A new film documents how Spain's new municipalist candidacies won the elections: through their roots in prominent local struggles and willingness to spearhead radical democratic participation. Their program and praxis chime with Bookchin's libertarian municipalism.

Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a day set aside to remember the many who have died serving in the U.S. Military’s many wars. It may seem like a harmless U.S. holiday, but it is intimately tied to that nation’s history of racism. Let us have a closer look at its historical background.

Far too many Americans are dependent on the car, writes Janet Biehl in her contribution to Social Ecology and Social Change. Since the autodependent surburban infrastructure was conciously built, however, it can be conciously unbuilt and replaced by dense, walkable, and humanly scaled cities.

Janet Biehl compares the centuries old town meetings of New England and the brand new communes and confederations of Rojava. Both are face-to-face democratic assemblies that take place at the most local level. However, they also differ in important aspects.

April 22nd, 1970, was the first celebration of Earth Day. What is the status of these mobilizations of protest and hope today? In order to renew its promises, Brian Tokar argues, we should look at what really made ecology such a compelling alternative worldview since the 1970s.

Both increased municipal power and increased citizen control of municipalities, are essential for a more democratic and ecological future. Attempts to increase these are often met with resistance. Two recent examples from Texas are particularly illustrative.