Municipality - 11/27/2021

Municipality is our theme this week, as Jim and Mark look at bit at the origins of local government in the US, and interview 3 democratic socialists elected to the city councils in Missoula and Billings. Denise Joy was re-elected in Billings despite an extreme right-wing smear campaign. Daniel Carlino was elected to a Missoula City Council seat after a very close campaign against a liberal Democrat. And Kristen Jordan won her seat in Missoula on criminal justice reform. They discuss the ways municipal government can and can't change things for working class people for the better, and what they plan to do in their terms in office. We also look at the massive victory of farmers' unions in India against the neoliberal policies of the government.