“If you work it, you should control it”

Posted on February 27, 2023March 1, 2023 by cooperativeswm

In February 2023 Les Huckfield delivered a lecture on worker coops from the 1970s to the present day. Here is the recording.

The slides can be viewed here

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In February 2023 Les Huckfield delivered a lecture on worker coops from the 1970s to the present day. Here is the recording. The slides can be viewed here

Jan

The cost of living crisis has once again shown the need for the building of a solidarity economy as an alternative to failed neo-liberalism. We desperately need coops in housing, energy, food, and many other areas of the economy to give democratic and economic control to workers and consumers. We are delighted to have […]

Sep

We’re really looking forward to welcoming Les Huckfield, formerly MP for Nuneaton, to talk about the history of workers coops in the 1970s, on the 23rd February 2023. We make no apologies about learning from the past. As workers across the world face austerity, war and the impacts of climate change, more than […]

Sep

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Feb

The Cooperative Party have published Our Future In Our Hands – A co-operative plan for the next mayor of the West Midlands. You can download the report here. As the election for Mayor approaches, Cooperatives West Midlands will work with the wider cooperative movement in lobbying all mayoral candidates to implement the recommendations of Our Future In […]

Jan

A guest post by Dr Gregory Roberts (pictured) The Cooperative Movement has had a long and enduring tradition in many countries from which the Black, Asian and Ethnic minority communities are drawn. In the days of the colonial times, the formal arrangements of the movement, whether credit unions or marketing/purchasing groups, met with the informal […]

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In our latest podcast, Mani, one of the founders of the Warehouse Cafe, a workers coop, talks to Steph Vidal-Hall about the difference that being a member of a workers coop makes to people’s lives, and helps them to find meaning in the world. Listen now Yo Cooperatives West Midlands