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Roughly 19 million people live in England’s rural communities, some 17% of the population. Over the last year, I have chaired a small group of members on the Co-operative Party rural commission who have explored the challenges that rural…
Nearly 100 years ago, the John Lewis Partnership was created after the founder's son, John Spedan Lewis, saw that he, his father and his brother earned £26,000 a year, while the rest of the staff shared £16,000 between them. In Lewis’ very…
Modern slavery and human trafficking are two of societies biggest ills – condemning people to lives of misery and often death. With recent data from the Anti-Slavery International revealing there are 49.6 million current victims of modern…
Rachel Reeves give a speech at the Co-op Party conference in Leeds last weekend. The Shadow Chancellor spoke highly of the positive impact that co-operatives have on communities and economies throughout the UK and pledged the next Labour…
Millions in our country can’t afford to eat and can’t afford to heat our homes, the markets are plunging, and the climate emergency continues to threaten our planet. We seem to be living through a period of perpetual crisis – so it’s no…
Matt Wrack has warned that workers are facing a "scale of hardship I have never seen" as wages fail to keep pace with rapidly rising inflation, describing how he has seen the firefighters he represents using food banks. Speaking at a…
LBC’s James O’Brien recently interviewed RMT general secretary Mick Lynch on his Full Disclosure podcast. Lynch said something that, as a co-operative movement activist, I thought I had heard many times, but I then realised that I had only…
Here at the Co-operative Party, we have just marked an incredible 95 years of our partnership with the Labour Party. At the time of signing our electoral agreement, the Co-operative Party stood its own candidates and had its own MPs and…
High quality, pride-worthy and affordable housing must be a fundamental objective for our government, community leaders and social investors. This is challenging in itself, but it must also come with a wave of creativity to ensure that…
On Thursday, the government will be publishing its much-anticipated energy security strategy, and with it comes an important opportunity to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, the climate emergency and our reliance on Russian gas and oil…
Nearly 30 years ago, a significant change to the Italian economy was quietly taking place. The then-Italian Minister for Industry, Giovanni Marcora, established a ground-breaking law with the aim of saving businesses and jobs across Italy…
Building community power is a politics of empowerment. It needs a new settlement, where democratic power lies with local communities rather than top-down reorganisation, opaque backroom deals and remote decision-making. We need to tackle…
