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Municipalist campaign in Finland

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A new post on the New Compass website describes the campaign of several municipal candidates in northern Finland who are running as part of a broader “Free Left” alliance.  The article is an interview with Svante Malmström, who attended the ISE during the mid-2000s.  Svante states that the group’s program

… states that the decision-powers should be brought back to the citizens. It demands the establishment of neighbourhood assemblies with real power. It also calls for the initiation of a participatory budgeting process.

The full story is at http://new-compass.net/news/communalist-finnish-local-elections.