Organising for Ownership: How communities can resist asset-stripping — Hazel Sheffield

Hazel Sheffield on resisting modern forms of enclosure to bring our civic infrastructure back to life

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Redesigning Care: The potential of people-powered research to co-create care co-operatives — Rachel Piper

how a democratic model of social care can restore agency to workers and users alike

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Pride in Work? Confronting the root cause of economic decline — Siôn Whellens and Jonny Gordon-Farleigh

the authors argue that only by rooting capital and power in the hands of local workers can we move beyond "decorating decline" toward a truly resilient economy.

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Q&A: Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People — with authors Gail Ramster and Jo-Anne Bichard

design researchers Gail Ramster and Jo-Anne Bichard make the case for public toilets as vital – and too often neglected – public health infrastructure

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Membership Nation: Interview with James Blake, Chief Executive of the Youth Hostel Association

we explore the organisation’s democratic heritage and what a new movement for the Youth Hostel Association could look like today

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Open to All: How youth hostels changed the world

an excerpt from Duncan M Simpson’s 2016 book tracing the radical roots of the youth hostel movement

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Profile: Rowland Road Play Patch