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The communist website Leftdis has published two texts by Hermann Lueer and Fredo Corvo that discuss the relationship between wage struggles, abolishing wage labour and labour-time accounting in a communist society. You can read the two articles in English here or in German here.

The ICEA (Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión/Institute of Economic and Self-Management Sciences), an INDEP partner organisation, will be giving a talk on the relationship between markets, democratic economic planning and self-management at the 20th Critical Economists Conference in Bilbao from Wednesday 11th June to Thursday 12th June. A summary of what the…

The Center for Cybernomics Research (CCR) has recently joined INDEP as a partner organization. They are a research institute focused on cybernetics, economics, organisational theory and other related topics. You can join their discord server here. They are also affiliated with the Econophysics discord community, the Accessist International and the Cybernetic Socialism subreddit.

On his YouTube channel, Paul Cockshott of the University of Glasgow has made a video critiquing an article in Jacobin by Vivek Chibber of New York University where Chibber critiques the theory and practice of central planning and argues for market socialism. You can read Chibber’s article here while you watch Paul’s critique here.

Proletären, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Sweden (K), has published a letter by Tomas Härdin arguing that the only way to solve the climate crisis is through instituting a global planned economy. A summary of the letter can be found below: This is a letter I wrote to Proletären, the newspaper of the…

We are excited to announce our new organisational partnership between INDEP and the Espaces Marx in France. Espaces Marx (formerly the Institute for Marxist Research) is an association dedicated to critical thinking, education, and intellectual production, rooted in the critical and emancipatory tradition of Marxism. Its goal is to conduct in-depth analyses of the social,…

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…