In 2025, the USFWC membership voted unanimously to endorse labor neutrality as a standard for the cooperative sector.

The People’s Network for Land & Liberation consortium includes six community-based organizations that are doing politics and economics differently. That looks like a Black cooperatively-owned sea moss business in Atlanta, or a digital fabrication lab where people can 3-D print the things they need. “We can stop feeding the monster that’s consuming us, and actually disconnect from that process and use what we have,” says PNLL Network Member Blair Evans.

Cooperatives in the Global Economy is a much-needed series of essays that demonstrate the concrete realities of cooperative economics across the globe. After a foundational chapter on the meaning of cooperative enterprise and its distinction among the endless models and forms of economic activity, the rest of the book essentially looks at geographic profiles. Readers learn about the thriving cooperative movement in Tanzania, India, Philippines, Argentina, South Africa, Armenia, ‘Post-Yugoslav Space’ and others.

Unaddressed trauma among workers negatively impacts their experience in the workplace, including the cooperative workplace. While lawyers who counsel worker cooperatives may develop conflict resolution tools, they far less commonly provide resources for responding to worker trauma that can, and often does, lead to conflict in the first place. Trauma has become an increasingly pervasive topic in the post-COVID-19 workplace.

We often speak of trust as something that develops over time: as a reward for reliability or a product of shared experience. And right there is the challenge that every movement for economic transformation faces: this kind of trust is intimate. It forms in small circles, between people who have shared meals. Work done in council circles, in conflict resolution processes, in transparent governance, all of this is trust-infrastructure. The architecture on which anything else can be built.

Interview with Unai Gaztelu of Txirrin (pronounced 'chirrin') - a group looking to launch a housing commons project in the Basque country, but first, they're practising with bicycles and cars! 

AI generated music has exploded over the last 6 months, and we've not been immune to it. Despite our content policy forbidding entirely AI generated content (which includes album covers) we've still been witnessing a massive uptick in uploads on our platform from music generated with AI, especially since

The Just Leader Fellowship is designed for individuals who identify or have background with QTBIPOC either personally or in the community and are land and food justice leaders and stewards - people between 18–30 years old who have lived experience in land stewardship, cooperative economics, food sovereignty, or movement ecosystem-building and have an emerging or nascent project ready for incubation inside of an 8-month container.

Repair x Share Summit 2026: Building a Care Economy!

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This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resisting degeneration.