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New GEO Feature Articles:

Maria Trigona Worker Self-management threatened at the HOTEL BAUEN in Buenos Aires Rally support for the 150 workers who, since 2003, run this high-rise hotel themselves
John Teta Luhman Three Questions from the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives Conference Are worker coops obliged to be actively a part of a larger social justice movement? How do worker coops grow? If worker coops are so great, why isn’t there more of them?
Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone The World Social Forum at the Crossroads in Caracas: The Solidarity Economy and Other Options GEO’s Latin American correspondents talk about the World Social Forum meetings they attended in Caracas in January 2006, the highlight of their recent tour of newly democratized enterprises in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. They discuss the history of the World Social Forum and possible future directions for the Forum.
Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone Reflections on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and its Solidarity Economy The authors analyze the initiatives of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to build a "socialism for the 21st century" based on participatory democracy and using revenues from the oil industry for the benefit of the entire society.
Ethan Miller Solidarity Economics: Strategies for Building New Economies From the Bottom-Up and the Inside-Out There are many alternatives to corporate-driven capitalism. Ethan reminds us that thousands of grassroots initiatives across the U.S. and throughout the world are working to build a “solidarity economy” based on shared values of democratic empowerment and participation, broad social ownership and equity, ecological sustainability and community well-being. Linked together, these projects have the potential to be amplified into a significant force for social and economic transformation.
Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone Cooperativization as Alternative to Globalizing Capitalism Describes  conditions under which co-op networks like the one  near Mondragón, Spain  could be part of a non-violent replacement of capitalism by economic democracy.