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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.

Cooperative development is the most important social change work that a person can do.

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard talks about her research into the history of African-American co-ops.

We continue to explore the relationship between cooperativism and the market and society. Is cooperativism “a practical demonstration of the possibility of an economy without bosses? A convenient mode of distribution of commodities? An economic form that preserves exploitation of workers and fails to overthrow bourgeois political domination? A way to live out the principles and values of Christianity in the economic terrain?”

The 2025 Union Co-op Symposium took place from October 17-18, offering workshops, panels and conversations on how the cooperative and labor movements can work together to build a democratic economy. This year’s theme was From Breakdown to Breakthrough, focusing on how we can meet this moment of system breakdown with cooperative solutions. 

The GEO is back in print after 19 years! 

In this chapter, Razeto makes use of a concept that is one of Antonio Gramsci’s most important theoretical contributions – the “determined market.”

In this chapter the author proposes the creation of four intercooperative bodies: an exchange for cooperative shares, a labor exchange, a financial entity, and a research and development arm.

The new approach that Razeto proposes here is made up not through federation of cooperative businesses but association of individuals in small groups or base communities. This is his movement-building perspective: cooperative organizing from the grassroots, with a clear distinction drawn between representational and operational functions.

In this chapter, we emerge from the microeconomic analysis of equilibrium in the cooperative firm into a scene peopled with “extra-economic” figures like ethics, society, and politics.