Category: News

The Berlin based housing campaign ‘Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen‘ recently published a draft law for socializing large real estate companies like Deutsche Wohnen, Vonovia and others. After a positive referendum in 2021 and years of intensive work by a large team of lawyers and activists, the group now has a detailed law that can…

The Green Planning Commission, a multi-year initiative to develop the theory and practice of green democratic economic planning from the think-tank Common Wealth, has launched. The Commission is run by a team of commissioners, which consists not only of researchers affiliated with Common Wealth but also other researchers whose focus is on developing green democratic…

The 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…

There’s a new German Wikipedia entry on “Planned Economy”. Before, there was only a German entry on “Centrally Planned Economy“, which didn’t reflect the state of the discussion on economic planning today. The new entry touches on some of these new developments, but additions are of course welcome!

INDEP member IDA (Initiative for democratic labour time calculation) has launched a new website!

The German newspaper taz has published an article reporting on the recently published legal evaluation on the possibility of socializing the energy sector. The legal evalutation was commissioned by the think tank communia and was recently presented to the public at an event. For more info, click here.

The website “Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt” (“Economic and organisational democracy”), which contains diverse materials on economic and organisational democracy on the macro-, meso- and microscale, is now also available in English. To switch the language, just go to the right corner of the top menu and select the language on the drop down menu. We also indicated the…

The recording of the INDEP online event with the IDA on their labour time accounting app has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find the video via this link or watch it below.

At this year’s Historical Materialism conference in Paris there is going to be a panel with the title “Après la révolution – Quel sujet historique pour la planification? (After the revolution – What historical subject for planning?)”. The Panel will include the following talks: (- Pierre Caye – Planning in Contemporary Complex Systems– Paul Feltmann…

The European Union is on the brink of introducing sweeping changes to its public procurement rules, with the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee (IMCO) set to vote on June 26 on a report that includes a controversial amendment—Article 13c. This proposal would significantly curb the ability of public authorities to award contracts to in-house or…

Cornel Ban and Jacob Hasselbalch published a large-audience version of their academic article published in New Political Economy last December. This shorter and more accessible text is published in Phenomenal World and is available in open access. It argues in favor of indicative planning integrated into a mixed economy to make it more durable and…