This week I interviewed some peopleĀ from Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), an organisation for people affected by bad mortgages and evictions in Spain. I’ll write it up properly later but a summary of why they seem to be successful: 1. The organisation is a network of local groups made up mostly of…
Month: December 2013
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 the Commons’, which discussed the historical lack of co-operation between trade unions and the co-operative movement in the UK. The lack of interaction is not an accident. A mixture of ideology and self-interest means that…