The article connects the square occupations since 2011 with the workplaces under workers’ control, which started to appear in Latin America around 2000 and then spread out from there, and with forms of local self-management. Beyond all differences these practices all build spaces for the production of social alternatives. I point out the shared characteristics and argue that they are part of global non-state-centered perspectives of social transformation. These practices of the new global movements display a growing tendency towards direct democracy, self-organization and autonomy. Contrary to the critique regarding a supposed lack of strategy I show how the strategy consists precisely in experimenting and developing the aspired societal changes in the self-produced spaces. The participants of these practices do not see them as a niche but as an alternative model for the whole of society. The practices are connected among each other through networks and form new spatial configurations.