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A new website brings together information about the 100th anniversary of Stafford Beer’s birth, providing access to a conference, a book, and a documentary about him and his work. This anniversary is being marked by a series of conferences, initiatives, publications, and events to honor his life, work, and lasting influence. Several international partner organizations…

We are excited to announce our new organisational partnership between INDEP and the Commons-Institute in Germany. The Commons-Institute is a network of people active around commons and commoning from academic and activist backgrounds. They introduce into the different aspects of commons theory and practice, share videos and articles, organize events and summer schools and publish…

Since IDA (Initiative Democratic Labor-Time Accounting) published the article “Feminist Socialization? The Opportunity of Labor-Time Calculation for the Problem of Private Reproductive Labor“, the blog Leftdis has republished the IDA’s article as well as two critiques of it. The first critique is by Hermann Lueer, who argues that socialization of reproductive labor it being collective…

In honor of the 100th birthday of the late Stafford Beer, INDEP is collaborating with Metaphorum to present a series of speakers for online events about Beer’s work, cybernetics, systems theory and their lasting relevance for questions regarding postcapitalism and democratic economic planing (DEP). Metaphorum is an organization which promotes and undertakes original research on…

In early December 2025, The Ideas Letter published an essay by Evgeny Morozov that critiqued socialists for not fully recognising the implications of artificial intelligence for reimagining a feasible and desirable socialism in the 21st century. Following the publication of Morozov’s essay, two essays have been published by academics Aaron Benanav and Leif Weatherby that…

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the biggest conservative leaning newspapers in Germany, recently commented the two-part article from economist Aaron Benanav in the New Left Review on a multicriterial economy and democratic planning. In an article from the 27th of January 2026, the F.A.Z. breaks down and criticizes alleged gaps in Benanavs argumentation and…

Agora42, a German magazine on philosophical economics published an issue titled ‘What’s the plan?’ on democratic economic planning. After an introduction into the planning debate, different authors including Aaron Benanav and Matthias Schmelzer dive deeper into some aspects like multidimensional economies or democratic planning in times of climate collaps. With Uwe Schneidewind, mayor of a…

The New Centre for Research and Practice is partnering with INDEP for an introductory online workshop on Democratic Economic Planning. The workshop titled ‘What is Democratic Economic Planning?’ will be held by Raphael Arar and Eric Meier and will take place in two online sessions of about 3 hours on April 30 and May 7…

In order to help popularise the theory and practice of democratic economic planning amongst workers, students, researchers, and activists, the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning has created pages on the following social media platforms, where will share the content that we post on our website as well as recordings of our events: Please follow…

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…