“Co-opolitics” is a new journal to begin in 2026. As the name suggests, it’s about co-operation and politics: discussion, research, essays, investigations and comment on strengthening co-operatives, with a focus on government policy for this country’s Co-operative Movement. It is the latest publication launch from Principle 5 and publication is intended for later this year.

To finance the printed journal, crowdfunder.co.uk/co-opolitics has been launched which hopefully during April will reach the £2000 needed for a print run of issue #1. The first issue will cover:

The Labour government, with forty-three Co-operative Party MPs, promised to double the size of the co-operative sector. How’s it going?

Cooperation Town has created more than fifty food co-operatives, cutting people’s grocery bills through collective purchasing.

workers.coop has built a new independent federation of co-operatives over recent years, after a failure of existing institutions to support worker co-operatives.

Co-opolitics will be a journal devoted to the political economy of co-operation; it is intended to be open to criticism as well as celebration. If you are interested in seeing the growth of co-operatives as a viable alternative to capitalist greed, do consider supporting this.