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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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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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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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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Can you do without Christmas presents? Do you have a few spare coins? Then donate to the Argentine print shop “Nueva Era”! Let’s show that international solidarity is stronger than Milei’s far-right and ultra-liberal government! “Nueva Era” deserves all the support it can get, as it is one of the few newly recovered workplaces in
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Exciting film premiere by the Berlin Cooperative Network! “On November 5th at 6 PM, we’re hosting a screening of the documentary »Ohne Chefs« at FSK Kino. Afterward, there will be a Q&A with the director, Mario Buchbach, moderated by Café Cralle.”
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The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation offers training materials on “Living Utopias!” (in german). It’s great that labour time calculation – the ‘new kid on the block’ – is also included! Click on the yellow plus signs to learn more. Also highly recommended: the article on self-management and workplace occupations! (in english).
Next Friday, September 5, we will be guests at FAU-Hamburg’s “Collective Friday” to present the working time calculation. We look forward to the exchange with the collective enterprises! Friday, September 5, 2025 – Dinner starting at 7 PM, followed by content at 8 PM – at the Libertarian Cultural and Action Center ‘Schwarze Katze’, Fettstr.
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Next Tuesday, we will present our theory and app at a hybrid event in Mexico City. We were invited by the Institute for Political Education (INFP) of the Morena Party. Among others, the INFP’s working group on cooperatives will take part in the event. Two IDA members who work on the app will join via
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¡Ándale! – Next Tuesday, August 12, we will be presenting the labor-time calculation and our app for the first time to a Mexican audience. We have been invited by the Institute for Political Education of the ruling Morena Party (https://www.infpmorena.com.mx) and are looking forward to the exchange. More on this in the coming days
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