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 […]

This event will take place in German. (The text below has been copied and translated from the original event website): Day after day, the news paints a bleak picture of social developments: massive arms buildup and militarization, a global struggle over raw materials and the energy systems of the future, a rise in anti-feminism and […]

We’re having a little online party to celebrate INDEP’s second anniversary! It is going to be an informal get together without an agenda, but an occasion to meet, find out what we’re all up to and celebrate our network and each other. We’re looking forward to celebrate with you! Please register here to participate.

This event will take place online via zoom and will be held in German. This event is hosted by “Emanzipation & Frieden” in collaboration with “teilbar e.V.”.   The description of the event has been translated from the event website: “The debate on democratic economic planning is experiencing a resurgence internationally. With the German-language publication […]

This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. This talk will analyse the historical development of capitalist production methods from a cybernetic and political economic lens. Tom O’Brien will discuss the implications of Fordism, modern budget management, […]