As part of the Anniversary Party of Marx, on Saturday 9 May from 1:30PM-3PM (Brasilia Standard Time) at Utopia Warehouse (Warehouse 6, Cais do Porto, s/n), Aaron Benanav of Cornell University will discuss automation, the future of work and multi-criterial socialism with Marcela Soares. Further details about the Anniversary Party of Marx and how to […]

The Themagroep Cybernetische Economie van de RSP/Cybernetic Economy Thematic Group of the Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Party will holding a meeting on Saturday 16th May from 2PM CEST, where two members of IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) will discuss how a communist economy can be organised on the basis of labour-time. The […]

This online event will take place in English. To participate, please register here.   Does democratic economic planning have its own political aesthetics? This talk explores that question and argues that, at present, it does not—and that this absence poses a problem, even for those with little interest in art or aesthetics. By examining how […]

On the 27th May, 7pm CEST, Razmig Keucheyan will be giving a livestreamed talk about the book “Comment bifurquer. Les principes de la planification écologique”, which he co-authored with Cédric Durand. The book has recently been translated into German as “Das Prinzip Verzweigung. Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft” and published by the Karl […]

This event will take place in French. The description and program have been translated from French: In 1946, General de Gaulle established the General Commission for Planning and appointed Jean Monnet as its head. Monnet spearheaded the “Monnet Plan,” an innovative initiative to coordinate and drive the country’s reconstruction effort, combined with a major drive […]

On Monday 8th June from 7PM-9PM UTC+2 online via YouTube, Kohei Saito of the University of Tokyo will be discussing the launch of his new book with Carla Reemtsma, co-founder of climate activist group Fridays for Future Germany. The event will be part of the “linksbündig” book premiere series hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. […]

This online event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. Meeting social needs with democratic planning requires that we learn how to see and define those needs, and that we institutionalize such learning processes in postcapitalist governance. In this presentation, Leone explores some meditations on the politics of measurements and their role […]

On Wednesday 10th June 2026 from 4PM-6PM CEST at the Kassenhalle, Forum am Domshof in the Universität Bremen, Kohei Saito of the University of Tokyo will give the Alfred-Sohn-Rethel lecture “Counter-Planning against Climate Fascism”, which will discuss how his conception of degrowth communism can be deployed to bring an emancipatory resolution to the dual global […]

On Thursday 11th June from 7PM-9PM UTC+2 at the Thalia Theater, Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos will discuss how democratic economic planning can be the solution to the social, economic and ecological crises caused by capitalism. The event will be in English. A summary of the event can be found below: “Climate crisis, […]

The MEHR Festival 2026, organised by the Otto Brenner Stiftung, a foundation of the IG Metall metalworkers’ union, will be held from Tuesday 16th June to Friday 19th June at Frankfurt am Maim. The four day festival aims to develop the theory and practice of building workers’ power. The festival seeks to do this through […]

This event will take place in English. In order to participate, please register here.   This presentation builds bridges between the emerging literature on democratic planning and feminist political economy, and by extension work on racial capitalism, in order to address the class reductionism and economism that characterize parts of the planning debate. Christoph Sorg […]

This event is going to take place in German. To participate, please register by sending an email to verwaltung@attac.at In this event, the issue “Let’s Plan! Democratic Economic Planning – The Key to Transformation?” of the “Kurswechsel” journal is going to be presented and discussed. The issue can be ordered here. (event description below copied […]