In the online edition of the current Platypus Review you can find a detailed interview with us: Democratic Labour-Time Calculation in and for the 21st Century An interview with the Initiative for Democratic Labour-Time Calculation (IDA) from Berlin about the history of the council movement, grassroots democratic economics, and concrete utopias. Download as PDF
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Our brochure “Working Time Instead of Money” is now also available in English! Economist Guenther Sandleben describes how companies can plan using working time and how a working-time-based economy would promote transparency, efficiency, and social justice. This coming weekend we will be in London to present working time accounting at the annual Historical Materialism Conference.
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On November 8, we will present our concept of “enterprise-based planning” at this year’s Historical Materialism Conference in London. Our panel, along with others, is being organized by INDEP, the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning. https://www.indep.network/indep-organising-panels-at-21st-historical-materialism-conference/
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Our brochure “Working Time Instead of Money” is now also available in English translation!Download the PDF here or request a printed copy. Even today, all businesses must plan. But how can they do this with working time instead of money? Economist Guenther Sandleben examines this question in this new IDA brochure and shows how an
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From October 11–13, the *IV European Meeting of the Workers’ Economy* will take place at Can Batlló, Barcelona. On Saturday afternoon, we will have the opportunity to present the Working Time Accounting initiative. We look forward to exchanging ideas with comrades from Europe and Latin America. The meeting is organized by the anarcho-syndicalist union CGT.
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On Sunday, October 20, at 7:30 PM, we will give an introductory lecture on working time accounting at the Bajszel. Unfortunately, we have learned that the venue was the target of an arson attack over the weekend. In the night leading up to Sunday, the door locks were glued and an attempt was made to
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Workers’ Meeting in Barcelona From October 11–13, the IV European Meeting of Workers’ Economy will take place in Barcelona. On Saturday afternoon we will have the opportunity to present the Working Time Accounting initiative. We look forward to exchanging ideas with comrades from Europe and Latin America. The meeting is organized by the CGT. Program:
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We are sharing here a new Russian translation of Paul Mattick’s Introduction to the Basic Principles of Communist Production and Distribution from 1970. This introduction is undoubtedly worth reading, but it also raises some questions and does not fully reflect the position of our association. In particular, Mattick’s view that the abolition of labor-time accounting
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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.
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