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    Care, co-ops and the common good: Can we protect our health from the profit motive?

    'In an increasingly crowded planet with limited resources, humanity cannot afford to stand by and watch competition for private gain dominate the world'

    6 months ago
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    Right to save with a credit union will help defuse pensions time bomb

    Labour/Co-op MP Gareth Thomas says employers should be required to offer a payroll deduction service with a local credit union

    9 months ago
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    Planning a level playing field for co-ops

    Co-ops are too often neglected by government and need regulatory reform, writes Jonathan Reynolds MP

    10 months ago
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    Pandemic means it’s time to bring co-ops together

    Balu Iyer, regional director of International Cooperative Alliance - Asia and Pacific, writes in a personal capacity about why now, more than ever, is the time to co-operate

    3 years ago
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    Gareth Thomas: Labour should drop water and energy nationalisation

    The Labour/Co-op MP says voters were put off by the potential cost of nationalisation and favours mutual options for utilities instead

    3 years ago
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    James Wright, policy officer at Co-operatives UK, on a 'golden opportunity to make devolution work for co-ops' in Manchester

    4 years ago
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    Transforming communities and changing lives: the impact of co-operative education

    Simon Parkinson, principal and chief executive of the Co-operative College, introduces a series of articles on its work

    4 years ago
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    Whatever happened to the International Summit of Cooperatives?

    Tony Patterson, from Co-op Canada Accelerator, investigates the fate of the high-profile Quebec event

    4 years ago
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    4 years ago
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