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:

Friday, October 11
– 16:00 Opening of the European Meeting of Workers’ Economy
– 16:15 – 18:15 Context of the “Workers’ Economy” 17 years later
– 18:15 – 18:45 Break
– 18:45 – 20:30 Latin American perspectives on self-management and work (speakers from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico)
– 20:45 – 22:20 Screening of the documentary Economía Col·lectiva

Saturday, October 12
– 10:00 – 12:00 Past, present, and future of struggling cooperatives: GKN (Florence), VIOME (Thessaloniki), and Kazova (Istanbul)
– 12:00 – 12:30 Break
– 12:30 – 14:15 Cooperative movement in Catalonia: XES, CGT Catalunya, Miquel Garau (historian)
– 14:30 – 16:30 Lunch
– 16:30 – 18:30 Other economies: caixa d’eines i feines (Raval, Barcelona), cooperative El Poblet (formerly CIC, Catalonia), IDA (Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting, Berlin)
– 18:30 – 18:45 Break
– 18:45 – 20:30 Self-management and ecology, self-management and agriculture, energy transition. GKN, Fuorimercato, Palestinian Agricultural Cooperative (videoconference)
– 20:30 – 23:00 Light meal (“tapas”) and collective exchange

Sunday, October 13
– 10:00 – 12:00 Self-management and the development of cooperatives after conflict (clients, suppliers… production model… gender relations… ecological perspectives…) Speakers: Cooperative Descontrol, Flavio (Brazil), Andrés (Argentina)