israel requires the dismantling of Zionist settler colonialism as an exclusive and controlling ideology while restoring Palestinian [...]
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The Red Deal is a manifesto and movement — borne of Indigenous resistance and decolonial struggle — to liberate all peoples and save our [...]
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After the fall of the Paris Commune, thousands of Communards fled to Britain where they linked their revolutionary struggle to the long history of British [...]
With Trump out of the White House, the far right have a lost a powerful ally — but the threat of fascist violence and white racialism is far from [...]
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The metaphors that attempt to render Palestine complicated obscure the simple brutality of Zionist [...]
A delegation of the EZLN has started preparations for their upcoming trip to Europe. Traveling by boat, the Zapatistas are expected to arrive in [...]
The lobbying and state-directed demands of climate NGOs are hurting the UK’s climate movement. We need to organize our struggle at a distance from the [...]
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The UK’s new police and crime bill is a clear attack on the basic right to protest and a next step in the democratic backsliding of the [...]
The Progressive International observation delegation returns to Ecuador to observe the most important elections in a [...]
This is the story of the radical and feminist wave of Swedish comic art and [...]
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At the age of 20, Dmitrieff founded and led the Union des femmes, the foremost radical feminist and socialist organization that emerged during the [...]
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A decade after the 2011 Revolution, a new generation of Tunisians is back on the streets as a broad, intersectional movement united through grassroots [...]
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A global police state is emerging in response to poor and working class uprisings around the world; William I. Robinson’s new book reveals its [...]
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Whitman’s salute to the Paris Commune is a valuable lesson in international solidarity, but some of his political ideals caution against embracing him [...]
PM Ardern’s government has been hailed as “the most progressive in the world,” but the LOTR saga reveals its unwillingness to take on corporate [...]
The heavily militarized response to the pandemic and endemic police violence has exacerbated old conflicts within Greek society — and many have had [...]
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The violence faced by Asian migrant and sex workers is predicated by colonialism, militarism and the border — and policing is part of the [...]
The Progressive International’s platform, Art of Internationalism, explores the role of art and culture in imagining and shaping 21st century [...]
The legacy of the Paris Commune and its dreams of radical social change resonate through time, inspiring revolutionary thinkers and activists to this [...]
The experience of Paris Commune had a profound impact on the thinking of Élisée Reclus and inspired him to develop his extensive philosophy of [...]
The Commune of 1871 was never truly vanquished — its political imaginary lived on and is today being liberated and revived in a new cycle of [...]
The memory of the Paris Commune in China was used to justify political purges, but it also inspired the founding of communes from Beijing to [...]
On the dawn of March 18, Paris arose to the thunder-burst of “Vive la Commune!” What is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois [...]
In 1891, on the 20th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Engels put together a new edition of “The Civil War in France,” emphasizing its historical [...]
Bakunin did not unreservedly praise everything done by the Commune, and did not hesitate to point out some of its major mistakes, but in contrast to some of his colleagues, he made allowances for its [...]
The Commune of Paris was doomed to perish, but by its eminently popular character it began a new series of revolutions and by its ideas it was the forerunner of the social [...]
Tearing down the Vendôme Column was a highly symbolic act uniting the people against the ruler; of democracy against tyranny; of the Commune against the [...]
Erected in honor of Napoleon’s victories and made out of the bronze captured from enemy guns and, the Vendôme Column was for the Commune “a symbol of brutal force and false [...]
Thiers breaks off the negotiations for a hostage exchange, proposed by Commune, of the Archbishop of Paris and a whole number of other priests, for [...]
The Manifesto presents a powerful vision of the role the Commune can play in bringing about a “new era of experimental, positive, scientific [...]
British journalist Bax, a sympathizer of the Commune, offers a critical note to the widely lauded Manifesto, calling it “ill-timed and not to the [...]
The artists of Paris outlined a revolutionary new approach to art, based on the core idea that art should be at the heart of society and accessible to [...]
The Commune announces the postponement of all debt obligations for three years and abolition of interest on [...]
The capture of Louis Auguste Blanqui, “the official father of the Commune,” is a blow to the Communards, who will seek to negotiate a hostage-exchange to secure his [...]
Members of the 137th battalion of the National Guard took the guillotine, broke it into pieces and burned in a public square amidst a large crowd of [...]
Only days after the declaration of the Commune, the French Army begins its sieges of Paris. The attacks find the Communards unprepared and undecided how to [...]
At the start of April the Versaillais launched their attack against Paris. It would mark the start of weeks of bombardments and sporadic attacks upon the [...]
The inaugural speech of Charles Beslay, President of the Commune, in which he outlines his vision of the Commune as the foundation for the universal [...]
The results of the elections are announced. The red flag is hoisted from the roof of the Hôtel de Ville. The members of the Commune are introduced. [...]
British journalist E.A. Vizetelly’s somewhat dismissive account of the day the Paris Commune was elected, offering a critical outsider’s [...]
