Reflections On A Revolution

Blockupy Frankfurt: taking the struggle to the next level

Tens of thousands descend upon the continent's financial capital for one of the most anticipated pan-European demonstrations since the G8 in Genoa.
15M: a year on, the struggle of the indignados continues

Anniversary of 15-M movement marked by deepening crisis, massive bank bailout and fears of eurozone break-up. The indignation only grows stronger.
ROAR presents: #12M — The Sun Rises Once More (video)

A year since we first took the square, the global crisis has only deepened. But in Madrid, on May 12, the sun rose once again. Let it shine forever more.
12M: Barcelona once again becomes a revolutionary hub

With the re-occupation of Plaça Catalunya, the movement in Barcelona once again finds itself on the front-line of a Global Spring of resistance.
Indignados take back square on movement’s anniversary

Hundreds of thousands flock into Puerta del Sol as part of a global day of action to commemorate the first anniversary of the 15-M movement.
The meaning and necessity of revolution in the 21st century

The global day of action on May 12 will mark the resurgence of our resistance. But what is the way forward for our movement in these times of crisis?
Why Hollande won’t make a big difference for Europe

If the French Socialist candidate is to do anything for the continent, it will be to legitimize an inherently unstable and profoundly unjust European capitalism.
Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody.
Felip Puig: the psychopath who keeps Barcelona on lock-down

With Barcelona on lock-down over a European Central Bank meeting, the Minister of the Interior of Catalonia is making a name for himself as a regional tyrant.
Occupy May Day: the march on Wall Street — in pictures

Tens of thousands descended upon Manhattan this May Day to join the first nationwide wildcat strike in US history. Dozens were arrested by police.
Mayhem 2012: gearing up for a global spring of discontent

In May, the 99 percent will open up new avenues of resistance as activists around the world gear up for the intensification of popular protest and direct action.
Oblivion: manifesto for the OVNI festival in Barcelona

From May 8 till 13, OVNI organizes its 2012 festival with film screenings, debates and interventions. This year, the Commune and the Mahabharata take center stage.
Blockupy Frankfurt: European mobilization on May 16-19

This May, the squares will explode in a frenzy of popular resistance against the diktat of finance capital -- and Frankfurt will be one of our key battlegrounds.
There is an alternative: participatory economics

In this exclusive interview, Michael Albert -- co-founder of Znet -- reflects on the vision of participatory economics, and how it could take us beyond capitalism.
Why the Israeli state is terrified of peaceful protest

The clubbing of a Danish protester and the blocking of 1,500 'Flytilla' activists is a direct admission of the illegitimacy of the occupation.

Hundreds of thousands expected to protest in UK

by Jerome Roos March 26, 2011 News

Police braced for high numbers in London with 800 coaches and at least 10 trains chartered from around the country.

George Monbiot: “Coal Will Kill Millions of Times More People than Nuclear”

by Jerome Roos March 16, 2011 Environment & Energy

Leading UK environmentalist launches desperate plea to fellow Greens not to make “unjustifiable leap” and abandon low-carbon nuclear power over the Fukushima emergency.

Ulrich Beck on Nuclear Power and Risk

by Jerome Roos March 15, 2011 Environment & Energy

In 2008, Ulrich Beck wrote in the Guardian that nuclear power should not be seen a “green panacea” but as a “reckless gamble,” and warned the world that we are being urged “to climb into an aircraft for which a landing strip has not yet been built.”

Man vs. Nature in the Nuclear Age

by Jerome Roos March 15, 2011 Environment & Energy

The triple tragedy that is unfolding in Japan has starkly revealed a major contradiction in man’s relationship to nature under the conditions of late modernity. Stumbling along in ‘collective blindness’, humanity continues to live at the mercy of risks that we will never fully understand.

Political Fallout of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Reaches Europe

by Jerome Roos March 15, 2011 Environment & Energy

While Japanese workers are furiously trying to stave off a nuclear meltdown, the political fallout has already reached European shores — in a very big way.

European Debt Crisis? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!

by Jerome Roos March 13, 2011 Capitalism & Crisis

In the wake of the Greek and Irish crises last year, analysts predicted that the collapse of the eurozone might become the big story of 2011. But while our neighbors in North Africa and the Middle East have burst into full-blown revolution, all appears to be quiet on the Western front. Or does it?

The Arab Uprisings and Europe’s Energy Future

by Jerome Roos March 10, 2011 Environment & Energy

The democratic revolutions raging through Europe’s backyard once again raise the question of our addiction to oil and our pandering to the region’s resource-rich dictators.

Europe in Crisis, Part III: The German Engine

by Jerome Roos March 10, 2011 Capitalism & Crisis

As the dark clouds of austerity amass over the European continent, the EU’s economic powerhouse — Germany — still finds itself standing tall in the eye of the storm. But while the German economy ploughs on, concerns in Europe are rising about the country’s growing influence within the Union, as well as the increasingly isolationist [...]

An Apologist for Tyranny: Benjamin Barber on Gaddafi

by Jerome Roos March 8, 2011 Intellectuals & Ideology

In an unsettling new interview, Benjamin Barber — the leading Western academic who served as an advisor to Colonel Gaddafi and his PR machine — unwittingly echoes the deceitful and paranoid ramblings of the Brother Leader and his son Saif al-Islam.

LSE Director Quits over Gaddafi Ties

by Jerome Roos March 4, 2011 Intellectuals & Ideology

After 11 days of one reputation-wrecking embarrassment after another, the embattled director of the Libyan London School of Economics, Sir Howard Davies, has finally stepped down over his emphatic toadying to the Gaddafi regime.