We live in a time of multiple crises caused by capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, racism, environmental destruction, individualism, inequality and fascism. Violence, suffering and trauma are universal. We know co-operation, co-operative behaviour, values and models can restore life, hope and ways Read more…
Readings and discussion of themes from Tracksuits, Traumas and Class Traitors by D.P. Hunter, hosted by Solidarity Economy Association 3-5pm, Sunday 29 November, 2020 Practices of solidarity economy and transformative justice are woven into the social fabric of communities at Read more…
Since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of local Mutual Aid groups have set up across the UK. These groups generally organise at a grass-roots level, for example, creating buddy systems to support people who are isolating due to Read more…
Today, 19 July 2020, is the 8th anniversary of the start of the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria. On 19 July 2012, people took to the streets in Kobane, a predominantly Kurdish city in northern Syria, and declared their autonomy Read more…
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…