Fearless communes: An interview with two Chilean mayors
President-elect Gabriel Boric is a testament to Chile’s changing tides. No longer afraid, a new generation—with help from the old—took to the streets on October 19th, 2019 to win back the rights that the Pinochet dictatorship had stripped away. We interviewed Érika Martínez of San…
The lay of the land: Radical municipalism in the US and Canada
During the last five years, we have seen major social and political upheavals across the United States and Canada. Yet beneath the surface of tumultuous events, such as the George Floyd uprisings, Donald Trump’s presidency, or the COVID19 pandemic, a new tendency of grassroots organizing…
New municipalists in the UK must judge this moment correctly and calibrate accordingly
The writing of this piece was prompted by a recent article by Matthew Thompson: “The uses and abuses of municipalism on the British Left”. In his strident and finely written piece, Matt argues that the term “new municipalism” is too often conflated into general debates…