Open Coop Development Agency
Unlike their traditional for-profit counterparts, Open Cooperatives are oriented towards the common good in their statutes.
Civil Power and the Partner State
John Restakis speaks about the Civil Economy as a contrast to the the crisis that has gripped Europe, and the western democracies, over the last 30 years.
From basic income to social dividend: sharing the value of common resources
It’s time to examine and broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income. An article by Rajesh Makwana, from Share the World's Resources
Syriza’s new plan for economic development
P2P Lab Founder Vasilis Kostakis reviews Syriza’s new plan for economic development and how it relates to the P2P/Commons movement.
“The City as Commons” with Professor Christian Iaione
"The race to the bottom that globalization has triggered is no longer an available strategy for a knowledge economy system like Mantova." Michel Bauwens interviews professor Christian Iaione, a facilitator of Bologna's Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons.
A New Alignment of Movements? Part II: Strategies for a Convergence of Movements
Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together? Can there be a greater convergence and collaboration in fighting the pathologies of neoliberalism? Part two of two.
A New Alignment of Movements? Part I: The General Challenge
Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together? Can there be a greater convergence and collaboration in fighting the pathologies of neoliberalism? Part one of two.
Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structures and Tools
In this feature packed article, Josef Davies-Coates talks about the inspiration, legal structures and tools that can help Open Cooperativism become the vibrant movement it deserves to be.
Toward an Open Co-Operativism:
The P2P economy needs bridges between cooperative culture and the organizational forms that can sustain it and advance the general well-being of society.
Share the World’s Resources, a conversation with Rajesh Makwana
"Given this rich and still evolving conversation on the role of the commons in society, a definition of what exactly a commons transition would entail is best expressed from a broad and inclusive perspective."