Thinking about Social Infrastructure ‘From the Cage’ — Luke Billingham

Youth and community worker Luke Billingham makes the case for these valuable yet contested inner-city sites of sociality and play.

New series: Conversations on Contemporary Communitarianism

STIR’s editor Jonny Gordon-Farleigh speaks to writer and civic advocate Pete Davis about why the decline of local clubs and associations represents a crisis of democracy and what can be done to transform a "gaseous" society into a culture of solidarity.

Cometh the Communitarians: A Roadmap for Social Democracy Today — Ed Wallis

Ed Wallis argues that the long Labour lineage of communitarian thinking could provide the Left with the direction it requires, in an edited extract from ‘Social Democracy Now: Why communitarianism provides the roadmap the left needs today’, published by the Fabian Society in April 2025.

Back our Social Clubs: Calling for a 21st Century Club Charter

A new report by the Centre for Democratic Business, part of a national movement to rebuild Britain’s social club movement for a new generation.

Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning

An excerpt from Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago’s 2022 book, introduced by Matthew Thompson.

The Solidarity Economy — An interview with Tehila Sasson

Historian Tehila Sasson challenges the traditional view that neoliberalism originated on the political right, arguing instead that its roots run through the British Left and the growth of international nonprofits that unintentionally helped legitimise the neoliberal project.

Democratic Business Summit 2025

Panellists from the upcoming Summit discuss how more awareness of democratic business can transform our broken economy.

“Energy is only as democratic as we make it” — Q&A with Ellie Radcliffe, Carbon Co-op

We speak to Ellie Radcliffe from Carbon Co-op's Energy Commons team about the link between energy democracy and economic democracy, and the need to centre communities at the heart of a just energy transition.