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After putting in a Freedom Of Information request, the minutes for the East Sussex County Council Pension Fund Investment Panel - from 1974 to 2007 - have been released for the first time. As I noted in my analysis of the minutes:

After writing a couple of blog posts (one and two) about how Cranks could be clearer about its politics for its members and the general public, I was happy to see when I went in the other day that there were three sheets of paper on the wall explaining the politics of the place.

As I said in my last blog post, after I sent an email to the Cranks mailing list we discussed the politics of Cranks in one of our bi-weekly meetings. I haven't been able to post these thoughts up sooner because I have been offline for a month building a roundhouse with Tony Wrench in South West Wales. More on that later, but for now..

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I have written extensively about what is wrong with the mainstream media and the benefits of co-operative ways of working. The article below outlines one of the most interesting alternatives or synergies that I have come across - The Dominion paper based in Canada.

My friend, Rebecca Napier-Moore, has written the following paper about power within workers' co-operatives in the UK. We interviewed workers together for our different papers (see mine here) and it was an absolute pleasure to work with her. In my opinion, not only is her paper extremely well-written and concise but it also intelligently draws on - and challenges - the academic literature surrounding Steven Lukes' 3 dimensions of power in relation to the workers' co-operatives that we visited. It received an A+ mark. I am putting the paper below for you to read but you can also find it online as a Word Document or as a pdf.