Local communities
Local Government should do much more to deliver power and ownership of local services to the communities that depend on them. We believe that community-based and new mutual organisations have a vital role to play in running local services, tackling crime and anti-social behaviour, engaging young people and regenerating run-down neighbourhoods.
Latest articles on Local communities
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Why open source software is important to the co-operative movement (10 Nov 2009)
Co-operative Party Youth National Committee member Joe Anderson says open source software reflects traditional co-op values Our manifesto recognises the importance of the community-based development of software that the open source software movement champions. When you get a piece of software, why is it that more often than not, you lack access to its source [...]
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Primarily missing the point (12 Sep 2009)
The debate on primaries distracts us from real efforts to include the public in our democracy, writes Martin Tiedemann Much has been made in recent weeks of the benefits or otherwise of primaries in choosing our elected representatives. Questions of who pays, who votes and who is left out crop up time and again. It’s [...]
