A success out of the Spanish 15M movement – the PAH
This week I interviewed some people from Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), an organisation for people affected by […]
Workers co-ops and trade unions: uneasy bedfellows
Last night I was at an event put on by Stir magazine, ‘Old Forms, New Strategies: Trade Unions, Co-operatives and […]
James Meade and property-owning democracy
This is something of a follow-up to the previous post, as I have just been reading about someone else, James […]
The Meidner Plan – spreading corporate wealth through ‘Collective Capital Formation’
Rudolf Meidner, one of the architects of the Swedish welfare state – a pretty impressive thing to have on your […]
Transparency is hard but we should all try: a challenge for Elevate Festival
A few weeks ago I was asked to contribute to Elevate Festival by watching livestreams of debates, joining in on […]
Foodbanks aren’t coping – and why should they?
Recently I spoke with the manager of a foodbank in South London. She didn’t offer to go on the record […]
The effect of government contracting on the non-profit sector
Here is an interesting post from elsewhere on the vacuum of politics in most of the NGO sector in the […]
Attacks on organisations criticising Pacific Rubiales in Colombia
I did some work in Colombia with REDHER, a network of social organisations, and yesterday discovered that on Saturday (20th […]
Bringing anarchy to NGOs
Or somewhat more democratic and inclusive forms of organising anyway – this article is interesting: Carne Ross: our forms must […]
Risking everything for peace: Colombia’s bloodied left re-emerges – Part 2
So who are the re-emerging Colombian left? I met my companions in this small Casanare village at a meeting in […]