We need our national and international organizations to join us. I call on others to participate in building the movement while reframing and redirecting the Federation to become a member-controlled and -focused organization once again.
The purpose of this article is to share the concept of a Solidarity Economic Circuit as presented in Euclides Andre Mance’s 2022 curriculum Solidarity Economic Circuits and Economic Liberation – moving from capitalist economy to liberation economy.
The Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB) took a stand to support the UN Climate Summit, COP30, held in Belem, Brazil on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. The OCB issued a Manifesto outlining their many projects that support a truly sustainable society.
What appears to be a proof of the economic viability of the cooperative enterprise, turns out to be an argument for the potential of cooperativism, as part of a larger movement of movements, to constitute a force capable of overcoming the crisis of the State by re-founding political democracy on new, distributed and democratic foundations.
The author’s task here is to explain the functioning of a democratic market and how market democratization, actual perfect competition, might be achieved in the face of monopoly, oligopoly, centralization, and other anti-competitive phenomena.