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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The debate about a socialist planned economy seems to have definitively returned. Here, we present a small, selective excerpt from the German debate in order to perhaps provide some readers with an easy introduction to the discussions. A few weeks ago, Die «Zeit» picked up on the planned economy debate and addressed it in its
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Abstract How can private reproductive labor be socialized under socialism? The text analyzes the political, cultural, and structural particularities of private reproductive labor and shows how labor-time calculation could serve as a tool to recognize it economically and, consequently, politically. Introduction to Labor-Time Calculation Labor-time calculation, as developed by the “Group of International Communists” (GIC)
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We warmly invite you to a film screening followed by a discussion on January 29: Film: Ohne Chefs – Demokratie bei der Arbeit (2025) Some people cannot imagine a life without work. Even fewer can imagine work without a boss. Yet there are already projects today that function entirely without bosses. We embark on a
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Untergrundblättle pays tribute with the article “Die vergessene Logik des Kommunismus” to the “Fundamental Principles” formulated by Jan Appel in prison in 1925 — the central theoretical text on labour-time accounting. The article by Herman Lueer is available in German and English and is highly recommended reading! We will bring the year to a dignified
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We have written an article that was published in the December issue of Contraste: “The recovered enterprises in Argentina are in crisis. For this reason, a solidarity committee has been formed.” You can read it in German and Spanish. You can also find it in our list of publications.
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Robin Hahnel, the founder of the planned economic model Parecon, criticized labor-time calculation in his May 2025 article “Labor Time Accounting: A Postmortem”: “The point is that labor time is not the only real cost of making different goods and services. There are environmental costs, which along with labor costs, should clearly be accounted for
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