Our article “Abolition of Forced Labor” has been published in the current issue of Contraste. In this piece, we respond to a critique by Stefan Meretz of labor-time accounting and try to clear up some misunderstandings.

Our explainer video on labor-time accounting is now available not only in German, but also in English and Spanish. A Polish version is already in production, and French and Italian versions are planned.

On Thursday, September 5th at 7pm, we will be guests at techfrombelow in Berlin to present our labor-time app. This app is designed to enable grassroots economic coordination “from below.”
⚠️ Please note the new location: The event will take place at the aquarium (Südblock at Kotti).

On September 20th at 7pm, we will once again host our regulars’ table at Kleinod in Neukölln.

We’d also like to draw your attention to “Vital Signs”, a new magazine for revolutionary perspectives in the health sector. In their presentation, the Angry Workers also discuss labor-time accounting:

“We know that, in a time of campaigns like ‘Enough is Enough’ or ‘Don’t Pay’, we seem far removed from ‘workers’ decrees’ or ‘dual power’. But we believe that while the objective conditions are overripe – given climate change, looming financial and economic crises, and a clear trend toward more wars – the subjective forces of the class are also emerging. They appear in scattered forms, from the general increase in strike experience to niche debates about the revolutionary transition and labor-time accounting, to the reemergence of the ‘organization debate’. We think that in this moment we need new political experiments within essential economic sectors that can ground these debates, confront them with class reality, and channel them into actual struggles and new organizational initiatives. You cannot build the party of insurrection out of nothing.”