Comment Gareth Thomas: Crunch credit union vote shows Co-op MPs working with the Labour leadership to help revive the centre-left Later on tonight, the Treasury will further stack the decks against those mutuals and co-operatives providing financial… Gareth Thomas 12th December, 2016, 12:30 pm
Comment As welfare reforms bite, councils and credit unions can help people avoid the debt trap This is one of a series of articles to mark Shared Economy, Shared Power, the Co-operative Party annual… Phil Bale 11th September, 2016, 7:00 am
Comment John McDonnell: As we fight austerity, let’s boost enterprise by giving staff a stake in the companies for which they work This is one of a series of articles to mark Shared Economy, Shared Power, the Co-operative Party annual… John McDonnell 10th September, 2016, 11:00 am
Comment New politics should be based on giving communities the ability to help themselves The latest Office of National Statistics figures showing the growing number of Britons earning less than the living… Andrew Pakes 15th October, 2015, 2:41 pm
Comment Competing payday lenders ‘out of existence’: why we should push to treble membership of credit unions The rise of payday lenders has been one of the most destructive elements of the cost of living… Gareth Thomas 11th October, 2014, 10:37 am
Comment Fair Credit for the NHS Last year in Newcastle I joined a local Sharkstoppers organising group put together by Movement for Change in… Alison Baxter 4th April, 2014, 2:47 pm
Comment Miliband’s plan: Taxing the predators to fund the producers Back in 2011, Ed Miliband made a conference speech that was less than well received. It was perceived… Mark Ferguson 17th October, 2013, 10:23 am