solidarity economy

Workers’ meeting in Barcelona

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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Newsletter Juli 2024

We would like to share some activities and news with you again: We have written an article in response to a critique by Stefan Meretz, co-founder of the Commons Institute. You can read our response on our blog. We hope that the article can clear up some misunderstandings: https://arbeitszeitrechnung.org/abschaffung-des-arbeitszwangs/ In mid-July, we will be represented

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New Brochure: ‘Working Time Instead of Money

We are very pleased to be able to publish a text by Guenther Sandleben as a brochure. The text is based on a lecture he gave last year at our invitation and bears the title “Working Time Instead of Money. How Enterprises Can Calculate with Working Time.” The text makes it clear that working-time accounting

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“Disco brochure published”

All articles from Jungle World’s 2023 discussion series on working time accounting have now been compiled into a brochure and provided with a foreword. Definitely worth reading if you want to get an overview of the discussion! Contributions by Felix Klopotek, Philip Broistedt & Christian Hofmann, Julian Bierwirth, Simon Sutterlütti, Jonna Klick, Hermann Lueer, ourselves,

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Survey among collective enterprises

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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IDA in discussion with Dario Azzellini (May 15)

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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Updates März 2024

Dear friends, It might be time again to share with you what’s currently happening in our association: Internal Use of the Working Time AppWe have decided to use our working time app in the day-to-day operations of the association in order to experiment with working time accounting. Last Wednesday we held an internal workshop where

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Programmers wanted

Dear Friends and Comrades, We are looking for programmers for the “Arbeitszeitapp,” which has been developed over the past three years by members of IDA. The goal of the app is to implement the theory of labor-time accounting as a web application, based on the ideas of the Group of International Communists. The potential applications

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