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🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
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Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.

When the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …

In my view, those involved in reformist or traditional trade unions might consider that genuine worker self-managment comes through syndicalist structures.
Unions rooted in the workplace, organized through general assemblies, with delegates who are strictly mandated and immediately recallable, without any permanent bureaucracy, embody the principles of direct democracy and worker self-management.
Any organization claiming to be syndicalist while maintaining hierarchical decisio…