Latest News
The latest from our campaigns, projects, events and more
Building Communities of Co-operation in Oxford
Wednesday 26 June18:00 – 19:30Oxford Town Hall, UKFREE but registration ...
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Our statement of solidarity as global hunger strikers celebrate end of Ocalan’s isolation
The Solidarity Economy Association wish to send our heartfelt solidarity and ...
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Co-operative societies essential for communal life in Rojava
The latest article to be reposted on our Co-operation in Mesopotamia website is ...
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Why we’re supporting the Women’s Strike 2019 – and you should too
We at the Solidarity Economy Association are supporting the Women’s ...
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SEA becomes co-organiser of NESI Global Forum in Malaga – the ‘Davos of the New Economy’
We’re excited to share that we’re once again co-organisers of the ...
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UK co-operators in largest show of political solidarity ‘in decades’ at demonstration in support of Rojava
Members of co-ops including Calverts, Radical Routes, Birmingham Bike Foundry ...
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Sponsored places: Cooperation Jackson Residential, May 2019
We’re really excited to have teamed up with our friends at Stir to Action ...
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Call for co-operators to attend London demonstration in solidarity with Rojava and its co-operative economy
Call for co-operators to attend London demonstration in solidarity with Rojava ...
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Pilot project launched as part of SEA’s Mapping the Solidarity Economy work
Between October 2018 and early 2019 we’re piloting a community mapping ...
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SEA welcomes closure of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre in Oxfordshire
The Solidarity Economy Association joins fellow Oxford-based organisations ...
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Special event: SEA to host Shareable’s Tom Llewellyn for Sharing Oxford workshop
Wednesday 21 November 18:15 – 20:30 Makespace Oxford We’re ...
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#NotHim, not now, not ever. Statement on the election of Jair Bolsonaro
The Solidarity Economy Association is a signatory to the following ...
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Four new women’s co-operative projects open in Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (Rojava)
The latest article to be reposted on our Co-operation in Mesopotamia ...
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Argentine co-op movement develops free app for social & solidarity economy
This article was originally published by Anca Voinea in the Co-op News ...
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SEA welcomes Tim Berners-Lee’s ‘radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web’
Fast Company reported exclusively this week on the launch of Inrupt, a ...
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Seven ways to build the solidarity economy
This article was first published in openDemocracy. Author Emily Kawano is a ...
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New insights into history of UK worker co-op movement revealed thanks to successful project
New insights into the history of the UK’s worker co-op movement have been ...
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We’ve got a new home – at Makespace Oxford
We’re excited to announce that SEA have moved premises, and we’re ...
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Mapping the co-operative / solidarity economy: Our sessions at Open:2018
We’re pleased to say we’ll be attending Open:2018 again this year, ...
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Free workshops to help UK co-ops support Northern Syria’s transition to co-operative economy
We’re calling for UK co-ops to support Northern Syria’s transition to a ...
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Co-op College members vote unanimously to support growth of co-operative economy in Northern Syria
Members of the Co-operative College have voted unanimously in favour of ...
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Paul Singer, economist and founder of Brazil’s Workers’ Party, dies aged 86
Paul Singer, Austrian economist and tireless promoter of the solidarity economy ...
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Emerging from #CTRLShift2018 in Wigan: On the road to progressive change
Last week, the culmination of eight months of collaborative effort came ...
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Taking Joint Control – New report launches Trade Union and Co-operative Solutions for Decent Work
With 7.1 million workers engaged in ‘precarious’ employment and 77 per cent ...
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Why growing the solidarity economy is the best strategy for improving the socio-economic situation of women and girls everywhere
Capitalism is built on inequality – gender, race, class and species – ...
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SEA joins major collaboration to hold emergency summit for radical social change in light of Brexit
The Solidarity Economy Association has joined a major collaboration of 30 ...
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Co-ops, cultural commoning and more: Imagine Festival pre-launch sign-up opportunity
Ahead of the launch of Imagine Festival in Belfast, people with an interest in ...
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Standing in solidarity with Afrin
The Solidarity Economy Association has been documenting and publishing ...
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We’re recruiting an outreach worker for our Open Data & Mapping Project
We’re really excited to announce that we’re looking for someone to join our ...
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Catch us at Oxford Real Farming Conference this week
If you’re heading to the Oxford Real Farming Conference this week, make ...
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Pre-order our collaborative issue of Stir magazine now!
We’re really excited to announce we’ve collaborated with STIR ...
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First ever conference of co-operatives held in Northern Syria
The UK co-operative movement has sent a message of solidarity to its ...
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New film to explore the quiet revolution transforming our food system
A new film about farming and food sovereignty in the UK is set to be ...
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ICYMI: Transforming our food system with A People’s Food Policy
A coalition of grassroots food and farming organisations has launched ‘A ...
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STIR magazine on community wealth building available to preorder
Latest STIR magazine focuses on community wealth building ...
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Celebrating 20 years of intercontinental solidarity and the Lima Declaration
RIPESS marks 20th anniversary of Lima Declaration The first ...
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Institute for Solidarity Economics becomes the Solidarity Economy Association!
We’re excited to announce that we are officially relaunching ...
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SEA pledges to keep volunteering voluntary
To mark National Volunteers Week we’re joining over 650 charities and ...
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International Municipalist Summit to be held in Barcelona
“In the face of hate, walls and borders, we’ll build global networks of ...
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International event on mapping the solidarity economy
SEA’s Matt Wallis was recently invited to spend a week in Italy with an ...
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Inspiring ideas for a new economy from platform co-operatives
Open2017-data-handout A month ago we joined around 300 others at Open:2017, the ...
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It’s here! Our special issue of STIR magazine
We’re really excited to say that the Winter issue of STIR magazine is now ...
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Join us in Manchester for Ways Forward 5
Friday 20th January 09:30 – 16:30 Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester ...
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Stand in solidarity with Greece’s small farmers this Christmas
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support Origin Club, a social ...
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New report from Co-ops UK on the effect of Brexit on co-operatives
In the wake of the recent UK referendum result in which the British public ...
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