We are very pleased that Helge Döhring from the Institute for Syndicalism Research will pay us a visit to talk about economics in anarcho-syndicalism. On July 26th at the Baiz! — Anarcho-Syndicalism and Free Society. Sketches of a Transformation Economy and society in anarcho-syndicalism are based on socialized enterprises, consistent federalism, and mutual aid. So-called
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We present the labour time calculation in the current issue 1/2025 of “express – newspaper for socialist workplace and trade union work.” You can also find our text in German in our list of publications.
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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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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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A few days ago, we hosted Dario Azzellini in Berlin and spoke with him about council democracy and working-time accounting. We are sharing the audio recording of the event with you here: Introduction: 0:00Input Dario Azzellini: 01:57Input IDA: 26:55
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As every month, we would like to share some activities and news with you: We have now compiled all the articles from Jungle World’s 2023 discussion series on working time accounting into a brochure and added a foreword. Definitely worth reading to get an overview of the debate! Contributions by Felix Klopotek, Philip Broistedt &
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We contacted over one hundred collective enterprises across the country to find out whether they are interested in the concept of labour-time accounting. We are delighted that 21 collectives have already responded. Of these, 18 expressed interest in concrete economic alternatives to capitalism and want to learn more about labour-time accounting. In addition, 17 collectives
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Council Democracy and Social Self-Organization – IDA in Discussion with Dario Azzellini 📅 May 15, 2024, 7:00 PM📍 Café Kotti, Adalbertstraße 96B, Berlin In the history of modern revolutions, uprisings, and strikes, the spontaneous formation of (workers’) councils has occurred again and again. Especially when established structures of power collapse or become paralyzed, people have
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We Take Over! Workplace Occupations and Workers’ Control in Latin America and Europe A better society would be distinguished, among other things, by the fact that producers have control over their products instead of laboring for the prosperity of others. A first step in this direction will be the takeover of the means of production.
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Felix Klopotek has kindly provided us with a revised transcript of the lecture he gave in January. We are pleased to publish the text: DOWNLOAD PDF
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