mutualism Articles

Last year thousands of people – including many of you – rallied around to support the continuation of the link between the Co-operative party and Britain’s largest co-op, the Co-operative Group. In the next few weeks, members of the Co-operative Group have the...

Reform must maintain cooperative principles — Even for a seasoned cooperator it can be difficult to have faith that the Co-operative Group can survive its latest setback – another £400m black hole in the Co-operative Bank books revealed last month. With 70 per cent of...

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...

The government’s support for mutuals appears skin-deep Karin Christiansen —In the nine months I have been general secretary of the Cooperative party, I have been listening to coalition pronouncements on mutuals with great interest and growing confusion. At first there...