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Call for Participation and Seminar Proposals for Online Seminars by the ICEA
Read more: Call for Participation and Seminar Proposals for Online Seminars by the ICEAModels, Experiences, and Debates to Rethink Self-Management in the 21st Century The Institute of Economic and Self-Management Sciences (ICEA), in preparation for its upcoming General Assembly, is organizing a series of online seminars to be held in the coming months (provisionally between 12 and 14 December 2025). These meetings aim to promote the exchange of…
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Article responding to criticism by Jasper Bernes of the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
Read more: Article responding to criticism by Jasper Bernes of the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’Hermann Lueer recently published a review on Jasper Bernes’ book The Future of Revolution. Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising on the blog Left Wing Communism – NOT an infantile disorder. In this review he comments on Bernes’ engagement with The Fundamental Principles of Communist Distribution and Production by the Group…
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New Book Explains how to Transition to a World of Radical Abundance
Read more: New Book Explains how to Transition to a World of Radical AbundanceDrawing on their work building public-common partnerships through the action research organisation Abundance Kai Heron, Keir Milburn, and Bertie Russell have written the exciting new book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Al Campbell uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Al Campbell uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with Al Campbell on “Protagonistic Planned Socialism (PROPLASO) and Human Development” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below. For Al Campbell’s personal website, which has an overview of all his publications, click here.
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New translation by Cibcom of article on the economic planning of ice cream production in the Soviet Union
Read more: New translation by Cibcom of article on the economic planning of ice cream production in the Soviet UnionThe Cibcom collective has recently translated the article Soviet Scoops: Ice Cream with Socialist Characteristics by the blog The Stalin Era into Spanish. The article examines the history, development and issues with ice cream production in the Soviet Union in order to examine its implications for how consumption could be organised in a post-capitalist society…
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Jason Hickel promotes democratizing the economy in the Spanish Parliament
Read more: Jason Hickel promotes democratizing the economy in the Spanish ParliamentJason Hickel in a recent address at the Beyond Growth Conference in the Spanish Parliament discusses economic politics in the polycrisis, highlighting the fundamentally undemocratic nature of capitalist production and distribution. Hickel refers to the imbalance of an over-production of unnecessary products and a chronic underproduction of necessary goods such as clean energy, affordable housing…
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Walther Zeug LinkedIn Post on why Absolute Sustainability Assessment Means Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Walther Zeug LinkedIn Post on why Absolute Sustainability Assessment Means Democratic Economic PlanningWalther Zeug recently attended the 1st International Conference on Absolute Sustainability – “From Less Bad to Good Enough”, hosted by the Centre for Absolute Sustainability at DTU Sustain. As a reflection on the conference he published a post on his LinkedIn account, arguing that Absolute Sustainability Assessments (in contrast to conventional Life Cycle Assessments) has…
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INDEP Conference Report by PEP
Read more: INDEP Conference Report by PEPMembers of the Participatory Economy Project attended and gave presentations at the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning’s first ever in-person conference in Montreal in July 2025. In this recent episode of their podcast, PEP Talk, they discuss what they thought of the event.
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná uploadedThe recording of our recent INDEP online talk with Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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Doug Henwood’s Behind the News has an episode on Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Doug Henwood’s Behind the News has an episode on Democratic Economic PlanningBehind the News, a radio show hosted by writer and political analyst Doug Henwood for about 30 years, has aired an episode on Democratic Economic Planning. In the episode, he receives Aaron Benanav on his recent article published in New Left Review and Jerome Nikolai Warren on the potential of cooperatives. The episode can be…
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New article by La Banda Vaga on the fundamental principles of democratic economic planning and distribution
Read more: New article by La Banda Vaga on the fundamental principles of democratic economic planning and distributionThe anarchist and council communist group La Banda Vaga writes about the fundamental principles of democratic economic planning. Their new article in the German post-growth blog Postwachstum.de is based on a document published in 1930 by the Dutch Group of International Communists on the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution. The article discusses mechanisms…
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New article on implementing a green-digital transition through commons-based decentralized planning
Read more: New article on implementing a green-digital transition through commons-based decentralized planningIn this article for the journal Globalizations, co-authors Pedro H. J. Nardelli and Rodrigo Santaella-Goncalves of LUT University critique market-based approaches to a green-digital transition for being based on an ecocidal capitalist system and propose that a green-digital transition can be most effectively implemented through cyber-physical commons-based decentralized planning. A summary of the article can…
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