Michael Stephenson Articles

Cooperative approaches to the economy could improve Labour’s reputation, and bring real benefit in themselves, through dispersing power and access to credit to the communities and individuals that need them, such as through establishing credit unions and remutualising Northern Rock.

Labour must not repeat the past mistake of letting the Tories introduce perverse versions of its own policies. Instead, ‘power to the people’ must become its guiding mantra, writes Michael Stephenson

Who remembers back in February when George Osborne laughingly tried to explain how a Conservative government would set up worker cooperatives to run public services?

Co-operatives and mutuals offer the best model for the reform of public service delivery