11th September 2018 Promoting local, co-operatively-owned campaigning journalism Richard McCready Political Officer How do we ensure that technological, cultural and economic changes empower people rather than oppress them? This was the task which Jeremy Corbyn set himself at a recent lecture on the media in Edinburgh.
20th June 2018 Water is an everyday necessity. It ought to be be owned by us all Alex Sobel Despite water being an everyday necessity, bill payers have no say over who pipes it to their taps, where they pay their tax and who pockets the profits.
11th June 2018 ‘Why can’t it be a co-op?’ It’s time to advocate for large-scale mutualisation Luke Pollard Labour & Co-operative MP for Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Labour needs to be very cautious that in ending rail privatisation we are not simply holding the assets on ice for the Tories to re-privatise later.
13th March 2018 Why ownership matters Dave Watson Head of Policy and Public Affairs at UNISON Scotland and Co-operative party member New ideas on economic policy are being applied in a practical way in Scotland, with a Labour Leadership which understands that ownership matters.
1st March 2018 Let’s mark 3 years of privatisation failure on East Coast by bringing our railways back into public ownership Anna Birley Policy Officer Three years ago today, the Conservative Government privatised the publicly-owned East Coast Trains. The years since are a reminder of why only democratic public ownership is fit to deliver the railway the travelling public deserve
6th February 2018 Yesterday was the day rail privatisation finally descended from scandal into farce Archived: Ben West Communications & Digital Officer Chris Grayling's revelations of franchising chaos on both of the UK's major InterCity rail routes reveal a system no longer fit for purpose.
8th January 2018 Government plans put hundreds of community bus services at risk, MPs warn Anna Heard Archived: Ben West Communications & Digital Officer Upcoming changes in Department for Transport regulation could put an end to dozens of community-run bus services, a report by the Transport Select Committee has found
30th November 2017 A public future for Scotland’s railways Neil Bibby Labour & Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland A new report by the TTSA and Common Weal is a timely and persuasive renewal of the case for public ownership.
20th November 2017 Why Britain’s big energy companies are celebrating Christmas early – and what we can do about it. Archived: Ben West Communications & Digital Officer Anna Heard As the UK's big energy companies celebrate record profits, an energy co-operative in New Zealand is showing what happens when we make customers the shareholders.
29th March 2017 Ownership matters, because who owns a business dictates in whose interests it is run. Claire McCarthy Former General Secretary For a long time, progressives have rightly been concerned about ownership in the public sector and with who owns our public services. But delivering our vision of a fairer, more equal society means paying attention to who owns the private sector too.
15th February 2017 Postcards from Germany: an energy revolution, and how it happened Archived: Ben West Communications & Digital Officer In recent months, a delegation from the Party, in partnership with FES, investigated how co-operative and mutual approaches are key to Germany’s economic success. So what are the lessons for the UK? In the first of a two part series, Communications Officer Ben West looks at what we can learn from Germany's community energy revolution.
30th January 2017 Campaign win: all aboard the People’s Bus Service in Witney Archived: Ben West Communications & Digital Officer After a year of work by local Labour & Co-operative councillors to save local bus services for the community, the People’s Bus service in Witney carries its first passengers today