Articles | Grassroots Economic Organizing

Cover image of Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future.

May 22, 2025

Making a Money Commons

Katja Durrani

April 7, 2025

Beyond Community Currencies

Alex Lopez

March 14, 2024

An Interview with Ukraine's ReSew Coop

Patrick Le Tréhondat

June 29, 2020

Finding the Thread that Binds Us

Megan McGee

May 26, 2020

Community Capital in the Time of COVID-19

Solidarity Chicago

Most days, Terbish-Ragchaa Galsan and her three children live in the province seat of Tsetserleg so the kids can attend school while their father manages the herds. Terbish-Ragchaa joined the Ar Arvidjin Delgerekh Cooperative because spinning yarn there provided a rare chance for her to earn an income in town.

August 26, 2019

Post-Soviet Co-ops

Sarah Trent

Khaliun Bayartsogt

July 4, 2019

A Health Care Center by the Workers, for the Community

Niko Georgiades

November 2, 2018

Are Personal Currencies a Good Idea?

Matthew Slater

August 13, 2018

The Communes of Rojava

Ian Campbell

August 6, 2018

The Mecca of Anarcho-Tourism

Matthew Slater

June 25, 2018

How to Start and Maintain a Micro-Revolutionary Project

Katarzyna Gajewska, PhD

May 21, 2018

Community Currency and the Blockchain

Oliver Sylvester-Bradley

March 30, 2018

Introducing Solidarity Economy

Solidarity Research Center

December 11, 2017

FairCoop: An Alternative System Outside of Capitalism

Niko Georgiades

December 4, 2017

Kenya’s Sarafu-Credit

Niko Georgiades

August 7, 2017

The Strength of Cooperation

Maro

March 24, 2017

Communes, Cooperatives, and Radical Democracy

Enzan Munzur

January 23, 2017

Permaculture, Commons and Community

Helen Iles

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October 24, 2016

The Cooperative Movement vs. Global Capitalism

Margaret Rapp

Still image from <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4IIQZie7M" target="_blank">The Concept of Timebanking</a></em> by Edgar Cahn

July 27, 2016

DIY System Change

Stephanie Rearick

Hudson Valley Current Board of Directors

July 18, 2016

Keep it Local!

David McCarthy

Maria Reidelbach

July 11, 2016

The Great Transition Experiment

Pamela Boyce Simms

Brett Barndt

April 22, 2016

The Emerging Solidarity Economy in Palestine

SUSY

In addition to conducting independent research, The Rules provides assistance to anti-inequality campaigns including Ekta Parishad. Photo via <a href="http://www.ektaparishad.com/en-us/resources/photos.aspx" target="_blank">Ekta Parishad</a>.

February 22, 2016

The Promises and Perils of Global Economic Activism

Anna Bergren Miller