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Recording of INDEP online Talk with CibCom uploaded
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in VideosRead more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with CibCom uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with CibCom on Cybernetics, Planning and Democracy has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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IDA responds to Robin Hahnel’s critique of Labor-Time Accounting in new article
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in ArticlesRead more: IDA responds to Robin Hahnel’s critique of Labor-Time Accounting in new articleIDA responds to Robin Hahnel’s May 2025 critique of labor-time calculation, argueing that it remains the cornerstone of the growing debate on democratic, decentralized socialist planning.
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Postdoctoral contract on democratic economic planning in Québec
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in JobsRead more: Postdoctoral contract on democratic economic planning in QuébecThe research group on democratic economic planning at the Research Center on Social Innovation and Transformation (CRITS) at Saint Paul University in Ottawa is offering a postdoctoral contract. The objective […]
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New Future Histories episode discusses first part of Aaron Benanav’s essay series on a multi-criterial socialist economy
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in PodcastsRead more: New Future Histories episode discusses first part of Aaron Benanav’s essay series on a multi-criterial socialist economyIn this new episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Aaron Benanav, an academic at Cornell University, about the first part of Benanav’s “Beyond Capitalism” essay series […]
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Call for Papers about Alternatives to Capitalism for 2026 SASE Conference
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Read more: Call for Papers about Alternatives to Capitalism for 2026 SASE ConferenceThe Alternatives to Capitalism Network of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics has released a call for papers for the 2026 SASE conference that will be held in Bordeaux, […]
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Call for Papers: Planning for the Pluriverse/POLLEN2026
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Read more: Call for Papers: Planning for the Pluriverse/POLLEN2026On the POLLEN2026 conference under the title ‘Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology’ from June 29 to July 3 2026 in Barcelona, Dominique Aresenault from the Université […]
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Reflections on an event series on democratic economic planning
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in BlogRead more: Reflections on an event series on democratic economic planningThe anarcho-communist group La Banda Vaga from Freiburg, Germany, hosted a series of events earlier this year to promote and discuss ideas of democratic economic planning to meet the challenges […]
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New podcast episode on democratic planning, AI and a multicriterial economy with Aaron Benanav
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in PodcastsRead more: New podcast episode on democratic planning, AI and a multicriterial economy with Aaron BenanavIn a recent episode of the Dissens podcast titled ‘Capitalism is broken, here’s how we overcome it’, Aaron Benanav talks about the economic crises of our times, centralisation of economic […]
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New book provides an anarchist critique of cybersocialist theories and visions
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in BooksRead more: New book provides an anarchist critique of cybersocialist theories and visionsAcademics Rhiannon Firth of the University College London and John Preston of the University of Essex have published a new book Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics that […]
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Call for Participation and Seminar Proposals for Online Seminars by the ICEA
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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 […]
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Article responding to criticism by Jasper Bernes of the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
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in BlogRead 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 […]
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New Book Explains how to Transition to a World of Radical Abundance
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in BooksRead 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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