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An interview with Angelica, Bianca, and Noa of Tribe Co-create, conducted by Malikia Johnson as part of the Take Care of Each Other World Tour.

Jim Johnson talks about his upbringing, how he got into cooperatives, specifically worker cooperatives, how he got into peer-to-peer worker co-op assistance, and where he would like to see the movement focus now.

The Democratic Federation of Norther Syria deserves to be protected by the US, not abandoned to the Turkish army.

GEO is launching a fundraiser to pay for the new website.

In this chapter Razeto seeks paths to solidarity economy in traditional indigenous economic and cultural practices. Situating the experience of the Andean peoples in the historical context of conquest, colonization, and the development of capitalism, Razeto considers the features that distinguish traditional economies and answers questions posed by their development: how was technology traditionally understood and practiced? To what degree do those features continue to exist? Can traditional economic forms and practices be recuperated, in whole or in part? Are they efficient? Which elements are most harmonious with solidarity economy?

In this chapter Razeto uses the analysis of solidarity economy developed to this point to make sense of the family as an economic unit and form of collective organization, and understand the roles of women as its main protagonists. The disintegration of the traditional family under industrial capitalism, with the rise of wage labor outside the home, the erosion of domestic and community economic activity, the creation of the nuclear family, and the concomitant changes in gender roles and the division of labor are shown to have aggravated inequality and damaged core relations of human solidarity.

The Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives has set up a revolving loan fund for their members.

This chapter offers a framework for analyzing the “ecological problem” that should be useful to those seeking to make sense of the economic aspect of the current planetary crisis. Razeto summarizes the crisis, considers the importance and insufficiency of existing approaches at the level of the State and Civil Society, and the difficulty of controlling nature and then offers a “theory of the ecological question” that focuses on the economy and its “mode of action and organization.”

In this chapter Razeto examines a question that has been central for the vast majority of people in the world: the question of development. Like many before him, Razeto questions the meaning of development and the objectives sought, opposing an alternative “desirable development” to the dominant model centered on industrialization, capital accumulation, and structural inequality.