ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy.
This is the story of the movement for housing justice in Berlin — one of Europe’s most vibrant struggles to secure a city for all.
Marcela, an indigenous healer and organizer, reflects on the role of traditional knowledge and medicine in both her personal and collective struggles for liberation.
This is the story of the rise and fall of the alter-globalization movement, and how its legacy shapes radical struggles today.
A group of migrants in Germany are organizing against the inhumane living conditions imposed upon them. They demand good housing for all — regardless of residence status.
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.
Every year, Russian activists gather in Helsinki, continuing a long tradition in which the city has served as a safe haven for Russian revolutionaries.
This is the story of the radical and feminist wave of Swedish comic art and literature.
In 2015, the PUCARL Collective in Veracruz, Mexico, booked a historic victory and successfully halted the construction of a dam that was threatening the entire region.
Before she built her first greenhouse and became an organic farmer, Mercedes never imagined that she would be the sole breadwinner of her family.
Don Andrés, a beekeeper and healer from Coatepec, Mexico has made it his life’s work to protect the endangered pollinators that keep the tropics alive.
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The Maracanã stadium in Rio is not only a space for leisure but, above all, a space of struggle — for education, housing, Indigenous rights and against capital development....
An indigenous community in the highlands of Chiapas is learning about the theory and practice of agroecology to lessen their dependency on pesticides.
In 2015, more than a dozen Kurdish towns in southeastern Turkey declared their autonomy from the state, only to be met by an extremely violent crackdown.
Angelina Lopez Gomez is a potter from Chiapas. She shows her work and home, discusses her commitment to Indigenous traditions and how she learned her rights as a woman.
After an earthquake in late 2017 destroyed their outdoor kitchens, Tehuantepec locals opted to rebuild themselves rather than relying on state support.
At the demise of empire, Britain transformed from a colonial power into a financial one that today is estimated to hide up to half of global offshore wealth.
The Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) campaigns against police surveillance and the regular smearing of activists and groups as “domestic extremists.”
Indigenous locals in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec resist the construction of destructive windfarms on their traditional lands.
Delegates at the fifth gathering of the CNI in Oventic describe their ideologies, mission and struggles — and the Zapatistas throw a party.
Drawing on the story of Ahmed, a Tunisian migrant to Italy, “Scirocco” shows the impact of deportation policies on migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy.
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