Solidarity Economy Organizing

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard talks about her research into the history of African-American co-ops.

Despite social distancing measures resulting from the coronavirus outbreak, people are forming grassroots groups to meet common needs and combat social isolation.

A documentary about the Solidarity Economy movement in Barcelona. Versions available in English, Spanish, and French, and Japanese.

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

Community land trusts can be a mechanism for realizing reparations in urban and underserved communities.

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.

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.”