Maximalism

"The solution is to be the Lernaean Hydra, so that from each cut head two new ones emerge (if they are more, better). The goal is the distributed network, where the fewest possible nodes fall when there is an attack like the one we have seen.

Perhaps seen this way, the closure of A/I is an opportunity to create something new, a network where we are sovereigns of our spaces, where they do not silence us and, above all, as A/I always reminds us, we continue to be human."

In Brittany (France), bakers nearing retirement seek for their workers to take over the business to avoid closure and unemployment. The initiative reflects the need for a process of transferring the company to workers for the entire rural community environment

The LELL grocery store, located in Villeurbanne (Lyon, France), celebrates its tenth anniversary as a Scop, a worker cooperative, betting on a collaboration network to ensure its continuity and sustainability

In Paris, France, the local press highlights the activity and employment cooperative (CAE), which allows young self-employed workers to receive support and the protection of a permanent employment contract (CDI), feeling supported in their dual role as entrepreneurs and employees

The French painting company of Golbey resumes its activity under the Scop model (associated worker cooperative), managed by its workers, thus preserving employment and local activity

In France, faced with the closure of their company, workers unite and create cooperatives to resume activity. Some of them will share their experience at the event «Refaire (ensemble)»

This initiative, promoted by legislators Zwicker and Turner, encourages the purchase of companies by workers through ESOPs and cooperatives, with the aim of preserving jobs and facilitating business succession

An opinion article published in Cincinnati, USA, argues that employees should share in the profits they generate. The column advocates for worker ownership mechanisms, such as ESOPs, to rebuild the American dream and reduce inequality, giving workers a real stake in companies.

Governor Sherrill signs legislation expanding employee ownership in New Jersey. The measure, announced in the state of New Jersey (USA), seeks to expand worker equity participation models in the so-called Garden State 1❤️1📢

Bay Area Voice: California studied employee ownership. SB 1174 would put the evidence into practice. A column published in the Marin Independent Journal, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California (USA), supports SB 1174. The bill would leverage a state study on employee ownership to promote its adoption through ESOPs, cooperatives, and worker buyouts, as an economic development tool

A historic Rapid City hotel joins Ramkota employee ownership. The establishment, with a long history in Rapid City, South Dakota (USA), becomes part of Ramkota's employee ownership program, a hospitality company. The measure expands the participatory model in the sector and ensures the hotel's continuity under worker management

Let's make Labor Day 2026 focus on employee ownership. The article, published by Construction Dive in Washington D.C. (United States), advocates that Labor Day 2026 promote ESOPs in construction so that workers own their companies.

The founders of Black Tomato sell 75% to an employee-owned trust but retain control. The luxury travel agency based in London, UK, transfers most of its capital to an EOT, maintaining the founding management

The associated work cooperative Gredos San Diego (GSD), based in Madrid, Spain, has shared its educational and business model with cooperatives from five Ibero-American countries and in an international cooperation initiative that seeks to transfer good practices of participatory management and sustainability

Norandino connects Peruvian farmers with international markets. The agricultural cooperative Norandino, in Peru, collaborates with Triodos Investment Management to link small local producers with global buyers, strengthening their incomes and rural economic sustainability

An opinion article in Kentucky, United States, argues that employees are the most suitable owners for local businesses, highlighting how worker ownership can benefit the economy and preserve business legacy

Ex-workers on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette founded a cooperative news organization, creating an employee-owned alternative in the media sector. The initiative reflects an emerging model in response to labor conflicts in the press.

“The United States is under surveillance through an increasingly extensive, technologically advanced, and connected surveillance network.

In some cities, such as Houston, Texas, the true scope of this system is a secret. Law enforcement claims that all of this is for public safety: to prevent crimes and facilitate investigations.

Critics consider it an invasion of privacy, susceptible to misuse, and a covert tool that helps ICE in President Trump's deportation campaign.

One company is bearing the brunt of this backlash: Flock Safety. Its network of AI-powered license plate readers spans more than 6,000 communities, generating 20 billion vehicle scans per month. Some vigilante groups have been disabling Flock devices. Social media is full of tips on how to block or disable the cameras.” 1❤️1📢

“Senate Bill 1174, introduced by Republican state Senator Suzette Valladares of Santa Clarita, would give contractors with qualifying employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) a modest preference when bidding on state-funded Caltrans construction projects: 2 percent for companies with between 30 and 49 percent ESOP ownership, 3 percent for those with between 50 and 99 percent ownership, and 4 percent for those with 100 percent ownership. Contractors that are signatories to a qualifying collective bargaining agreement or master labor agreement would receive an additional percentage point.”

Its physical location opened its doors on November 15, 2025. "There was a very community atmosphere," Matthew Rivera, a Washington D.C. resident who was there that day, told Inequality.org . "In the end, it was a success for the community."

Today, the bookstore continues to operate both as a place to buy books and as a community space for public education. According to its managers, these differences are intentional and a consequence of its ownership structure.

To be born, the Pascual Workers Cooperative Society had to pay, since 1985, a toll of blood and death, survive more than a thousand days of strike, economic hardships for workers and their families, the loss of their original plants, and government indifference. Forty-one years later, the sugary drinks tax, their expulsion from schools, and a market favoring transnational soda companies have it – again – against the ropes.

Philippe Brun, candidate in the socialist primaries, understood that the gap between gross salary and net salary, devoured by taxes, fees, and contributions of all kinds, annihilated the acceptance of the French social model. To increase the wages of the working population, he wants to introduce a progressive General Social Contribution (CSG), reducing it for employees earning less than 4,000 euros gross per month.

Another good idea - and obvious but taboo - is the forgiveness of the public debt of states accumulated by the ECB. It is made by Melenchon, a bad spokesperson for a necessary proposal.

"One of the great problems of left-wing politics is that precisely the people that Democrats, liberals, and socialists believe should be most enthusiastic about new and ambitious government programs designed to help them are often the least enthusiastic, and they often vote for the party that wants to cut public spending.

One of the reasons, and one that I think we don't talk about enough, is that their experience with government has often been terrible. Their experience with government programs designed to help them is not only inefficient, but also punitive, humiliating, and controlling.

That is because, at times, those programs are designed to humiliate them, punish them, and control them."