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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Fernando Stroppa - Planning Hope: Building Version 0.1 of a Democratic Economy
DESCRIPTION:This talk will take place in English. \nIn order to participate\, please register here. \nCritique can show what is failing and why existing institutions produce inequality and ecological damage. But any democratic alternative also has to answer practical questions about the future: Who will make economic decisions? How will labour and resources be allocated? How will local knowledge and technical expertise be combined? Which ecological and social limits will constrain planning? \nThe talk begins from an exploratory analysis of revolutionary political discourse\, where critique and diagnosis appeared much more often than detailed proposals for future institutions. This leads to a broader question: can the construction of concrete institutions itself become a source of grounded political hope? \nA deliberately incomplete model of a democratic economy is used to explore this idea. The talk focuses on work credits\, mathematical optimisation for resource allocation and environmental constraints\, and organisational models inspired by systems engineering and complex systems. \nThe aim is to make an alternative concrete enough to be examined\, criticised and improved\, and to ask whether this process of collective construction can strengthen the sense that another economy can actually be organised. \n  \nFernando Ferreira Stroppa is a civil engineer\, optimisation specialist\, and industrial PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at the University of Seville. He also holds a Master’s degree in Theory of Culture\, an interdisciplinary background that brings together mathematical modelling\, engineering\, and the study of culture and society. \nFernando works as an Optimisation Engineer \, developing large-scale mathematical models for airline planning. Alongside his professional work\, he explores how mathematical optimisation and participatory institutions could support democratic\, post-capitalist economic planning. He is the author of “Construindo um Brasil Pós-Capitalista” (“Building a Post-Capitalist Brazil”)\, which examines practical ways of organising production around human needs\, ecological limits\, and democratic decision-making.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-fernando-stroppa-planning-hope-building-version-0-1-of-a-democratic-economy/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with David Zachariah - Socialist Planning as Anticipatory Economic Regulation
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nTo participate\, please register here. \nDavid Zachariah will present a working paper\, “Socialist Planning in the Era of Climate Change“\, co-authored with Tomas Härdin which explores the question of realizing a feasible and stable implementation of economic planning. We discuss how planning institutions should be built upon the autonomous regulation of production by enterprises\, in order to overcome the information and incentive problems that emerged from historical experiences with economic planning. \nYou can find the working paper here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-tallk-with-david-zachariah-socialist-planning-as-anticipatory-economic-regulation/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Feminist Futures II Conference: Feminist Socialization
DESCRIPTION:The conference will be held in German\, but there will be live translations into English and Spanish. \nTo participate\, please register here. \nYou can join the telegram channel of the conference for updates before and during the conference. \nThis event is held in cooperation with the Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies. \nYou can find the full program here (and in other languages through the event website). \nThis description has been taken from the conference website. \n  \nWhether juggling everyday life tasks as a single parent or caring for relatives while on unemployment benefits\, whether working to the bone in a hospital or helping to heal the wounds everyday racism inflicts within our communities — much like the violence that is done to our bodies and relationships — we all know: the world does not run on its own. We keep it running. And that is precisely why we are devalued. We are individualized and often even pitted against one another. \nHowever varied our struggles may be\, we are all faced with some common questions: who keeps the world going — and under what conditions? Who receives support and who doesn’t? Who has access to and control over whose labour\, body\, and time? \nThe hierarchical division of productive and reproductive labour is central to the devaluing of care work and is a load-bearing pillar of capitalism: by encoding care work as “feminine” and relegating it to the private sphere\, labour costs are reduced and profits secured. Our labour is exploited in multiple ways\, while vitally important common goods are privatized. This is not just about the economy. The binary gendered division of labour also reinforces violent patriarchal\, cis-normative\, and heteronormative gender relations. This affects FLINTA* people particularly harshly. \nOur bodies are sexualized and subjected to racist and binary norms. In the crisis of capitalism\, right-wing authoritarians