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  • Talk by La Banda Vaga on the Necessity of a Planned Economy in the Climate Catastrophe

    Susi Café Vauban-Allee 2a, Freiburg im Breisgrau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    This talk is part of a larger series of talks about democratic economic planning in times of the climate catastrophe, hosted by the german council-communist-anarchist group La Banda Vaga in Freiburg, Germany. They have previously published an article calling for an anti-authoritarian councilist planned economy. You can find the other talks in this series via […]

  • INDEP online Talk – Rethinking Expertise in Democratic Economic Planning – with Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin

    Online

    One of the main goals of postcapitalist democratic economic planning (DEP) is to thoroughly democratize economic decision making. Yet, the technical nature of economic expertise intended to advocate for and support DEP could inadvertently lead to the rise of a new elite with outsized influence on economic decisions. Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin will […]

  • A conference on planning, degrowth and social reproduction in Paris and online

    Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne 1 rue de la Glacière, Paris, France

    Paul Guillibert, Frédéric Monferrand, Alexis Cukier, Davide Gallo Lassere are organizing an event in French entitled Planning, degrowth, and social reproduction: the political relevance of ecomarxism. The event can be joined on May 20, 2025, in Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne or online via this link. The hypothesis underlying this event is that eco-Marxism is currently entering a […]

    Free
  • The Great Transition: Reviving post-capitalist solidarities in Montréal

    UQAM 400 Rue Sainte-Catherine E, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    The world is burning. Forest fires, droughts, and floods are multiplying across the globe. The Israeli state is massacring the Palestinian population with the complicity of Western powers, putting the region at risk. Inequalities are on the rise all over the planet. People are being evicted from their homes, and others are struggling to pay […]

    $25 – $200
  • The De-Socialization of Electricity: Unbundling the Public Utility Model in the United States – with Matt Huber

    Humboldt University, Room 2249A Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    The event will be in English. The description is taken from the event’s website: “One of Marx’s key arguments in Capital is that capital lays the material conditions for socialism through the socialization of production (harnessing the cooperative powers of the collective workers and the social powers of science and technology). But he probably did […]

  • Seminar: Markets and Alternative Production Coordination

    MSH Paris Nord 20 Av. George Sand, Saint-Denis, France

    The Récri, a seminar in critical political economy that is held regularly in Paris, will present its thirteenth session on the theme: Markets and Alternative Production Coordination. The seminar will be in person at the MSH Paris Nord, but also live on their YouTube channel. One presentation will be in English, the others will be […]

    Free
  • INDEP online Talk with Michael Hicks on his Game “Dissent on Mars” and Simulating Postcapitalist Economies

    Online

    Dissent on Mars is a new simulation game that lets players design dozens of different economies to live in, including a democratically planned economy. During this event, developer Michael Hicks will talk about his inspirations for the game, how democratic planning is simulated, the challenges he faced during development, and future plans for the game. […]

  • Presentation of Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector

    Humboldt University Berlin, Room 1066E Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    The event will be held in German, there will be no online participation. The description is taken from the event’s website: “Vorstellung eines juristischen Gutachtens mit Dr. Johannes Franke (Kanzlei Rechtsanwälte Günther Hamburg), kommentiert durch Rabea Berfelde und Solveig Degen, moderiert von Justus Henze (communia) Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekt „Socialization in Theory and Practice. […]

  • INDEP online Talk – the IDA presents their Labor Time Accounting App

    Online

    When a few council communists in the 1920s imagined how a communist economy could work, they imagined a moneyless economy using labour time as its unit of exchange, with a corresponding bookkeeping system. 100 years later, we can implement this system digitally with databases and the Web. The goal is still the same: a society […]

  • Cooperation Jackson Livestream on Building Social Digital Commons with Raphael Arar

    Online

    On July 8th Cooperation Jackson will be hosting a livestream with INDEP member Raphael Arar to talk about how to build autonomous social digital commons. This event is part of Cooperation Jackson’s “Build and Fight Formula” event series, which takes place on the second Tuesday of every month. You can find past livestreams of this […]

  • “Politics, Valorization and Technology in the High-Tech Bioeconomy” with session on “Democratic Planning in the Anthropocene”

    Online

    The event will take place online and in English. The description is taken from the event organizer’s website: To conclude the activities of the BioMaterialities research group, we warmly invite you to a one-day online workshop that brings together central themes of our collaborative research: technology, valorization, and politics in the context of the high-tech […]