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As Chancellor, Gordon Brown visits India in 2007 with Co-operative Party Chair and former International Development Minister Gareth Thomas to oversee a co-operative project supported by the British government

Movement pays tribute to a political colossus

Gordon Brown will be remembered as a doughty fighter for social justice at home and abroad and one of the country’s most successful Chancellors. He was also the first Co-operative Party member in history to reach the highest political office in the land and, while the British electorate clearly delivered a damning verdict on May 6th, Co-op friends and colleagues contacted by the News are in no doubt that the former PM’s legacy is one to be proud of. Here’s what they had to say . . .
June 02 2010
Category: Politics

The People’s Supermarket is based on Park Slope Food Co-op in the United States. Pic: Paul Lowry

New York’s co-op chic takes shape in London

The Co-operative Movement is arguably enjoying its highest profile for many years, due in part to the re-branding of much of the consumer movement together with the manifesto pledges by the major political parties.
June 01 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Film co-ops offer a welcome alternative to the multiplex

Whether they meet in cinemas, member relations’ centres or down the pub, film co-operatives are flourishing. All specialise in showing films that are unlikely to make it to mainstream cinemas.
June 01 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Putting the ME into membership

The recent launch of The Co-operative Group’s membership website www.co-operative.coop/membership and the online community social network ‘Hive’ opens up exciting new opportunities for members.
May 16 2010
Category: Retail Societies

The Seven Sisters tower blocks in Rochdale already have solar panels installe

Energy co-op to offer power to the people

European funding is helping to kickstart a new co-operative that aims to produce its own electricity and tackle fuel poverty.
May 14 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Unified Grocers serves more than 3,000 stores in the USA

Stateside co-ops are big business

At the end of the Second World War, most Americans did their grocery shopping at an independently owned grocery store. However, tremendous shifts took place in food retailing in the post-war consumer boom.
May 14 2010
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Enterprise Hub helps co-ops flourish

The benefits of a £5 million UK-wide investment in the co-operative sector are being felt across the UK as the nationwide roll-out of The Co-operative Enterprise Hub gathers pace.
May 13 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Are mutuals the future of banking?

There is, arguably, no one in the UK in a better position to give an overview on the global financial crisis, nor the impact on the mutual sector, than John McFall. As a Labour/ Co-op MP, Mr McFall has been chair of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, overseeing many hours of expert witnesses’ evidence as they tried to explain and analyse the near-collapse of capitalism.
May 12 2010
Category: Politics

Steve Reed, Leader of Lambeth Council, is looking to set up the first Co-op Council

Lambeth aims to be first ‘Co-op Council’

A local authority is making plans to brand itself as the country’s first “Co-operative Council” later this year.
March 30 2010
Category: Politics

Sir Thomas Boughey’s headteacher Dave Boston hands over $500 to a representative of workers’ co-operative Tshepanang with Co-operative College Principal Mervyn Wilson looking on

Shared values unite a co-operative school with Africa

Perhaps it is only in the Co-operative Movement that an alliance of shared values could be formed between former members of the armed wing of the African National Congress and school pupils in Staffordshire.
March 29 2010
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

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