Pierre Vésinier, secretary of the Commune, shares a spirited account of the day the Commune was elected, calling it “a great and peaceable [...]
The Central Committee fails to pursue the government troops out of Paris. Local mayors try to regain control over Hôtel de Ville. Public services are [...]
Syrian writer and political dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh speaks about the hopes of the revolution, the tragedy of the war and the lessons from a life of [...]
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Heavy fighting in the streets of Paris. French troops refuse orders to open fire on unarmed citizens and turn on their officers. Fighting continues throughout the day. [...]
Adolphe Thiers sends government troops into Paris in an attempt to disarm the National Guard. Many soldiers refuse their orders and side with the Parisians. [...]
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The CHAZ was imperfect, but we can learn from its mistakes to inform our response to the catastrophes created by capitalism and the state that loom on the [...]
Pain and fear have multiple political possibilities. They can drag people down, or they can catalyze much-needed change, ultimately improving the [...]
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In light of rising nationalism and a planetary ecological crisis fomented by global capitalism, Rosa Luxemburg’s internationalist ethos is more relevant than [...]
American “Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits through their control over business, labor, social media and entertainment in the Global [...]
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Despite her efforts to facilitate a peaceful outcome, the Red Army’s ruthless repression of the rebellion led to Goldman’s definite break with the [...]
The anarchist roots of the Kronstadt Rebellion have long been denied, but the plurality of anti-Bolshevik resistance in Soviet Russia harbors important lessons for movements [...]
An online symposium hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of her [...]
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The National Council of Elders recounts the many decades of struggle for social justice and civil rights, sharing their experiences with a new generation of [...]
As the G20 meet, the Progressive International’s Debt Justice group calls for a radical break with extraction and austerity — and proposes a new system in its [...]
Presidential elections, a constitutional reform process and rising social tensions: 2021 is shaping up to be a critical year that will define Chile’s [...]
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The undemocratic appointment of a party loyalist as rector at a prominent university in Turkey is fiercely resisted by its student body and [...]
Faced with an epidemic of femicides and government inaction, Mexican feminists are turning to increasingly radical tactics in their collective quest for [...]
Despite his opposition to Trump’s Wall, Biden’s close links with the border security industry suggests that the militarization of the US border will [...]
India’s farmers are waging a historical struggle against biopiracy, eco-fascism and neoliberal dispossession. Is land-commoning the answer to a transformative [...]
Noura Erakat, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Roger Waters and Yanis Varoufakis discuss America after Trump. Does the end of Trump marks the end of trumpism? What next for the movement for social justice in the USA and abroad? [...]
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A transnational network of radical feminist collectives is calling on all those who share their vision and demands to join the essential strike on March [...]
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Seeing footage of widespread protests and strikes in the years prior to 2011 helped Egyptians to overcome their fears of the regime and start a [...]
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In his preface to Kropotkin’s “Words of a Rebel,” Elisée Reclus is inspired by the writings of his friend and argues to “Let each man remain his own [...]
Kropotkin’s theory of mutual aid remains cogent as ever, demonstrating the capacity for revolutionary change even in the harshest, most repressive [...]
Amidst the months-long, farmer-led protests on the outskirts of Delhi, the foundations of a more democratic and anti-corporate India are being [...]
Is the online rebellion of small investors a sign of a wider revolt against capitalism, or financialization in a new [...]
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It is time for those who aspire to love — which is to say everyone everywhere — to finally see the communism of their aspiration. [...]
Calls to “defund the police” are not an appeal on politicians to act, but rather a call to build our collective power as a first step on the road to [...]
In January, 2020, ahead of the municipal elections, Gilets Jaunes from all over France gathered in the town of Commercy for an “Assembly of [...]
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Abolitionism is about more than dismantling prisons. It is also about building a world with universal access to safety, self-determination, freedom and [...]
In 2015, the PUCARL Collective in Vercruz, Mexico, booked a historic victory and successfully halted the construction of a dam that was threatening the entire [...]
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After many years of campaigning, Argentina’s feminist movements booked a historic victory at the end of 2020 when abortion was finally [...]
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While arms sales by Western governments are fueling the humanitarian disaster in Yemen, movements across the world are mobilizing in [...]
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In celebration of Murray Bookchin’s birth centenary, his daughter Debbie is joined by a number of his former friends, students and fellow travellers to honor his memory and reflect on his revolutionary [...]
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A discussion with Stefania Maurizi, Brian Eno, Roger Waters, Yanis Varoufakis, Ken Loach and Frank Barat about the Assange trial and what it means for the future of [...]
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Rather than relying on the state and social media platforms to take on Trump and his supporters, anti-fascists need to build their own strength to do [...]
The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students [...]
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A selection of ROAR’s most-read essays, highlighting the key themes behind the year’s many important struggles and providing perspectives on the fights still to [...]
By securing land and building infrastructure that increases our collective self-sufficiency, we can create worlds on the periphery of the capitalist [...]
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Humanity’s failure to collectively respond to the pandemic presents us with a fast motion view of our inability to combat the ongoing climate [...]
