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February 20, 2020

10 Resources on Black Liberation & Economic Democracy

A list of readings on Black liberation and economic democracy.

April 30, 2014

Black Farming, Self Determination and Resilience

Dr. Monica White talks about her research into Black farming.

October 9, 2025

Introducing Coops4Coops

This month's Co-op Conversation featured Olivia Champagne and her talk, "Introducing Coops4Coops: Scaling Inter-Cooperation Across Canada". Coops4Coops is a growing, embeddable digital directory that connects co-operatives offering services to other co-operatives across Canada.

October 2, 2025

Reshaping the Music Industry through Solidarity

The music industry doesn’t have to be exploitative. What if artists owned the platforms we depend on? What if musicians shared resources, power, and profits—together?

September 25, 2025

Worker Cooperative Conference Declares Solidarity with Immigrants & People Facing Housing Insecurity

At the conclusion of the 5th Midwest Regional Rendezvous of worker cooperators, the participants unanimously ratified two declarations in solidarity with immigrants and people facing housing insecurity.

September 22, 2025

Cooperatives and Business Schools: Why the Disconnect?

Business schools are not neutral purveyors of teaching and research about how to organise. More often than not, they sell a very particular form of knowledge and act as outlets for a form of life in which a cooperative economy is ignored. Using international evidence, our article shows that cooperatives lack adequate intellectual presence in academia in research or education. We explore the disconnect between academia and the cooperative economy in a search for explanations and justifications. Our analysis suggests
that this state of affairs denies the cooperative sector an opportunity to both address its skill shortages and acquire the organisational capabilities needed to boost the impact of cooperative enterprises.

September 18, 2025

‘Empresas Recuperadas’: Argentina’s Recovered Factory Movement

 The ‘empresas recuperadas' or worker-recovered enterprise movement in Argentina emerged as a response to the country's sovereign debt crisis of 2001, with workers fighting for their right to run abandoned factories. Central to the movement is an ethos of solidarity, with worker-owned enterprises based on horizontal authority, collective decision-making and shared returns from the business.

September 11, 2025

Toward Worker-Focused Worker Co-op Conversions

An MCLE webinar providing political education on the history of worker co-op conversions and suggesting strategies to negotiate worker co-op conversions focused on the workers.

September 1, 2025

A Tribute to Charles O. Prejean

A tribute to Charles O. Prejean, founding charter member and first Executive Director of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, serving from 1967 to 1985.