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Can radical new visions restore an old sense of community?

A look at some of the sessions at the recent Stir to Action festival

Martha and Richard Anker: five decades of campaigning for decent incomes

A new benchmark which will make it easier to estimate a living wage for small farmers…

Does the ICA Statement on the Co-operative Identity need revisiting?

'The identity statement is an attempt to create global inclusion but at the same time we…

Judge quashes attempt to halt sale of Mountain Equipment Co-op

The Canadian retailer had been struggling financially and announced its sale to a US private investment…

Co-op News: informing and educating about co-operation

'The frequency, design and layout of the News may have changed over the years, but the…

Can co-ops calm the social media storm?

Amid concern over fake news and polarised debate can co-op ways of working lead to a…

New US co-op development strategy to be discussed at Impact Conference

Coop Impact – organised by sector body NCBA Clusa – runs from 5-9 October

World Cooperative Congress to take place in Seoul in December 2021

The event had been scheduled by the International Cooperative Alliance for November 2020 but was postponed…

Interview: John Holdsclaw of the US National Cooperative Bank

We catch up ahead of his speech at the UKSCS conference about CDFIs, co-op development and…

Sale of leading Canadian co-op MEC prompts campaign to save it

Nearly 70,000 people have signed a petition to scrap a deal selling Mountain Equipment Co-op to…

US energy co-op plans small-scale nuclear reactors

The Utah-based energy supplier wants to build 12 small-scale reactors developed by Oregon's NuScale Power, as…

Co-ops and adversity: Examples from Australia

Melina Morrison of apex body BCCM looks to examples in Canada and from Australia's past to…