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August 19, 2024

Back to Basics: Aligning Our National Organizations with Co-op Principles

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.

October 3, 2016

A Cooperative Manifesto

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

March 23, 2026

Get Ready for a Grassroots Poetry Slam

find a (relatively) short poem to share and bring it to our May 4th virtual Solidarity Economy Poetry Slam!

March 16, 2026

The Best Creative Commons License for the Solidarity Economy

If we want to expand the solidarity economy by building the knowledge commons, the best license to use is CC BY-SA.

March 16, 2026

Memories of Len Krimerman from the Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective

Members of Grassroots Economic Organizing share memories of our dearly departed co-founder, Len Krimerman.

March 9, 2026

Remembering Len Krimerman

Len Krimerman, co-founder of Grassroots Economic Organizing, as well as many other things, passed away this last December. A beloved and hard-working comrade, he will be greatly missed by those he leaves behind.

March 2, 2026

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 18

In this chapter, Luis Razeto identifies the key to the democratic transformation of the market – “the formation of a new social block, a subject of transformational action, the bearer of a new structure of social action” – and analyzes the various theoretical and practical obstacles that must be overcome in order for it to occur.

February 26, 2026

A Gourmet for the People

How a group of food writers is reviving a legendary magazine as a worker-owned cooperative.

February 12, 2026

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 17

In order to identify the role that cooperativism can play in addressing the current crisis of the capitalist mode of production, we should analyze the preceding process of capitalist development as well as its contemporary crisis.