the world over are declaring that there are only two genders\, attacking reproductive rights\, and attempting to reimpose traditional gender roles. The closing of borders and the relentless persecution of immigrants demonstrates just how far dehumanization has progressed\, and that some lives are valued less than others. At the same time\, cheap immigrant labour is recruited in attempts to stave off the healthcare crisis. \nWe know that liberation for all will only be possible if we act together to tackle the various intertwining forms domination takes. \nFeminist socialization means challenging this global\, gendered\, and racist division of labour — and with it the devaluing and oppression of the very people whose labour makes life possible in the first place. We want collective care rather than the burden of care being forced upon the family\, public infrastructure rather than neoliberal austerity\, and solidarity rather than right-wing divisiveness. \nHow this might be achieved is what we plan to discuss together at the second Feminist Futures conference: \nWe are inviting groups and initiatives engaged in struggles around the politics of care work\, against patriarchal and sexualised violence and femicide\, or for queer and trans liberation\, reproductive justice\, and diverse ways of life. Come and join us in discussing anti-racist and internationalist perspectives in struggles for freedom of movement and abolition\, against war and militarization\, and for climate justice. \nHow can we better link up our various struggles? And what strategies does a queer-feminist and anti-racist movement need in times of rising authoritarianism? Let’s share our experiences\, forge alliances\, and take concrete steps toward a caring\, solidary society. \nFor further info\, contact feministfutures@rosalux.org.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/feminist-futures-ii-conference-feminist-socialization/
LOCATION:Ruhr-Universität Bochum\, Universitätsstraße 150\, Bochum\, North-Rhine-Westphalia\, 44801\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Talk by Evgeny Morozov - Socialism after AI
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nThis event will be able to be attended in-person\, as well as online. To attend in-person\, sign up here. To attend online\, sign up here. \nThe description has been taken from the event website: \nThe old socialist calculation debate asked whether markets or planners could allocate resources more rationally. But neoliberalism long ago shifted the terrain from calculation to creativity\, experimentation and worldmaking — and AI now radicalises that shift by enclosing the infrastructures of knowledge\, culture\, judgment and imagination. This lecture\, by Evgeny Morozov\, argues that AI exposes a deeper blind spot in socialist thought: the absence of a robust theory of technologically-mediated action. \nThe Left has struggled to grasp how human capacities\, state power and technical infrastructures make one another inside the capitalist world-system — and how that same process might become a path from dependency to emancipation. From Europe’s search for AI sovereignty to the Global South’s long experience of technological dependence\, the question is no longer only who owns the machines\, but who controls the infrastructures through which societies learn\, create\, remember\, govern and make worlds. \nThe speaker will be Evgeny Morozov and the event will be chaired by Lea Ypi. \nThe event will be hosted by Alternatives to Capitalism\, LSE Law School and the Ralph Miliband Programme.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/talk-by-evgeny-morozov-socialism-after-ai/
LOCATION:LSE Sheikh Zayed Theatre\, Cheng Kin Ku Building
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Rüzgar Imski - Playnet - Viable Socialist Computation in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nIn order to participate\, please register here. \nPlaynet.earth is a community aiming to replace the market as the mechanism that coordinates society – with a continuously updated\, computer-assisted system that plans production according to people’s desires\, the labour actually available\, the technical constraints of the tools and skills at hand\, and the ecological limits we can’t cross? \nThe socialist calculation debate of the 1920s–40s asked whether a fully detailed planned economy was computationally possible. Kantorovich\, Koopmans\, and others showed the mathematics worked; what was missing was a machine large enough to run it. Those machines now exists while Amazon\, Walmart\, and Uber already operate modified versions of those solvers at civilizational scale\, walled off and profit-captured\, solving over a limited subset of humanities supply and demand. Playnet proposes generalizing the same computational methods across all supply and demand rather than one firm’s vertical while changing the optimization objective. The talk will share the latest work of the playnet & valueflows communities as an invitation to collaboration with the INDEP community. \nYou can see the latest draft specification here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-ruzgar-imski-playnet-viable-socialist-computation-in-the-21st-century/
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SUMMARY:Public Policy Workshop: Rethinking Macroeconomic Planning in Europe
