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23 June 2020  The Japan Workers’ Cooperative Union (JWCU) has been long campaigning for these legislative changes.   On June 12th of June, our

5 May 2020 Read the CICOPA Americas’ Declaration on the cooperatives’ contribution to a more cohesive and equal society following

While the world is facing an unprecedented health and economic crisis, cooperatives in industry and services are reorganizing themselves, finding

Dear friends, The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed our lives. Those of us who are healthy should consider ourselves to

The fifth edition of the Social Cooperatives International School #SCIS2019 comes to an end. Organized by CICOPA Italian member, Confcooperative

From 14 to 17 October in Kigali, Rwanda, more than 1,000 people from 95 countries participated in the 2019 edition of the

Feedback from CICOPA and IHCO joint session, held on 16 October 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda, in the framework of the

The General Assembly of CICOPA, gathered today in Kigali (Rwanda), elected Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal as the new President of CICOPA.

The social cooperative Mutamenti/Teatro Civico 14 is a theatre company founded in 2005 with the support of the municipality of

The Italian cooperative ParteNeapolis was created in Naples in 2000 through the European project “Impara l’Arte”, or “learn the art”

The ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work has published a report on how to achieve a decent and sustainable future of work for all. The Commission outlines in the report a vision for a human-centered agenda based on three pillars: people’s capabilities, institutions of work, and decent and sustainable work.

With this issue of Work Together, we want to present you with positive and sometimes heart-warming examples of cooperatives engaged in a noble and innovative battle to preserve pluralism, freedom of the press and independence, whilst assuring a democratic governance of their editorial boards.

As in many other countries, Canada’s print media are in the midst of challenging times. One of the few alternative publishers still operating is Saskatchewan’s Hullabaloo Publishing Workers Co-operative, which prints Regina’s prairie dog and Saskatoon’s Planet S Magazine, two papers that come out every other week.

Médor is a quarterly Belgian and cooperative investigative and news report magazine. It was first published in 2015 and has already received a large number of awards in recognition of the quality of its content and economic and social model. We interviewed one of the founders of Médor, Tiffany Lasserre, to get a better understanding of the advantages of the cooperative model in this highly particular and difficult sector, namely that of the journalistic press.