Political and Policy Developments Around the Commons

Context

Given the ecological and political/ social emergencies of the current conjuncture, the emergence of more and more commons initiatives and understandings, but still in the context of progressive forces being too much wedded to the market/state duopoly, we call, with George Por, for the launch of a newsletter that would cover more adequately political and policy developments around the commons.

In this page, I will, with others hopefully, add pointers to recent developments that should be covered in such a newsletter.

Key themes and developments

• the emergence of urban commons and urban commons politics. This refers to developments with the new municipal coalitions in Spain, developments around the Bologna Regulation and its spread in Italy, commons transitions project such as those in Ghent Belgium; the emergence of urban Assemblies of the Commons mostly in France; groups like the Commons Transition Coalition in Melbourne; civil political revolts such as in Saillans or Frome; commons-oriented political inspirations such as Grenoble

• progressive parties and movements that are open to commons understandings; this would involve seeing the commons' aspects of movements like the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns, new parties that are emerging such as Podemos/Syriza; parties / movements with explicit openings towards the commons, such as the Left Party in Italy, Diem in Europe; the Pirate Parties, especially in Iceland

• European and other continental and transnational convergences, specifically the European Commons Assembly and its potential national and regional derivates.

• Emergence of transnational civic and generative networks ?

• How to deal, through commons-oriented approaches, with the authoritarian and right-populists surges a la Trump

Reference material

• our section on urban commons, https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Urban_Commons

• our section on commons policy, https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons_Policy