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Russian authorities seize Japanese boat belonging to fishery co-op

The fishery co-operative says the boat was operating in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, a claim disputed…

Funding boost for Co-op College’s education feedback tool

The tool enables young people with learning difficulties, disabilities and autism to feed back on learning…

Activist Ela Bhatt to address the World Cooperative Congress in Seoul

The UN's Olivier De Schutter, Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal from Mondragon and Basque politician Idoia Mendia will…

Canadian co-operatives eligible for Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund

Two credit unions are also partnering with the government to provide microloans to businesses and entrepreneurs

A new future: What next for the Co-operative College?

We speak with Nina Valvi, new head of business development, about the College’s past and future…

A chequered past: What has happened to the Co-op College?

A look back at the story of the College, leading up to its recent reorganisation

‘The most insightful co-op researcher of our day’: Ed Mayo remembers Johnston Birchall

The former secretary general of Co-operatives UK remembers one of the movement's leading thinkers

Obituary: Johnston Birchall, a scholar and champion for the co-op movement

The Stirling University professor spent 30 years studying the movement, including an important report on co-op…

The London Learning Cooperative: When Karl Marx meets the platform business model

'Our project aims to empower workers, so a workers’ co-operative was the logical choice'

Prince Charles says co-op model can help save small farms

'While there seems to be some deep-seated aversion to farmer co-operatives in this country, they work…

The New Internationalist: five decades of social and environmental journalism

Co-editor Amy Hall talked about the magazine's plans for the future as it approaches its 50th…

OCDC research highlights the co-operative difference in four countries

The report looks at co-ops in Kenya, Peru, Philippines and Poland