Bertie Russell - openDemocracy

Building the new left economics: public-commons partnerships and new circuits of ownership

Public-commons partnerships would undo the damage done by PFI while providing a new model for socialist institutional transformation.

By Bertie Russell and Keir Milburn

/ 27 Jun 2019

Building the new left economics: public-commons partnerships and new circuits of ownership

El municipalismo de Ciudades Sin Miedo

La prioridad política de un número creciente de municipalistas es remodelar a fondo el conjunto de relaciones que constituyen la maquinaria de un Estado alienante. English

By Bertie Russell

/ 28 Feb 2019

Fearless Cities municipalism: experiments in autogestion

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.

By Bertie Russell

/ 21 Feb 2019

Fearless Cities municipalism: experiments in autogestion

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.

By Bertie Russell

/ 21 Feb 2019

Jackson Rising

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?

By Bertie Russell

/ 13 Sep 2018

Radical municipalism: demanding the future

‘Municipal politics’ may raise new types of demands crucial in organising powerful social movements and improving material conditions, while orienting us towards new understandings of what is possible.

By Bertie Russell and Plan C

/ 26 Jun 2017

Eight lessons from Barcelona en Comú on how to Take Back Control

After 20 months in charge of Barcelona, here are eight things we have learned from Ada Colau and Barcelona en Comú.

By Oscar Reyes and Bertie Russell

/ 8 Mar 2017

Eight lessons from Barcelona en Comú on how to Take Back Control

After 20 months in charge of Barcelona, here are eight things we have learned from Ada Colau and Barcelona en Comú.

By Oscar Reyes and Bertie Russell

/ 8 Mar 2017