Municipal socialism

Things like:

• municipal ownership
• mutual aid
• community organising
• community wealth building
• participatory budgeting
• local Green New Deals

to improve local economies and communities and the lives of residents.

The Preston Model being an example, I think.

But also wider society as a whole?:

the spending of local authority money in order to benefit the public as a whole.

– Municipal socialism - Why the Liberals introduced social welfare reforms - Hi…

Not a new thing:

In the UK, interest in the economic and political possibilities of municipal socialism came and went with the rising and ebbing of the tides of economic reform and mass politics.

– The ‘Preston Model’ and the modern politics of municipal socialism - New thin…

In tension with top-down governance:

Tensions soon arose, however, between local and national aspirations. With the rise of Labour as an electorally successful national party committed to a top-down reorganisation of the British economy, municipal socialism began to wither.

– The ‘Preston Model’ and the modern politics of municipal socialism - New thin…

Only with the sunset of the top-down Keynesian economic management of the postwar Golden Age did municipal socialism begin to re-emerge as a political force. In the dark days of Thatcherism, radical local experiments re-appeared in the shape of the Greater London Council (GLC) and other metropolitan councils

– The ‘Preston Model’ and the modern politics of municipal socialism - New thin…