Worker cooperativism in the 21st century. Worker cooperatives that are non-profit, egalitarian and socially committed, that operate by consensus and renounce the use of intellectual property and other forms of artificial scarcity.

22/10/2024 | #18 | Organization Cooperatives build the resilience of human communities that are very different from each other and this is because, when needs and commitment to a cause come together, we need to have at our disposal a mechanical element that allows us to respond and scale up a communitarian response as quickly as possible.

Resilience and cooperativism

Cooperatives build the resilience of human communities that are very different from each other and this is because, when needs and commitment to a cause come together, we need to have at our disposal a mechanical element that allows us to respond and scale up a communitarian response as quickly as possible.

8/10/2024 | #17 | Moral When people talk about education, they usually mean training. But if we really want to learn, we need to abandon the idea that problems can be solved through recipes and procedures. Learning is learning to solve problems by understanding and overcoming them. And in order to do that we have to understand that learning is not only about doing better but about being better.

Education is not training, it is about doing and being better

When people talk about education, they usually mean training. But if we really want to learn, we need to abandon the idea that problems can be solved through recipes and procedures. Learning is learning to solve problems by understanding and overcoming them. And in order to do that we have to understand that learning is not only about doing better but about being better.

7/10/2024 | #16 | Contemporary Cooperativism The social movement is repeatedly coming up with cooperative-based solutions, but many of those we see emerging are destined to become diluted and collapse, leaving behind a deep trail of demoralisation. Why? What is wrong with the very foundations of present-day cooperativism?

What is wrong with the cooperativism of today?

The social movement is repeatedly coming up with cooperative-based solutions, but many of those we see emerging are destined to become diluted and collapse, leaving behind a deep trail of demoralisation. Why? What is wrong with the very foundations of present-day cooperativism?

1/10/2024 | #15 | Contemporary Cooperativism Europe is currently experiencing a revival of cooperativism and in particular that of worker cooperativism. Despite the fact that cooperatives are invisibilized through the

The awakening of worker cooperatives in Europe

Europe is currently experiencing a revival of cooperativism and in particular that of worker cooperativism. Despite the fact that cooperatives are invisibilized through the "Social Economy" discourse, thousands of workers in France, Germany, Italy or Spain, fed up with the precariousness of life and work and the absence of solutions proposed in increasingly divisive and aggressive discourses, are overcoming passivity, confronting atomization, organizing productively, joining their families and communities and collectively taking the future into their own hands.

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