We would like to inform you about selected events and activities taking place over the coming weeks. More details will follow shortly. Film Series on the Spanish Civil War Throughout July, BrotfabrikKINO will host a film series marking the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish Revolution. The program features three weeks […]
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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We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our supporting members. Their donations make it possible for us to act largely independently in the political sphere, to research the Labour Time Calculation, and to bring it to the public. Anyone who takes out a supporting membership with a self-selected contribution will receive a
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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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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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We’ve noticed that it’s not always very easy to use our app. That’s why we want to redesign it so that it becomes super simple to use. The existing functionalities will remain in place. This opens up entirely new possibilities: imagine a neighborhood network, a self-organized festival, or a commune where care work is socialized!
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We support the call for the nationwide gathering of the collective economy and wish all participating enterprises and fellow organizers a successful meeting! Surrounded by capitalist competition, it is always a challenge to develop and implement solidarity-based alternatives. Nevertheless, in recent years and decades, new collectives have been founded throughout Germany and in a wide
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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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