The Preston Model and the Modern Politics of Municipal Socialism
By Thomas M. Hanna, Joe Guinan, Open Democracy
Both the Cleveland and Preston Models represent a reinvention of a longstanding political tradition that played a significant role in the development of mass socialist politics in Europe and North America.
Cooperative Enterprise and System Change
By Joe Guinan, Grassroots Economic Organizing
The years since the financial crisis have been good to cooperatives.
Democratising capital at scale: cooperative enterprise and beyond
By Joe Guinan, Thomas M. Hanna, Open Democracy
Faced with spiralling social, economic and environmental problems, many people are turning to economic democracy for solutions. But what shape should this democracy take?
Social democracy must radicalise to survive
By Joe Guinan, Open Democracy
Social democracy is at an impasse, bereft of an economic programme, but history is on the march. Democratic wealth-holding can give social democrats a new set of economic institutions and political power bases.