By Rojava Information Center Staff, Rojava Information Center
What defines a cooperative, as compared to a privately owned business, is that it is owned by those who work in it. Cooperatives seek profit, but distribute it among the members.
By Hilary Wainwright, Red Pepper
For industries to be run by ‘those who spend their lives with them’ means recognising the knowledge drawn from practical experience, which is often tacit rather than codified: an understanding of expertise that opens decision-making to wider popular participation, beyond the private boss or the state bureaucrat.
By Pamela Boyce Simms, Resilience.org
The cooperative movement is in a position to stand in the epicenter of social transformation, by simply doing what it is designed to do —mindfully, and exquisitely well.
By Staff, SolidarityNYC, Grassroots Economic Organising
Our visit to Montreal was built around a desire to understand the city’s uniquely federated Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) sector.
By Len Krimerman, Grassroots Economic Organizing
Regional cooperative development based on grass-rooted practitioner wisdom has become more than an aspiration...
By Jim Senter, Resilience.org
Producers and consumers cooperate in the creation of value and have a common interest in stable, sustainable economic processes.
By Jim Senter, Resilience.org
This is the story of 175 years of successful self-help, of an international movement that built lasting economic institutions out of the pooled pennies of millions of working people.