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New report: no austerity for EU military spending

by ROAR Collective on May 11, 2013

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High levels of military spending played a key role in the unfolding European sovereign debt crisis — and continue to undermine efforts to resolve it.

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Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright

by ROAR Collective on May 10, 2013

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In a grandiose display of Foucauldian irony, one of the greatest anti-capitalist debates of our time has been reduced to an intellectual commodity.

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Drawing inspiration from the Recovered Factories Movement in Argentina, the Vio.Me factory in Greece has begun production under worker self-management.

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A collective of researchers, photographers and filmmakers comes together to launch a powerful new multimedia research project on the crisis in Athens.

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TNI report: using the crisis to entrench neoliberalism

by ROAR Collective on March 19, 2013

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Rather than solving Europe’s crisis, EU institutions are allowing corporate elites to further enrich themselves through a fire sale of state assets.

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Egyptian Winter: what’s left of the revolution?

by ROAR Collective on March 6, 2013

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The latest short documentary in the Global Uprisings series recounts the story of those who struggle against all odds to keep Egypt’s revolution alive.

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Now is the time to overpower the rotten powers that be and build – from below – a real democracy of equality, social justice and freedom in Venezuela.

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Grillo’s Five Star Movement has defended the system

by ROAR Collective on February 28, 2013

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According to the Wu Ming collective, the electoral success of Grillo’s web-based Five Star Movement just covers up the vacuum of Italian social movements.

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The Global Resonance of the Real Democracy Movement

by ROAR Collective on February 18, 2013

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In a new paper, ROAR authors Leonidas Oikonomakis and Jerome Roos recount how the struggle for real democracy resonated with activists around the globe.

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Greek factory produces under workers’ control

by ROAR Collective on February 11, 2013

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Fighting for a world without unemployment or bosses, the Vio.Me. factory in crisis-ridden Greece starts production under democratic workers’ control.