Grassroots Economic Organizing19h ago

Report praises Equal Care Co-op and similar orgs as "laboratories of social innovation."
#Coops #HomeCare

https://geo.coop/articles/laboratories-social-innovation

Laboratories of Social Innovation

Nottingham Trent University researcher Maimoona Waseem and Genevieve Shanahan of Cardiff University have recently published an academic paper that highlights Equal Care Co-op as an example of 'transformative social entrepreneurship.'

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Show threadPete Ashton21h ago

@celesteh I’m sure I’ve seen stuff in cooperative resources but brain fog is stopping me remembering, so I'm not as useful as I'd hope… Worth having a look at https://www.uk.coop/support-your-co-operative/governance-advice-and-support though there’s a lot to plough through. People Support might have some good resources too. https://peoplesupport.coop/ and paging #cooperatives #coops #WorkerCoops

And of course there’s Michael Young’s “I said DON’T build the torment nexus, you fools” piece https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

Radical Routes1d ago

Communities Conference - 12th July 2026

Annual meet up of the Diggers and Dreamers Network, including many Radical Routes #coops. A great chance to meet communities from across the UK in one place.

This is an event for anyone interested in a more co-operative and sustainable way of life. Whether you’re just getting curious about living communally or have done so for years, join us at our next event, or have a look at our archive of recorded sessions.

https://www.communitiesconference.co.uk

https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk

Btw whether or not you can wait for this July event, you can also visit the next Radical Routes Gathering, 15th – 17th May 2026 at Leintwardine,
Herefordshire .or. 13th-16th August near Brighton

https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/next-gathering/

#RadicalRoutes #DiggersAndDreamers

John Luther4d ago
Did you know that Maximum Fun is a worker-owned co-op? Hell yeah. In honor of #MayDay, throw them a few sheckles. #coops

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:buvej3law2qwlsvttufdu7up/post/3mksvad65ys2w
Limeleaf5d ago

Extra! Extra! A new episode of the Limeleaf Podcast has taken to the ether.

Stephen Giordano from Interstitial Technology and Ethan Winn from Obran Cooperative join us to talk about one of our favorite topics: worker #coops! Tune in now at https://limeleaf.coop/podcast/episode-10/ !

10. Why Your Tech Startup Should Be a Worker Co-Op — Limeleaf Worker Collective

Steve Giordano from Interstitial and Ethan Winn from Obran join us to talk about one of our favorite topics: worker co-ops! What they are, how they work, and why we think they are a great corporate structure for tech startups.

Show threadJ LouApr 28

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jlou/116483961770063948

@davevolek Workers are responsible for the results of their actions including when they are at work. Responsibility isn’t transferable even with consent, so no one who isn’t a worker should be able to own voting shares in a company. This is why all firms must be workplace democracies/worker #coops. See link:

Commune LifeApr 28

Communes and co-ops are two ways of living together. What's the difference?

#communes
#coops
#intentionalcommunities

https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/co-ops-and-communes/

Co-ops and Communes

by Raven There’s a variety of intentional community types.  Communes (income-sharing communities) are one type; co-ops (also known as cooperative households, collectives, and sometimes co-livi…

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Show threadJ LouApr 27

@crankylinuxuser @foolishowl

1. Can you elaborate on this objection to #Marxism?
2. There are arguments against #capitalism with zero reference to Marxism. Such arguments for #anticapitalism have been developed in modern terms by David Ellerman. Here is a PBS article introducing his argument for #WorkerCooperatives :
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies
3. This results from insufficient attention to inalienable democratic rights in their theory. #Marx famously rejected #HumanRights

#coops #cooperatives

Column: The case for employee-owned companies

If employees are responsible for the consequences of their actions while on the job — committing a crime, say — how can it be that they’re not responsible for the positive things they do, such as making money?

PBS News
Aaron Lord Apr 26
10 years ago while freelancing I started working on a charter for a software consultancy cooperative, where the staff owns the company and participates in all its decisions democratically. Now as more and more of us face #AI in the workplace and have trouble finding #noAI jobs elsewhere, I'm wondering whether this project can be revived with a sort of non-AI focus. Granted, we'll have to keep the #noAI manifesto offline for now, otherwise our current employers will discover our dislike for the "technology" they're forcing us to implement before we can get a revenue-stream off the ground and go all-in with the new company. #WorkerCooperative #WorkerOwnedCooperative #coops https://github.com/lorddev/devlords-org
GitHub - lorddev/devlords-org: Open-source documentation for a cooperative development agency

Open-source documentation for a cooperative development agency - lorddev/devlords-org

GitHub
Som Energia MallorcaApr 23

📢 Per fi! Després d'anys d'espera, hem signat un acord d’intercooperació amb Som Serveis Energètics ❗

Aquesta #cooperativa energètica pionera a #Mallorca, ofereix instal·lacions per a l’electrificació eficient de llars i empreses: plaques solars fotovoltaiques, sistemes d’aerotèrmia, carregadors de cotxes elèctrics, etc.

Com a soci de @SomEnergia, pots demanar auditoria i/o certificació energètiques sense necessitat d’associar-t’hi.

Més info:

👉 https://mailchi.mp/somenergia.coop/gl-mallorca-conveni-som-serveis-energetics?e=b7cd6e0c2a

#Energia #Coop #Coops