For its year-end issue 2024, the “nd” asked us about working time calculation. You can read the interview here:https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1187808.visionen-wie-man-den-kapitalismus-ueberwindet.html At the end of January, as in the past two years, we will once again spend a weekend in Brandenburg to discuss in depth the direction of the association for the new year. On January 17, […]
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For its 2024 year-end edition, nd asked us for an interview about working time calculation. You can read it online or download it as a PDF.
The Spanish group Cibcom has written a foreword to the Spanish translation of the second edition of the Basic Principles of Communist Production and Distribution. We document it here in a German translation: Foreword: “Basic Principles” TodayCibcom A few months ago, through recommendations from some international colleagues involved in socialist planning, we came across this
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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! Economist Guenther Sandleben describes how companies can plan using working time and how a working-time-based economy would promote transparency, efficiency, and social justice. This coming weekend we will be in London to present working time accounting at the annual Historical Materialism Conference.
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On November 8, we will present our concept of “enterprise-based planning” at this year’s Historical Materialism Conference in London. Our panel, along with others, is being organized by INDEP, the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning. https://www.indep.network/indep-organising-panels-at-21st-historical-materialism-conference/
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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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From October 11–13, the *IV European Meeting of the Workers’ Economy* will take place at Can Batlló, 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 anarcho-syndicalist union CGT.
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