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    President Dilma: Let Brazil set an example for a new ecological economy
    January 2011
    Marcos Arruda

    President Dilma Roussef has the mandate and responsibility to forge a new development path: one based on participatory planning, a social market and environmental sustainability.

    Insisting on an alternative: meeting the challenge of the cuts
    August 2010
    Mike Marqusee

    The logic of "the market" masks a modern form of despotism where the self-interests of financial elites are dressed up as the "public good."

    Now to complete the democratic revolution
    May 2009
    Hilary Wainwright

    The current anger in Britain over MPs' misuse of public money is more than outrage at the pathetic greed of public representatives. It is a fury over a deep-seated failure of public control of public money, that should now be the basis of a movement to complete the unfinished struggle for...

    New Politics News
    February 2009
    New Politics

    News from the New Politics programme (last updated in February 2009).

    Utopia reborn?
    October 2008
    TNI
     César Rodríguez-Garavito, Patrick Barret and Daniel Chavez
    The resurgence of the left in Latin America has taken social and political analysts by surprise, and this book is the first attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the origins, characteristics, dilemmas and possible future trajectories of the various manifestations of the new Latin American...
    Participatory democracy at the crossroads
    September 2008
    TNI
     Eurotopia No. 5

    ‘Citizens’ participation’ is a fashionable political concept, but one that increasingly means all things to all people. It is time to reclaim ‘participation’ from those who would use it simply to legitimise existing political institutions. This issue of Eurotopia explores different models of...

    Participatory democracy in Europe
    September 2008
    Jax Jacobsen

    Since 2002, the number of municipalities across Europe which have taken up participatory budgeting in some form has grown from just a handful to well over 150. Yet the nature – and success – of the schemes varies widely.

    The Left in the City
    April 2007
    Daniel Chavez
     Edited with Benjamin Goldfrank

    The Left in the City explores examples of progressive parties in local office from across the continent, from Mexico to Uruguay and from Brazil to Peru, and examines the successes and failures of the Left in government.

    Malaga Declaration
    March 2007
    TNI
    Participatory Budgets in Europe
    March 2007
    TNI
     Giovanni Allegretti and Carsten Herzberg
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