The small town that started a community revolution across Europe | Aditya Chakrabortty

The latest article in our new economics series looks at what happened when a German utilities contract expired, and one man thought his neighbours could take over
• Listen to Aditya Chakrabortty talking about game-changing economic models on The Alternatives podcastMartin Rühl never imagined this fight would define the rest of his life. Not for a moment did he reckon it would become so epic in length, in scale, in consequences. He just thought his speck of a town should run its own ele