How Sister Midnight aims to create a music venue powered by its community
It should come as no surprise that the music industry continues to be dominated by large corporations, motivated…
Browsing Category
Cooperatives
31 posts
Why has New York seen a boom in new worker cooperatives?
New York could be considered the heart of global capitalism, home to the infamous Wall Street, yet within…
Wings co-op – How the courier owned Deliveroo alternative could help strengthen the wider co-op economy?
Deliveroo is famous for bright blue bags and worker exploitation. The company has fought hard to stop their…
Preston Council plan to launch a food subscription cooperative to fight food poverty
Nweeda and Martyn are Preston City Council Councillors Giving away that surplus appliance to a family member, friend…
Why Italy might see a worker cooperative boom post-Covid
A Worker Buyout (WBO) is when the workers collectively purchase a business from its previous owner, often creating…
One of the world’s most cited computer scientists wants cooperatives to be the future of how data is owned
The current data economy is based on apathetic approval – everyone clicking on “I accept the terms and…
Cooperatives can help explain the rise and fall of social democracy. They can also help revitalise it.
The social democratic movement has primarily been based on two simple organising methods. One was to get a…
Why has the number of worker co-ops increased 20 fold in the UK since 1970?
In the early 1970s there were only around 20 worker cooperatives in the UK, most of which had…
A boom in trailer parks converting into community owned cooperatives
Mobile home communities in the US Approximately 22 million people, or around 6% of the US population, live…
The Indonesian cooperative movement and the potential of worker owned platform economy
“Having maintained political stability, Indonesia is one of East Asia Pacific’s most vibrant democracies, emerging as a confident…