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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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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The anarchist organization “Perspektive Selbstverwaltung” has incorporated labour time accounting into its program. We warmly welcome this, as we consider the concept necessary to build a society free of domination. Under “Transition Phase,” “PS” writes: “Equal labour time accounting independent of money: In the long term, wage labour is to be completely abolished. This means
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On our blog, we have published a review addressing the current state of the planning debate. The occasion was Prokla issue #215 on planned economy: “Democratic Planned Economy and Labour-Time Calculation.” The RAV (Republican Lawyers’ Association) invited us for an interview for the “Utopia” issue of their newsletter. You can read it here: “With an
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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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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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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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In our assessment, all possible attempts to implement systems of labor-time accounting will have to deal with deviations from the plan. The fund of public enterprises, as conceptualized below, is intended to give the working class insight into such deviations at the societal level, enabling it to reach technical and political agreements on how to
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Stefan Meretz, co-founder of the “Commons Institute” in Bonn, has subjected our concept of labor-time accounting to criticism. We would like to address the eleven points of criticism raised by Meretz individually. You can also access the article in German in our publications.
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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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