On Thursday, 22 October, we will be guests of Die Linke Tempelhof-Schöneberg and warmly invite you to a talk followed by a discussion: Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution – An Introduction to Labour Time Accounting as the Basis of Economic Self-Management Socialisation is currently on everyone’s lips within the political left. But what
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If you intend to live in this country for a longer period of time, you should seriously consider getting politically organized – in trade unions, political groups, or, preferably, in our initiative. We are looking for people who want to get active: organizers, creative minds, socializers, writers and editors, programmers, loud voices and quiet supporters.
We warmly invite you to a film screening followed by a discussion on 28 September: Film: Jeder Acker, jede Fabrik “Jeder Acker, jede Fabrik” (Every Field, Every Factory) is the successor to “Der laute Frühling” and a co-production of Labournet TV with the AngryWorkers. The film gathers ideas for a necessary revolution in the face
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On August 29 at 5pm UTC, the Boston College Labor-Time Economy Working Group (BC-LTEWG) will present an agent-based computer simulation model of a labor-time socialist economy. Their project brings together ideas drawn from the Group of International Communists’ 1930 Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, classical linear production theory, and modern cybernetics to implement
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Stefan Meretz recently published an essay in which he responds to a critique by Hermann Lueer1 of the book he co-authored with Simon Sutterlütti, Make Capitalism History, and in doing so once again formulates a fundamental critique of the necessity of a general economic unit of measurement („unit of account“).2 Since in the last instance
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We have found several new texts dealing with one form or another of labour-time accounting and have added them to our online bibliography. Wherever possible, we have also included download links. One notable new addition is the state socialist Karl Rodbertus and his work Zur Erkenntniss unsrer staatswirthschaftlichen Zustände (1842). In it, he assigns a
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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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The Spanish trade union CNT has invited us to write a contribution on labour-time accounting for its theoretical journal Estudios. The new issue has just been published and covers, in three volumes, the topics of revolutionary syndicalism, ecology, and economic planning. It can be ordered HERE. We are sharing our contribution, in which we discuss
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