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The 2024 Ecosocialism Conference in London (and online) will address the ecological crisis and the global capitalist system driving it. Join leading activists, thinkers, and advocates to build a movement for sustainable, equitable change and to envision a future of social and environmental justice. The conference will cover topics like socialist planning, dismantling green colonialism,…

The 21st Historical Materialism Conference will take place November 7-10 2024 in London. INDEP Steering Group members Thomas O’Brien, Donal O’Coisdealbha, and Ferdia O’Driscoll have organised three panels on postcapitalism, namely: This year, Historical Materialism created a Post-Capitalism stream, emblematic of the increasing attention being given to questions of postcapitalism by the Left. There are…

The german think tank Communia has recently published a study on how socialization can become an emancipatory hegemony project for transforming the energy sector. It maps the current predominant reactions to the climate crisis (with a focus on Germany), namely a technologically focused “green capitalism”, versus a strengthening of reactionary and fascist forces, which aim…

INDEP members Walther Zeug and Eric Meier have been invited to the Berlin Sci-Fi Festival this year, happening on the 19th October. They are going to participate in a panel on Solarpunk, highlighting its connections to questions of democratic economic planning. This came about after an organizer of the festival reached out to INDEP after…

On the 17th October 7pm CEST INDEP is going to host an online event at which Jan Groos of the Future Histories Podcast will introduce his new research platform on democratic planning. The platform will serve as a shared resource that unites essential tools and materials for in-depth exploration of the past, present, and future…

The 4th European Meeting of the Workers’ Economy will take place October 11-13 2024 in Barcelona. Attendees from Europe and Latin America will present on economic self-management. The IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung), which is an organisational member of INDEP, will present on labour time calculation. The event is organised by the ICEA (Instituto de Ciencias…

INDEP member Raphael Arar had some of his artwork exhibited in two group exhibitions, one curated by Solarpunk Surfclub at the University of Kentucky’s Bolivar Gallery and another curated by the Portland, Oregon chapter of Jobs With Justice at One Grand Gallery in Portland, Oregon. The works featured include:

Jakob Heyer will give an introduction to the current discourse on Democratic Economic Planning in an online talk series organized by the heterodox economics education platform Exploring Economics. The online talk series’ theme is “The economy after neoliberalism” and will explore economic developments away from neoliberalism as we know it towards a form of dynamic…

In 2023-2024 the research group on democratic economic planning at CRITS organized a virtual seminar series. All the talks from this series are now online! Title of the event Virtual Seminar Series on Democratic Economic Planning Presenters Adam Balsam, Anders Sandström and Ferdia O’Driscoll, Anitra Nelson, Spyros Samothrakis, Simon Sutterlütti and Stefan Meretz, Martín Arboleda,…

This September the Fellowship program “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning” will be start to be hosted by The New Institute, a think tank based in Hamburg, Germany. The program will be chaired by Kohei Saito and will last until June 2025. The fellows are Aaron Benanav, Troy Vettese, Cédric Durand, Matthias Schmelzer, Tatjana…