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Economic Justice

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.

August 21, 2025

Reimagining NGO Relationships with Cooperatives

I want to emphasize the urgent need to reimagine the relationship between NGOs and cooperatives. Instead of NGOs or funders defining projects based on their own interests, support and resources should be offered at the community’s request.

August 7, 2025

The Role of Solidarity Finance in Sustainable Local Development in Ecuador

This study explores the role of solidarity finance in promoting local development and the empowerment of marginalized communities through financial inclusion and access to community credits. It focuses on how solidarity-based financial mechanisms provide accessible credit with fewer barriers, fostering productive activities and economic resilience.

June 26, 2025

Tenants Take Ownership of their Building and Run it as a Cooperative

Housing cooperatives present a huge potential to the housing stock, not just in Hamilton but across Canada.

June 23, 2025

How the Commons Can Reach Working-Class Communities

We need to shift to a new system, so that we can be fed, watered, housed, cared for, and enjoy our lives as best as possible in a more environmentally-unstable future.

June 12, 2025

Collective Governance and Solidarity Economies

Founded on women’s liberation, ecological sustainability, and direct democracy, Rojava’s political system provides a dramatic alternative to the status quo values of patriarchy, capitalism, and the nation-state that define the Middle East and much of the world. 

June 9, 2025

How Many Dreams Fit Inside a Train Car?

The Rede Mulheres do Maranhão (RMM) – Women’s Network of Maranhão –  is a cooperative made up of 16 solidarity enterprises, bringing together more than 200 members. Their activities include the production of sweets and honey, processing and cracking of babaçu nuts and cashew nuts, baking, vegetable and greens cultivation, and clothing manufacturing.

May 26, 2025

Overcoming Financial Difficulty for Co-ops

Ai Van Kok explains how she has used "The £1 Model" to help worker co-ops in the UK better understand, and take control of, their business expenses.