by Marina Sitrin/ROAR “To celebrate and imagine together.” “To look at each other and smile.” “No parties, no barriers, no labels.” “Take squares and rediscover hope.” — Quotes taken from interviews by the Nuit Debout TV group Thousands gather every evening in the Place de la République, and […]
by Gabriel Cavagionni/Guest Love and Rage is publishing this as part of our series chronicling the rise of the far right, proto-fascist groups and fascism in general around the world. From the beginning of fascism in Italy to Nazism in Germany, fascism has affected Europe and changed the […]
by Ikemba Kuti/First of May Anarchist Alliance Jamar Clark On November 15th, 2015, police executed Jamar Clark in North Minneapolis, MN. Several witnesses claim that Mr. Clark was handcuffed and on the ground when he was shot in the head. Following the execution, an occupation of the 4th […]
by Soapy/Libcom The 2016 election has highlighted deep ideological divides across the country and presented some very encouraging signs for communists. The media script for the 2016 primaries featured Hillary Clinton as a lock for the Democrats while Republican voters chose between party hacks with identical positions on […]
by John Pilger/Telesur I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask,”Where is that?” If I Editoffer a clue by referring to”Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit. […]
by Alex Kemman/ROAR Magazine Many Kurdish towns across Turkey lie in ruin, but Yüksekova — a bulwark of the PKK — has so far escaped destruction. Still the war is always present. Egid called me today to tell me that the situation in his hometown is rapidly deteriorating. […]
by New York Immigration Coalition/Press Releases Coalition Calls on New York State Senate to Vote against Divisive and Dangerous Bill New York, NY – The New York Immigration Coalition has learned that New York State Senator Terrence Murphy introduced a bill that would require residents of New York […]
by Wayne Price/Anarcho-Syndicalist Review In recent decades, there have been efforts to “rehabilitate” the U.S. Communist Party (CP) as an historical model for the Left. Anti-authoritarian socialists and anarchists find this troubling. While the CP did some good things it also did some very bad things. A brief […]
by Opal Tometi/ROAR Magazine In 1992, the world witnessed African American Rodney King being brutally beaten by Los Angeles policemen. In 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Black immigrant from Guinea, was shot 19 times by five New York City policemen outside his apartment. Sean Bell was shot to […]
by Matt Lester/Guest My political awareness is shaped by what happened to my Grandfather. Of course, there are other things. But it is high on the list. It filters my world-view. Growing up in Germany during the rise of the Nazis, fleeing to a Jewish community in Shanghai, […]