FWD from Co-operatives UK
👩💻 Job insecurity and unfair working conditions define much of today’s tech sector – but there is another way.
🌿 Hear from:
- Richard Rowley, Agile Collective (worker-owned digital agency)
- Mollie Hanley, Open Data Services
📅 Tue 16 Sept, 10:30–12:00
🌏 Secure your place now: https://buff.ly/0w0I8oI
FWD from Co-operatives UK
👩💻 Job insecurity and unfair working conditions define much of today’s tech sector – but there is another way.
🌿 Hear from:
- Richard Rowley, Agile Collective (worker-owned digital agency)
- Mollie Hanley, Open Data Services
📅 Tue 16 Sept, 10:30–12:00
🌏 Secure your place now: https://buff.ly/0w0I8oI
Mujeres, cooperativas y colectivas solidarias. Una mirada feminista - Dra. Josefina Cendejas Guízar
"Si las reformas legislativas y las políticas no se hacen con una perspectiva de género, tampoco abonarán al avance de la igualdad sustantiva"
#cooperativas #mexico #feminista#CoopsYear#Cooperatives #rosalux
"The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and analysis on the emergence of worker-run production cooperatives in Argentina’s crisis-ridden industries. It highlights workers’ prominent role in occupying and self-managing factories that were either shut down or on the brink of closure following the economic crisis of the 1990s. The book also offers fascinating examples of how these worker-managed units were established. Argentina’s labour movement provides valuable lessons for understanding the complexities of workers’ self-management.
To better understand the economic and political conditions that led to these labour movements, it is crucial to briefly consider the historical context of labour organization in Argentina, as discussed in the book and other related sources, particularly its relationship with the state and capitalists. A special focus will be placed on ‘Peronism,’ which significantly shaped labour politics. After that, we will explore some key aspects of the book and conclude with reflections on the concept of workers’ control and its (in-)conceivability under capitalism."
https://socialistproject.ca/2025/08/workers-self-management-struggle-against-neoliberalism/
#Argentina#SelfManagement#Autogestion#Cooperatives#Cooperativism#Neoliberalism
"The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and analysis on the emergence of worker-run production cooperatives in Argentina’s crisis-ridden industries. It highlights workers’ prominent role in occupying and self-managing factories that were either shut down or on the brink of closure following the economic crisis of the 1990s. The book also offers fascinating examples of how these worker-managed units were established. Argentina’s labour movement provides valuable lessons for understanding the complexities of workers’ self-management.
To better understand the economic and political conditions that led to these labour movements, it is crucial to briefly consider the historical context of labour organization in Argentina, as discussed in the book and other related sources, particularly its relationship with the state and capitalists. A special focus will be placed on ‘Peronism,’ which significantly shaped labour politics. After that, we will explore some key aspects of the book and conclude with reflections on the concept of workers’ control and its (in-)conceivability under capitalism."
https://socialistproject.ca/2025/08/workers-self-management-struggle-against-neoliberalism/
#Argentina#SelfManagement#Autogestion#Cooperatives#Cooperativism#Neoliberalism
🌱 Solidarity Platform Cooperativism in
Latin America Report - FLACSO, Ecuador; GIZ; Fairwork 2025
🌏 https://www.ctslab.org/2025/07/01/solidarity-platform-cooperativism-in-latin-america-report/
This report analyzes the development of Platform Cooperatives in Latin America, understanding them as an alternative to the dominant corporate model in the platform economy.
#cooperatives #platformeconomy #solidarity #latinamerica #coopcycle
Catalyst Cooperative is a tech worker co-op that curates the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL). Listen to @ZaneSelvans and three of his co-owners talk about the whys and wherefores or being a worker cooperative in the tech sector. Catalyst Cooperative is a tech worker co-op that curates the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL). Listen to @ZaneSelvans and three of his co-owners talk about the whys and wherefores or being a worker cooperative in the tech sector.Cooperativismo y Tecnología
Software Libre y Telecomunicaciones, experiencias desde Brasil y México
🗓️ Miércoles 23 Julio 2025 a las 18:00
☕ En "Las 400 voces Chocolatería solidaria" - Filosofía y Letras 88, Copilco Universidad, Coyoacán, 04360 Ciudad de México, (cerca de Metro Copilco)
🌏 https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/12688748201
Coop Eita (Brasil) - Coop Tierra Común (México) - Mayfirst Coop (Int) - Tosepan - Wiki Katat (México)
#TechCoop#Mexico#Brasil#Cooperativas #cooperatives#SoftwareLibre
we're pleased to announce https://guixotic.coop, a new free software cooperative focused on gnu guix and guile cofounded by @podiki, maxim cournoyer and me. we offer services including training, commercial support, development, system administration (CI/CD, HPC), packaging -- in short, everything guix and guile.
our goal is to strengthen & expand the community, bringing in new people and organizations (our clients), supporting development work, and growing the network of organizations supporting these technologies.
could you or an organization you know of benefit from our services? email contact@guixotic.coop or contact us here!
full announcement: https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00113.html
Thanks to @anaulin and @internetross for co-facilitating a conversation with the internal folks who facilitated the #unionization efforts at Exygy, a #Software#Consultancy.
We may publish some notes on the zinc.coop website; but my take-aways were:
- One on Ones are S-Tier Skill
- Work with the CWA! They know their shit!
- Take the time to build the Super Majority!
- Stay Positive
- Develop your understanding of Solidarity (Rec for #OnSolidarity by #HaymarketBooks - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2252-on-solidarity)
If you have recommendations for further conversations re: Organizing and Mobilizing towards Justice in Software Organizations, please send them my way!
Thanks to @anaulin and @internetross for co-facilitating a conversation with the internal folks who facilitated the #unionization efforts at Exygy, a #Software#Consultancy.
We may publish some notes on the zinc.coop website; but my take-aways were:
- One on Ones are S-Tier Skill
- Work with the CWA! They know their shit!
- Take the time to build the Super Majority!
- Stay Positive
- Develop your understanding of Solidarity (Rec for #OnSolidarity by #HaymarketBooks - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2252-on-solidarity)
If you have recommendations for further conversations re: Organizing and Mobilizing towards Justice in Software Organizations, please send them my way!
Varieties of Worker Cooperatives in Tech
https://platform.coop/blog/varieties-of-worker-cooperatives-in-tech/
we're pleased to announce https://guixotic.coop, a new free software cooperative focused on gnu guix and guile cofounded by @podiki, maxim cournoyer and me. we offer services including training, commercial support, development, system administration (CI/CD, HPC), packaging -- in short, everything guix and guile.
our goal is to strengthen & expand the community, bringing in new people and organizations (our clients), supporting development work, and growing the network of organizations supporting these technologies.
could you or an organization you know of benefit from our services? email contact@guixotic.coop or contact us here!
full announcement: https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00113.html
Epic thread @sarahtaber
Thanks @blaise for the pointer
#cooperatives #HowToCitizen
#history https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/114797147296327900
"Nu neoliberalisme als ideologie failliet gaat, daagt voor de coöperatie de wederopstanding. Een eigentijds verlangen naar redelijkheid, groen, zeggenschap, solidariteit en bestaanszekerheid brengt burgers samen."
Marcia Luyten in haar Volkskrant artikel "Samen een vuist maken tegen roofzuchtig kapitalisme: het kan, bewijzen de coöperaties"
https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-bc1cc5f2/
Building a #SolidarityEconomy in Indonesia: Peasant #Cooperatives and Urban Poor UniteA space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
