A feminist municipalist manifesto
22 March 2021
In the first post in a series on municipalism and the feminisation of politics, Laura Roth lays out a feminist municipalist manifesto.
Final decision
2 March 2021
We’ve received more than 10 great proposals in spite of the short deadline! Our Minim community has finally decided to fund the following report: Imogen Hamilton Jones and Thomas de Groot – On the (messy) interactions between municipalism and commoning in Amsterdam. Congratulations to the...
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Call for reports
11 February 2021Minim is a municipalist observatory that aims to give voice to the municipalist movement in different parts of the world. In Spring 2020, we released a successful call for a series of funded reports on municipalism in the Global South. We are today announcing a...
Some notes on scale in municipalism
4 February 2021
Vicente Rubio-Pueyo reflects on questions of municipalism and scale, and brings them into relation with Staurt Hall's work on the Greater London Council
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The importance of scale
7 December 2020Scale (political, social, ecological and so on) plays a fundamental role in determining our strategies and what we hope to achieve. This post begins a discussion about the relationship between municipalism and scale, and highlights the importance of explicitly considering its impact.
Learning to trust the people
9 December 2020
In the campaign’s launch calls so far, whenever the question of what these new, non-party political, community councils should do once in power comes up, the response is ‘trust the people’. What does this mean? In this context it’s both advice and an invitation.
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Pirates find treasure in the wreckage of UK politics
27 October 2020Flatpack Democracy is a municipalist political movement reclaiming local authorities in the UK. It is trying to redefine how politics is done, returning power to everyday people. The Flatpack 2021 campaign is gearing up for the next elections in May. Spycop revival, lockdown debacle, planning... -
Flatpack 2021: building a new culture
12 November 2020Flatpack 2021 is a quiet revolution. It doesn’t have any policy prescriptions and it isn’t promising to overthrow the state. It aims to build a new politics with only five unassuming prerequisites for its independent candidate councillors. Yet these small asks could set flatpackers on...
Municipalist cities are key players in the corona crisis and the European Green Deal
25 November 2020
Municipalist cities are key players in responding to the coronavirus and implementing the European Green Deal - they should be granted the necessary power to do both.
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Making the European Green Deal work for municipalities
18 November 2020How can the European Green Deal be made to work for municipalities and the people who inhabit them? This debate seeks to answer this question and others related to it by drawing on the proceedings of the Municipalize Europe! event. -
The right to housing is now more important than ever – Why cities demand a larger say in housing policies
24 November 2020What have cities done to secure adequate living conditions before and after COVID-19, and what should the EU do to help cities achieve a breakthrough in terms of affordable housing? Those were the questions guiding the Housing panel during the Municipalize Europe conference on November 05, 2020.