SEA’s Co-operation in Mesopotamia Project has launched the Water For Rojava Fund on Saturday 16th May. Help us raise £100,000 for vital water projects in North-East Syria! The fund will help women’s co-operatives and democratic local municipalities in Rojava with Read more…
The Covid-19 crisis has inspired the creation of a myriad of new ‘solidarity funds’ across the world. Micro solidarity economies in all but name are growing more rapidly than in any recent memory. We thought it valuable to share a Read more…
The following is an extract from Owning It, an essay by Derek Wall that was originally published in DOPE Magazine, a quarterly newspaper published by Dog Section Press. Dubbed by some as the ‘Anarchist Big Issue’, Dope Magazine is distributed Read more…
Solidarity Economy Association are now working with the Lumpen Project and local grass-roots organisers in different cities to run a series of workshops focusing on class and co-operatives around the UK. The first collaboration took place in Brighton on the Read more…
Call for co-operators to attend London ‘No to NATO’ demonstration in solidarity with Rojava and its co-operative economy Tuesday 3 December, 4pm – Trafalgar Square, London Following the withdrawal of US troops in October, the people of Rojava (North-East Syria), Read more…
A coalition of Brighton’s grass-roots community groups came together to throw a full day mini festival in support of Rojava. The event took place on 2 November 2019 – World Resistance Day for Rojava. Since the Turkish military invasion and Read more…
The Newbridge Project, our partners in the North East have just wrapped up the ForSolidarity exhibition, that they have been hosting in their Gateshead studio over the last 5 weeks. The gallery acted as a backdrop for weekly solidarity lunches, Read more…
Report from the Co-ops & Class workshop held near Edinburgh, 31 August – 1 September, 2019 If we continue to replicate the class dynamics capitalist society produces within our social movements, those movements will continue to fail. – D Hunter Read more…
Yesterday, CECOP/CICOPA Europe, the European confederation of industrial and service cooperatives, published a statement of solidarity with the co-op movement in Northern Syria. SEA wholeheartedly welcomes this announcement. This afternoon, at the general meeting of the ICA in Kigali, Rwanda, Read more…
On the morning of Wednesday 9 October 2019 Turkish State forces began military attacks against Northeast Syria / Rojava, both with shelling from the air and also ground incursions and conflict across the border with Turkey. These attacks come directly Read more…