For four years, municipalists held power in cities across Spain. Their successes and setbacks hold important lessons for municipalist activists and organizers today
The pandemic has damaged municipalism in Barcelona, but it has strengthened the municipalist hypothesis itself: our strength must be rooted in togetherness
The urgent questions that progressive activists in the U.S. are now asking themselves are, not just how to fight back against Trump, but also how to harness the momentum of Bernie Sandersā primary run to fight for the change
With Trump in the White House and GOP majorities in the House and Senate, we must look to cities to protect civil liberties and build progressive alternatives from the bottom up
Creating a real democracy is about more than winning elections. Itās about changing how politics is done from below, starting with our daily lives, in our homes, neighbourhoods and cities
The successes, limitations and possibilities of citizen platforms after their first months in power in cities across Spain
Barcelona en ComĆŗ is bringing issues like womenās sense of security in public spaces, the division of domestic labor and the feminization of poverty into the mainstream
On a wave of political struggles, a new municipal platform ā Guanyem Barcelona ā was launched this year with a ādemocratic rebellionā as its goal
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