DESCRIPTION:To participate\, please register on the bottom of the event website. \n  \nDescription: \nIn cooperation with the research project “Heterodox Planning” (Humboldt University/Einstein Foundation) \n\n\n\n\nEurope stands at a critical macroeconomic crossroads. As the continent grapples with the compounding pressures of structural economic crisis\, geopolitical fragmentation\, and the urgent need for unprecedented socio-ecological investment\, conventional market-driven paradigms are failing to provide viable answers. \nAs highlighted in the recent landscape report by Partners for a New Economy (P4NE)\, “Fertile Ground: Exploring Europe’s New Economy Ecosystem”\, if we are to successfully navigate this era of interlocking crises\, the field must elevate macroeconomic planning. No longer dismissed as a relic of the past\, strategic public coordination and structural steering are re-emerging as essential tools to reshape the future of European capital\, navigate fiscal rules\, and steer the green transition. This event brings together leading voices in political economy to dissect how democratic\, structural economic planning can be effectively revived and translated to viable policy solutions. \nThe Panel\nIlias Alami (Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge\, Member of the Green Planning Comission) – will illustrate how the global rise of state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds expands the scope for progressive economic intervention\, while questioning how we can push past these frameworks toward deeper systemic transformation. \nJacob Hasselbalch (Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School) will compare historical and contemporary planning models—spanning France\, Denmark\, South Korea\, and China—to show how states can deploy long-term macroeconomic steering\, indicative planning\, and strategic investment budgets to manage the green transition. \nHannah Bensussan (Political Economist and EU Economic Policy Expert; Advanced background in institutional economics) will analyze the current French institutional landscape\, critique the successes and failures of its planning ministry\, and explore how the macroeconomic proposals of La France Insoumise can be expanded for broader European policy. \nModerated by Maxine Fowé (Political Economist and journalist) \nAgenda\n\n09:00 – Welcome & Opening Remarks by the Network for Pluralist Economics\n\n\n09:15 – Flash Talks on Macroeconomic Planning\n\n\n10:15 – Open Q&A Session\n11:30 – Networking & Refreshments (until 12:30)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the MacroHub workshop: Age of Planning Conference\nThe exploration of macroeconomic planning continues in the rest of the day and on October 16 with the academic conference “Age of Planning”\, which brings together empirical research on corporate and state planning in practice. More information will be sent after registration for the MacroHub.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/rethinking-macroeconomic-planning-in-europe/
LOCATION:Auditorium at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum\, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1–3\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20261015T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20261016T190000
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SUMMARY:Conference: Age of Planning?
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nThe description and program have been taken from the event website. \nTo participate\, please register here. \n\nDescription \nIn the wake of the Global Financial Crisis\, the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating climate crisis\, the failure of markets to address urgent collective problems has pushed the question of economic planning back onto the academic and political agenda. While much of the debate remains focused on models of post-capitalist planning\, the “Age of Planning?” returns to the departure point of the new planning debate\, that is\, the observation that planning is already endemic in capitalism. Empirical work that engages with the concept of planning remains fragmented across three largely separate literatures: one tracing how corporations increasingly coordinate production\, supply chains and investment outside of price signals (“corporate planning”); one tracing how states are returning to industrial policy\, state ownership and green economic planning amid a new wave of state capitalism (“state planning”); and one tracing how the conscious decisions of central banks and institutional investors increasingly divorce investment decisions and funds available for them from previous market competition (“financial planning”). \n“Age of Planning” brings these three strands into direct conversation for the first time. The guiding questions: \n\nHow do we define planning in our different fields?\nIs planning making a comeback across such different fields and if yes why? How can we measure an increase or decrease of planning?\nWhat connects corporate\, state and financial planning conceptually and empirically?\nHow can we theorize these transformations in a way that also speaks to a normatively grounded\, democratic perspective on planning?