We would like to inform you about selected events and activities taking place over the coming weeks. More details will follow shortly. Film Series on the Spanish Civil War Throughout July, BrotfabrikKINO will host a film series marking the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish Revolution. The program features three weeks […]
Recently, we published a longer article on “Syndicalism and Labour-Time Accounting.” It was sharply criticized by Aníbal, a council communist writer. According to him, our approach is reformist: “In short, what IDA advocates stands in opposition to communism and particularly to two of its finest expressions: the KAPD and the GIC, council communists.” This criticism
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We have renamed our working time calculation app – from now on it is called Workers Control! The old name “Arbeitszeit-App” was clunky and difficult for an international audience to understand. With Workers Control, we want to make it clear that the app is a tool for decentralized self-management – under the control of workers.
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We’ve noticed that it’s not always very easy to use our app. That’s why we want to redesign it so that it becomes super simple to use. The existing functionalities will remain in place. This opens up entirely new possibilities: imagine a neighborhood network, a self-organized festival, or a commune where care work is socialized!
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How exactly is the payout factor, or “Factor of Individual Consumption” (FIC), calculated when there are different planning cycles within an economy? This question is addressed in the following PDF. We will implement the proposed solution in our app and look forward to your feedback. Download PDF
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The presentation of our app and the underlying theory at the Institute for Political Education of the Mexican Morena Party can now be viewed on YouTube (in Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/live/1JlSk087r_c?si=548FB_PrnR5gJZh7
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Next Tuesday, we will present our theory and app at a hybrid event in Mexico City. We were invited by the Institute for Political Education (INFP) of the Morena Party. Among others, the INFP’s working group on cooperatives will take part in the event. Two IDA members who work on the app will join via
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¡Ándale! – Next Tuesday, August 12, we will be presenting the labor-time calculation and our app for the first time to a Mexican audience. We have been invited by the Institute for Political Education of the ruling Morena Party (https://www.infpmorena.com.mx) and are looking forward to the exchange. More on this in the coming days
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New websiteWe have a new website! You can now find our content in German, Spanish, and English at https://arbeitszeitrechnung.org/. Take a look around and let us know if anything isn’t working. We’ll be mothballing our old blog soon; we’d like to thank the noblogs collective for their support over the past three years! Event on
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Next week, on June 26th at 7 PM, we are invited to an online event hosted by Indep (International Network for Democratic Economic Planning), where we will have the opportunity to present our working time app. We will also briefly introduce a simulation project on working time calculation that is currently starting at Boston College
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