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August 3, 2016

Market Socialism In Yugoslavia and its Relevance to Cuba Today

John Curl spent two weeks in Cuba as a member of a 28-person multinational delegation of cooperative movement activists and academics, organized by the Center for Global Justice.  Cuba is reinventing their economy based on worker cooperatives in small enterprises, instead of the government trying to run the entire economy. They are still in the experimental stage, with most of the pilot programs located in Havana.  Curl read his paper, “Market Socialism in Yugoslavia and its Relevance to Cuba”, on June 28, 2016 at the University of Havana.

July 12, 2016

A reflection on race/class/gender

The only way out of our sexist nightmare is through it together. Men of all colors and classes will have to leave their cocoons of privilege, and allow women to begin leading them  through it. If our women are not willing to do this, not capable of moving beyond their traumas, rage and despair, then there is, indeed, no way out.

July 5, 2016

Evergreen: A Case Study for Our Movements

In this blog I want to share my current thinking about the meaning of the Evergreen project to our cooperative/solidarity and other alternative economic movements. This meaning is of major importance. That project may be the most concentrated effort to mainstream worker cooperatives of an industrial size in the US. To boot, it was combined with an innovative green economic development strategy.