Non-profit, egalitarian and socially committed worker cooperatives that operate by consensus and renounce the use of intellectual property and other forms of artificial scarcity as a way to generate income.
If you type «work community» in the Google search bar, the first results that pop up after you press enter would likely be "click bait" on something mistakenly referred to as «communitarian work». The articles talk about professional «social work», NGO volunteering or punitive community service, but never about what a «work community» is nor what real «communitarian work» entails, an institution as universal and ancient as the commons.
Thirty-six years ago, Bruce Sterling's «Islands in the Net» expressed for the first time the dream of a transnational cooperativism capable of offering its members an alternative that would simultaneously address the erosion of social cohesion that was then emerging under Reagan and Thatcher and the fracture, growing steadily since the post-war period, between the general conditions of life and access to resources and knowledge in the most capitalized countries and the rest of the world.
What demoscopic studies reveal about the current level of social awareness, the rise of authoritarian leaderships and how we can work to bring about real change.
An open letter to the European Commission published by «Petites Singularités»
In peninsular Spain there have not been any «interreligious conflicts» nor have there been significant Jewish communities throughout contemporary history, yet anti-Semitism has been and continues to be commonplace, invisible yet omnipresent, in the life of today's generations. Why is that and how can we confront it?
The foundation of Communalia's cooperative model are laid out in the seven Maximalist Cooperative Principles. We go back to the origins and principles of workers cooperativism and we go forward by embracing the new universal commons and by striving to contribute to the global challenges of Humanity in this day and age.
This week we began the registration and legalization of Communalia, an European association of maximalist cooperatives open to foundations, associations and individuals. In this entry we discuss what it is, what is its purpose, why it is necessary and how you can contact us and contribute to the project.