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FairCoop: Virus of Cooperation Infects a New economy

The ‘Robin Hood of the Banks’ strikes again. This time the aim is to create a worldwide cooperative to develop and expand a new economy of the commons.Some revolutionary activists have an...

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A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons

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Brooklyn Youth Turn To Cooperatives For Economic Opportunity

A group of Red Hook youth have started a guerilla marketing businessowned by its employees.

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Scaling Up the Cooperative Movement

How can we scale up the cooperative movement without losing our cooperative values?  That is the question contributors seek to answer in this collection of essays.  Contributors include Hilary Abell, Michael Johnson, Joe Guinan and Caitlin Quigley, along...

An edited ebook about expanding the worker co-op movement

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Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time

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Young people are setting up workers’ co-operatives to fight against inequality | Gabriel Bristow

Rather than competing with our peers for unpaid internships, co-ops are an alternative to precarious jobs and low wages

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Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

"But just for one moment imagine that the algorithmic heart of any of these citadels of anti-unionism could be cloned and brought back to life under a different ownership model, with fair working conditions, as a humane alternative to the free market model...."

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"In his well-informed and readable article, Carl Rowlands points to some of the major challenges facing the consumer co-operative movement in the UK. He accurately diagnoses some of its ills, including the lack of real member power and the ossified hierarchy in the movement’s biggest player, The Co-operative Group. Carl sets out to argue that Beatrice Webb’s vision of a powerful co-operative federation that would challenge capitalism was doomed to failure from the start, because of inherent contradictions in the co-operative model. Unfortunately, he repeats the mistakes that Webb made—mistakes that still have consequences today...."

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"The problems at the Co-operative Group have been widely and painfully publicised over the last year. The Group, the biggest if not the brightest star in the UK’s constellation of co-operative businesses, has been undertaking emergency measures, forced to sell off some of its most profitable enterprises, such as the pharmacy division, and its farms. The Group’s future, upon which most co-operative retail in the UK depends, is unclear. Yet, however destructive recent mismanagement of the Group has been, the root cause of co-operative sector difficulties runs much deeper, stemming from an unresolved contradiction at the heart of the model itself......"