Cooperating with cooperatives: how unions need to think Bigger
In part 4 of our Own This! roundtable, David O'Connell explores the relationship between trade unions and workers' cooperatives.
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About United Taxi Cooperative
Part 3 of our Own This! roundtable looks at the United Taxi Cooperative, a worker-governed to provide affordable dispatch services while generating new lines of business that honor drivers’ craft and relationships to San Diego communities. -
Imaginary
Drowning in a deluge of images without context, words without meaning, information without distinction—this is the subjective experience in an economy of immediacy.
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Spring Publishing Highlights
A look ahead: with books from Legacy Russell, Frederic Jameson, and Robin Blackburn. -
Scaling Platform Coops to a Digital Cooperative Commonwealth
In Part 2 of our Own This! roundtable, James Muldoon reflects on the challenges of building a cooperative society through the example of the nineteenth-century US labor association, the Knights of Labor. -
Own This!: A Verso Roundtable
Introducing Verso Books' roundtable on Trebor Scholz's book, Own This! -
How do you scale a sisterhood? Learning from a women-led cooperative movement
In Part 1 of our roundtable on Trebor Scholz's book Own This! Salonie Muralidhara reflects on the challenges and rewards of scaling cooperative through her work with the Gujarat State's Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). -
Giving voice to inner screams
For the late Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, cinema was always an opportunity for dialogue with the audience. In this essay, Henry Roberts explores the aesthetics and political power of Sembène's cinematic oeuvre. -
Lenin looks back in anger
In this excerpt from Lenin’s Childhood, Isaac Deutscher creates a scene from the Twentieth CPSU Congress, 1956, where an imagined Lenin reflects on what Leninism has become.
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Lenin: Geared to One Purpose
In Not By Politics Alone, Tamara Deutscher describes a Lenin whose whole being was geared to one purpose, the purpose of the revolution. -
Realizing Africa
"Through his filmmaking and overall cinematic framework, Sembène realized the dream of a unified and borderless Africa which its political leaders have yet to produce." Matene Toure revisits Ousmane Sembène's 1988 film Camp de Thiaroye, highlighting his life's ambition of inspiring revolutionary action through film. -
Antonio Negri on Lenin's The State and Revolution
Antonio Negri argues that The State and Revolution by Lenin is the best introduction to Marxism as it places bodies within the daily revolutionary struggle.
