Azzellini, Dario. 2025. “Contemporary Communes and Council Democracy in Latin America.” Socialism and Democracy. DOI: 10.1080/08854300.2024.2435067.

Ideas and practices of communal self-administration are widespread in Latin America, especially among indigenous and Afro-American communities, stemming from ancestral customs. Commune-like self- administration predates the Paris Commune and has surfaced repeatedly throughout history. It was present in the wars of independence, in peasant uprisings, in revolts and revolutions in the early 20th century and in the struggles of its second half. The idea of the commune as democratically self-governed space corresponds to the framework of alternative imagination of many popular movements and the experiences of building popular power...