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Municipalist syndicalism: from the workplace to the community
22nd December 2019Unions controlled by the rank-and-file can serve as a dual power bridgehead towards the democratization of cities, states and capital. Photo: Pixabay
Cities against the wall
21st July 2017The article analyses whether and how, two years into the first mandate, Spain’s Cities of Change jump from the streets to the institutions has helped advance the demands of the social movements from which these candidacies derived their legitimacy. Photo: Ann H
The left needs a statewide strategy
28th July 2019For the first time in decades, the Left is on the rise in the United States. This resurgence has primarily been driven forward by local and national struggles. In towns across the country, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters have helped win important victories, such...
Why libertarian municipalism is more needed today than ever before
25th November 2018We can understand almost all of today’s crises to be crises of democracy. Representative ‘democracy’ has turned people from empowered citizens to alienated constituents. Libertarian municipalism, which promotes direct democracy, is an essential tool to regain power at the citizen level and provide solutions to...
Good news from the Brink. The story of Horní Jiřetín, a small North Bohemian town that defied the coal industry
25th June 2020Horní Jiřetín, a small town in the Czech Republic, was set to be wiped off the map and replaced by a brown coal mine. The end of Communist rule and the privatisation of the coal company was not going to change the town’s fate. But...
Bakur rising: democratic autonomy in Kurdistan
21st July 2017In recent years, following the collapse of the peace process between the Turkish state and the Kurdish freedom movement, the struggle for autonomy in the towns and cities of northern Kurdistan, or Bakur, has undergone a significant shift from a non-violent re-organization of social and...
French municipalism(s): From roundabouts to the commune of communes
1st February 2020This piece is an Interview with Camille, spokesperson for the Citizens’ Assembly of Commercy. This platform is an example what democracy can look like when it is not headed by an elite, a demonstration of how self-determined education among the people is capable of bringing...
International database of de-privatised public services
1st January 2020Public Futures is an interactive database, where you can find information on alternative public pathways to privatisation. Basic services like water, energy, health care and education build the foundation for healthy, just and sustainable communities, and all over the world, citizens, public authorities and labour...
Handbook for rebellion
2nd October 2019An Extinction Rebellion Handbook, recently released by Penguin, is a collection of 32 short essays that aims of pushing the message – and the confidence to take action – even further. An accessible text appropriate for introducing the average reader to both the scale of...
Barcelona en Comú: the city as horizon for radical democracy
4th March 2015In 2015, a new cycle of struggles for democratic governance unfolded at the level of the city. One such municipal movement and platform is Barcelona en Comú. Pioneering new ways and words for approaching the city as common(s), Barcelona en Comú opens possibilities for a...
The power of a transformative city
30th September 2017Cities constitute a privileged place to organise collectively and to imagine new ways of living and working together, spaces where bodies and minds interact and where ideas spread quickly and have unparalleled impact. Cities are also able to advance democracy to a greater extent than...