For growing numbers of municipalists, new politics means fundamentally reshaping the bundle of relationships that constitute the alienating state-machine, in favour of new forms of collective social organisation.
¿De qué estamos hablando exactamente a día de hoy cuando hablamos de “nuevo municipalismo” o “municipalismo transformador” tal como lo defienden las Ciudades sin miedo?. English.
What exactly are we talking about when we refer to the “new municipalism” or “municipalist transformation” as defined by the Fearless Cities movement?
When a young black attorney was elected mayor of Jackson, Mississipi, rather than ask what the local state could do, he asked, what can we do to the local state?
Barcelona’s battle to take its water company back under public ownership is reaching its climax in the courts and at the ballot box.
How is anyone going to go to work if no-one does the ironing, cooks, or looks after the children? I think putting this issue on the table is one of the great victories of March 8. An interview.
Within the framework of this year's "Fearless Cities" summit, Fundación Avina and DemocraciaAbierta established a special collaboration to explore the most innovative poltical experiences arising from Latin America. Español Português Check the project here.
At Fearless Cities – we catch up with the Coordinator of the Refuge City Plan of Barcelona City Council, and two fellow panellists, activists from Berlin, Germany and Philadelphia, USA.
After 20 months in charge of Barcelona, here are eight things we have learned from Ada Colau and Barcelona en Comú.
Passive, spectator politics is not an option. It is up to the activists to prove that maintaining a party in movement is possible over the long term. Español
openDemocracy and its partners brought activists, academics, and policy makers together in Barcelona late last July to discuss a way forward for refugee-related activism and city welcome policies.
Barcelona seeks to welcome refugees and migrants into the fabric of the city, but its efforts have been stymied by the national government.
