https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Muncipalism-of-change-and-metro-workers https://internationalviewpoint.org/Muncipalism-of-change-and-metro-workers 2016-03-21T09:58:03Z text/html en Oscar Blanco Spanish state Catalonia <p>Barcelona en Comú has faced probably its most difficult week in its nine months at the helm of government. Although there have been other moments of tension between the Municipality and sectors of social activism (such as the operations of Guardia Urbana against hawkers), the Metro strike of February 22-24, 2016 was surely the most open and crude confrontation between the town hall and a mobilization from below. It is necessary to reflect on the experiences of “municipalism of change” in a manner which allows us to better understand what has happened and what the implications for the movement are. It is not a question of handing out lessons from positions of comfort to the people who are in the first line institutionally, but providing ideas to derive collective lessons.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV494-March-2016-" rel="directory">IV494 - March 2016</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Spanish-state-+" rel="tag">Spanish state</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Catalonia-+" rel="tag">Catalonia</a>