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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The Spanish trade union CNT has invited us to write a contribution on labour-time accounting for its theoretical journal Estudios. The new issue has just been published and covers, in three volumes, the topics of revolutionary syndicalism, ecology, and economic planning. It can be ordered HERE. We are sharing our contribution, in which we discuss
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A debate is currently taking place on the transitional society leading to communism and the role of labour-time accounting within it. It was initiated by an IDA presentation at an anti-capitalist summer camp last year. This was followed by a written exchange with the group International Perspective, which can be read HERE. In the meantime,
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Around eight weeks ago, Hermann Lueer published a critique of our text on the socialization of private reproductive labor. His article, titled “Social versus Private Reproductive Labor,” accuses us of reducing the Marxist calculation of labor time to absurdity. The starting point of this critique is our consideration of how private reproductive labor—especially in the
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Simon Sutterlütti and Stefan Meretz outline in “Kapitalismus aufheben” (2018) commonism as a post-capitalist society in which commons sustain production and distribution, work is organized voluntarily, and the means of production are socialized. In his German-language review, Hermann Lueer highlights the strengths of the book while also exposing the theoretical limits of the commonist project.
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We have translated some of our texts into English and Spanish, including Felix Klopotek’s article “Future State, Socialization, Work Time Accounting,” a travel report on time banks in Spain, and various contributions to the new debate on planned economies. In our updated publication list, you can browse all contributions from the last five years; in
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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On May 16, we have been invited to the “Cybernetic Economy” thematic group of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) of the Netherlands. The meeting will take place in Rotterdam: https://cybernetica.nu/2026/03/17/aankondiging-bijeenkomst-arbeidstijdeconomie/ The thematic group was founded in 2024 and serves as a space for exchange on the cybernetic coordination of the economy in the spirit of workers’
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In recent months, we have discovered several new books and articles dealing with the calculation of working time. These include works by Schumpeter, Backhaus, Šik, Hennaut, Mandel, Camatte, and Lenin. Please feel free to send us a message if you know of any titles that we have not yet included. Bibliography: LINK
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