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By Louise Ellman MP Network Rail is a vast improvement on its failed predecessor, the privatised Railtrack, which managed to distribute profits for its shareholders while it failed in its basic duty of maintaining the railways. It was…
By Michael Stephenson The image of hundreds of people queuing to withdraw their money from Northern Rock is still one of the most dramatic to have emerged from the financial crisis. The Rock symbolises and embodies for many the failures of…
By Len Wardle When the first co-operative was established in Rochdale in 1844, its founders sought to free the poor from the adulterated food and fixed prices that were so prevalent at the time. Their brand of equitable, democratic…
By Greg Rosen / @GR1900 When Sam Perry, father of tennis star Fred, founded the first Co-operative Party headquarters ninety years ago in a London still suffering Zeppelin raids, few would have predicted that within thirty years it would be…
By Gareth Thomas MP This year, as I join with my Co-operative Party colleagues for our Annual Conference in Edinburgh, I think we can truly say that there has never been a time when the co-operative and mutual ideal has been more important…
By Martin Tiedemann / @mtiedemann / @CoopParty Hundreds of Co-operative Party members are gathering in Edinburgh for Co-operative Party Conference, the last before the likely general election. Alongside our debates and our drinks…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 To mark this weekend's Co-Operative Party annual conference, LabourList will feature exciting contrbutions from the Co-Op's MPs, PPCs, activists and supporters over the next few days. Our guest editor is…
By Andrew Pakes Politics is pretty tough at the moment. On the doorstep, in the workplace and at community events, people are worried about the economy and concerned about its impact on their family. And that has a knock-on effect for…
By Luciana Berger / @lucianaberger and Dan Whittle / @danwhittle Where we canvass in the North (St Pancras and Somers Town ward in Camden) and South (Telegraph Hill Ward in Lewisham) of London, the most important issue on the doorstep right…
By Chris Cook I remember attending a workshop in Leicester a few years ago when one of the heads of IT in a big Cooperative financial operation referred in his presentation to the 'Cooperative Advantage'. What he meant by this was that to…
By Alex Baker / @artystar On logging into Facebook several weeks ago now, I was confronted with a flurry of status updates regarding the results of the latest sabbatical elections at my student union. I say my student union, however I…
