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…
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…
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…
Why do we tax capital less than labour?
The Covid-19 pandemic has undressed the horrific inequalities that have come to define the many worlds of British…
Luther and the roots of Nordic welfare states
Martin Luther reading from the Epistle to Romans (1:17) that “The righteous will live by faith.” was a…
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…
How do Londons prospective mayors aim to fix it’s housing crisis
The key claim of Thomas Piketty’s seminal book, Capital in the 21st Century, is that capital income is…
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…