\n\nFormat\nThe conference opens on the morning of 15 October with “Rethinking Macroeconomic Planning in Europe” (MacroHub)\, a public policy workshop organised by the Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik in cooperation with the research project “Heterodox Planning” (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Einstein Foundation). From 9:00–12:00\, it will be discussed how strategic public coordination can help navigate Europe’s fiscal rules and steer the green transition. Registration and further information. \nThe academic conference continues through the afternoon of 15 October and all of 16 October\, with panels on financial planning\, digital platforms\, supply chain planning\, decarbonization\, social reproduction\, municipal planning\, state planning capacity and legitimacy\, and the broader politicization of the economy. \nThe conference will be hybrid\, combining in-person presentations with online presentations. \nThe Future Histories Lab will be media partner of the conference and record a live episode during the conference. \nBackground\nThe conference is the kick-off event for the research project “Heterodox Planning“\, and builds on a growing body of work arguing that planning is not the antithesis of capitalist market economies but an endogenous feature of them. Firms plan production and investment ex ante within their own boundaries\, states plan indirectly via markets to secure accumulation and legitimacy\, and finance increasingly mediates between the two by allocating credit on the basis of anticipated rather than realised profitability. Bringing corporate\, state and financial planning into a shared framework is the starting point for the conference’s discussions\, which then builds a foundation for further debates about how to organize planning democratically and direct it at needs within planetary boundaries – and (so far mostly lacking) how to get there. \nBoth events are supported by the Einstein Foundation Berlin\, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, the Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik\, and the German Network for Democratic Economic Planning\, with the Future Histories podcast as media partner. \n  \nProgram\nDay 1: October   15th 2026\n9:00am–11:30am  Policy Workshop — Rethinking Macroeconomic Planning in Europe (MacroHub) \n11:30am–1:00pm   Lunch \n1:00pm–1:45pm    Introduction and welcome – Christoph Sorg \n2:00pm–3:10pm    Panel 1 — Finance – Benjamin Braun (online) · James Jackson \n3:30pm–4:40pm    Panel 2 — Corporate Planning I: Big Tech and planning – Hannah Bensussan · Cecilia Rikap (online) \n5:00pm–6:30pm    Panel 3 — Corporate Planning II: Supply chain planning – Paul Adler (online) · Florian Butollo · Autumn Mitchell (online) · Dominik Piétron · Lea Schneidemesser \n7:00pm Dinner \nDay 2: October    16th 2026\n9:15am–9:20am      Introductory remarks – Christoph Sorg \n9:20am–10:50am    Panel 4 — Green Economic Planning – Cornel Ban (online) · Jacob Hasselbalch · Mathias Larsen (online) \n11:15am–12:45pm   Panel 5 — Communal Planning – Yousaf Nishat-Botero · Franziska Paul · Silke van Dyk \n12:45pm–2:15pm   Lunch \n2:15pm–3:15pm    Panel 6 — Planning Reproduction – Giulia Dal Maso · Irina Herb \n3:40pm–4:40pm    Panel 7 — State Planning Capacity and its Legitimization – Rosie Collington (online) · Philipp Staab \n5:00pm–6:30pm    Panel 8 — Political Capitalism / Politicization of the Economy – Ilias Alami · Dylan Riley (online) \n7:00pm Dinner \n\nFor more information\, please contact Dr. Christoph Sorg (christoph.sorg@hu-berlin.de) or Hangzhi Yu (hangzhi.yu.1@hu-berlin.de).
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/conference-age-of-planning/
LOCATION:Auditorium at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum\, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1–3\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10117\, Germany
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with David Laibman - Systemic Socialism - Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC)
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in English. \nIn order to participate\, please register here. \nDescription:\nSocialism is a movement for the most revolutionary and humane values now conceivable.  But it is also a system\, with an operational core that transcends capitalism and class-antagonistic society in general.  That core ― MDIC ― unites central with local planning\, and quantitative with qualitative/political evaluation and decision-making.  A crucial relation between plan and result ― here called the Collective Morale Function ― evolves\, as socialist tech and social relations mature.  This evolution enables progressive unification of macro coordination with local incentives and participation\, thus fulfilling\, by stages\, the age-old dream of “the working class in power.” \nDavid Laibman is Prof. (Emeritus) of Economics at the City University of New York and Editor (Emeritus) of Science & Society
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-david-laibman-systemic-socialism-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination-mdic/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20261119T180000
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SUMMARY:Socialism for Future Conference
