A Preston Model for Organised Labour
During the Cameron government, Preston’s Labour-run City Council responded to cuts to local authority budgets with an interlocking…
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Co-op and Nationwide members pushing for early-stage funding for new co-ops
Politics and elections often focus on Westminster and the UK’s other elected government bodies but most of us…
The future of tech will be an old model: The co-op
When we think of cooperatives, we often associate them with images of small, local, community-driven businesses. Our first…
How socialists created a cooperative commonwealth in the American midwest
Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 Presidential election is a victory for liberalism against America’s populist right but…
Why a platform cooperative experiment to deliver mass Covid testing failed
Back in March as SARS-CoV-2 was integrating itself into the population of the UK, we – a couple…
Lessons from Mondragon: Financing the Fightback
Those on the progressive side of economics are used to playing the long game when it comes to…
Inventor cooperatives – Could this unique Finnish model shape the future of how we invent things?
The rise and fall of Nokia Nokia’s success is often described in Finland as a miracle; the company…
A 2 million members strong opportunity for the British cooperative movement
What would you say to a national federation of co-operatively owned bars? Each bar is an independent co-op…
Building Back Better With Community Owned Businesses – The Liverpool Way
Nick Small is the Founder and Director of Social Impact Consulting tweeting @social_impct. He’s also a Labour and…
The fan owned club bringing football back to Bury
“By the fans, for the fans” is the tagline of Bury AFC. They are a fan owned club…