14Jan
12Jan
The End of Capitalism Has Begun
Paul Mason, The Guardian, July 17, 2015 The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. For much of the 20th...
18Nov
UNRISD – SSE raising international profile
Social and solidarity economy (SSE) is raising its profile internationally! Last September, the International Leading Group on SSE featured SSE at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York thanks to a side-event chaired by the President of France François Hollande. Paul Ladd, new...
15Jul
Mixed fortunes as solidarity economy takes root in Greece
Time banks, farmer-to-buyer sales groups and alternative currencies springing up but expansion has not been steady or easy A bartering bazaar in Volos, where tem currency coupons are exchanged for products or services. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Emma Graham-Harrison in Athens Friday 17 July 2015 07.36 EDT Last...
30Jun
Interview: Mondragon Corporation: A Manufacturer of Equality
Josu Ugarte. Photo credit: Financial Times photos / Foter / CC BY. Article cross-posted from TooMuch. By Too Much June 26, 2015 - In the United States, top corporate execs sometimes make more in an hour than their workers can make in a...
19Jun
On Alternative Ways of Living Sustainably: Lessons From Solidarity & Social Economy in Madrid
A sneak peek of the Solidarity Economy Fair in Madrid, June 14th 2015 By Gaia ParadisioHuffington Post June 16, 2015 - The majority of times we think we are not free to think of the world as a unity of people all...
27May
Tunisia’s Habib Essid and His Government Is Developing Strategy to Organize Social and Solidarity Economy
Tunis Afrique Presse, May 19, 2015 Gammarth — Prime Minister Habib Essid said the government is currently developing a comprehensive national strategy to organise, structure, regulate and define the areas of intervention, funding and managing the sector of social and solidarity economy....
18May
A Social, Solidarity… and Female Economy
Ginebró school, a cooperative education founded 40 years ago in Catalonia. A company model of solidary and social economy supported by l’iesMed (photo iesMed) With the support of the Secretariat of the UfMThe Social and Solidarity Economy is playing an active role in...
23Apr
Texas Taxicab Drivers Rally for Worker-Owned Co-op
By Tyler WhitsonAustinMonitor.com April 22, 2015 - As Austin’s ground transportation service industry faces upheaval due to new competition, taxi drivers are using a looming expiration of the city’s taxicab franchises as an opportunity to push for, among other requests, a cooperative,...
16Apr