cooperative Articles

As the three Labour councillors for Whitefoot Ward in the London borough of Lewisham, we have a very good working relationship with our local social housing provider, Phoenix Community Housing, who took over the running of the housing stock from Lewisham council in...

There we were on the Treasury select committee, doing an inquiry into the collapse of the Co-op Bank, just as had been done into Northern Rock and RBS. Chief executives past and present trooped in. They gave their versions of the takeover of the Britannia building...

Why does the Co-op pick Israeli companies to boycott? It doesn’t add up. This morning in Manchester I found myself demonstrating outside the HQ of a major supermarket chain. It wasn’t the HQ of a profiteering capitalist supermarket chain though. I was demonstrating...

As Friday night’s extraordinary opening ceremony for the 30th Olympiad unfolded it drew a line beneath the first chapter of an equally extraordinary ten year journey for Hackney and east London. It also definitively opened the next. In what seems like the blink of an...