Internationalism and the New Municipalism
By Laura Roth, Bertie Russell, ROAR Magazine
In moving together, municipalist movements are already demonstrating internationalism — in the “old” sense of working together across boundaries. Yet this internationalism provides the crucible for working towards internationalism in a “new” sense...
Radical Municipalism: Demanding the Future
By Bertie Russell, Open Democracy
We’re aware that we can’t look to anyone but ourselves to start generating forms of political activity that both overcome the unwelcome return of nationalism, and that genuinely increase the prospects for just, ecologically sound and equitable ways of organising our societies. These will necessarily be aimed at the end of capitalism and the nation-state, and towards democratically organized societies held in common.
How Progressive Cities Can Reshape the World — And Democracy
By Oscar Reyes, Bertie Russell, Foreign Policy In Focus
From A Coruña to Valencia, Madrid and Zaragoza, these municipal movements are the direct efforts of citizens rejecting the old mode of doing politics, and starting to effect change where they live.