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place primarily in German\, but many panels are going to be live-translated into English as well. Which ones exactly is indicated in the program below. \nSome panels are also going to be livestreamed here. Which ones is also indicated in the program below. \nIn order to participate\, please register here. \nDescription\nWe are experiencing a regressive phase of capitalism\, including—and especially—with regards to climate policy. A broad front has formed against a socio-ecological transformation and has sharply slowed down ecological modernization. Fossil-fuel dependency—from natural gas to internal-combustion-engine cars—is back. Yet the coming ecological catastrophes are foreseeable; seven of the nine planetary boundaries have already been exceeded.\nYet every crisis also presents an opportunity. Rarely has the need for systemic change been as clear as it is today. We need a left-wing alternative to disaster capitalism. The programmatic concept of green socialism can help point the way out of the current crises.\nAt the conference\, we want to discuss together: What lies ahead for us under the current social conditions? What contradictions are emerging? What does “green socialism” actually mean\, and how can the concept be developed? What initial projects exist—and what might ecological class politics look like in practice? \nOrganizers\nThis event is organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in cooperation with Communia e.V.\, the Network Democratic Economic Planning\, the journal Prokla\, the Institute for Critical Theory (InkriT)\, the Association for critical study of society (AkG)\, and the AkG’s Critical China Forum. In media partnership with the Future Histories Podcast. \nWhen registering (see above)\, please note in the “Comments” section if you require childcare or have any other special needs. \nThe Huffschmid Prize for Political Economy will also be awarded at the conference. \nProgram (tentative)\nThursday\, Nov. 19\n6:30–8:00 p.m.\, Lecture with Chen Yiwen and Li Siqi (Tsinghua University\, Beijing) \nIs China on the Path to an Eco-Civilization? \nModerator: Nadja Charaby (RLS) \nWith simultaneous English/German translation\, in the small hall on the ground floor \n\nFriday\, November 20\n5:30 p.m.\, Opening: Why Green Socialism? \nWith Mario Candeias (RLS) \nWealth\, Class\, and Climate \nWith Lucas Chancel (Sciences Po\, Paris)\, Leonie Petersen (Oxfam)\, Lorenz Gösta Beutin (Member of the German Bundestag\, Die Linke); Moderator: Nadja Charaby (RLS) \nWith simultaneous English/German translation\, in the large hall on the ground floor\, as well as a livestream in the library on the first floor \n7:30 p.m.\, Break with finger food \n8–9 p.m.\, Awarding of the Jörg Huffschmid Prize \nby the Scientific Advisory Board of Attac\, the Pluralist Economics Network\, Euromemo\, and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation \nIntroduction: Anne Huffschmid (jury) and Stefan Thimmel (RLS) \nLaudatory Speeches: Silke Ötsch and Justus Henze (both members of the Jörg Huffschmid Prize jury) \nShort speeches by the award recipients: \n– Solveig Degen for her master’s thesis “Levers and Barriers for Energy System Transformation Through Socialization—The Case of the Austrian Energy Sector”\n– Dominik Pietron for his dissertation “Digital Privatization: Conflicts Over Data and Platforms in Public Services”\nModerators: Eva Völpel (RLS)\, Pernille Zimmermann (NPÖ)\, and Thomas Eberhardt-Köster (Attac Germany) \nWith simultaneous English/German translation in the main hall on the ground floor and a livestream in the library on the first floor \n\nSaturday\, Nov. 21\n10:00–11:00 a.m.\, Tipping Points\, Disasters\, and Capitalism—Where Do We Stand? \nKōhei Saitō (University of Tokyo) \nModerator: Jan Rehmann (InkriT) \nWith simultaneous English/German translation in the small hall on the ground floor and a livestream in the library on the first floor \nIntroductions to Green Socialism: \n– Changes in modes of production and society’s relationship to nature\n– Ecological class politics and industrial restructuring\n– Green infrastructure socialism and socialization\n– Eco-socialist internationalism\n– Eco-socialist democratic planning \n\n11:15 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Workshops \n\n\na) Anti-fascist and socio-ecological economic policy – featuring: Sabine Nuss (author\, Berlin)\, Dierk Hierschel (ver.di)\, and Thomas Goes (Die Linke Göttingen); Moderator: Eva Völpel (RLS) – Small Hall – with livestream \nb) Conversion – the right way. What’s next? – with Mara Schaffer (University of Jena)\, Lars Hirsekorn (VW Works Council/GK ZAUM)\, Cem Ince (Member of the Bundestag\, Die Linke); Moderator: Stephan Krull (Executive Board\, RLS/GK ZAUM) – Room S4 \nc) Infrastructures of Hope and Caring Cities – with Barbara Fried (RLS)\, Alex Wischnewski (Die Linke)\, and Corinna Dingler (Vienna University of Technology\, TBD)\, Moderator: Inga Lamprecht (RLS\, TBD) – Room S3 \nd) Raw Materials: Between Extreme Fossilism\, Green Capitalism\, and Sustainable Resource Use – with Anna Fünfgeld (University of Hamburg)\, Nina Schlosser (RLS/HWR Berlin)\, and Tonny Nowshin (Konzeptwerk)\, Moderator: Jan-David Echterhoff (RLS) – Room S1 \ne) Economic Planning Within Planetary Boundaries – with Solveig Degen (Center for Social Critique\, Berlin)\, Isabel Estevez (Think Tank i3T/Common Wealth’s Green Planning Commission\, invited)\, Isabel Estevez (Think Tank i3T/Commonwealth’s Green Planning Commission)\, Matthias Schmelzer (Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research\, University of Flensburg)\, Moderator: Justus Heinze (Communia e.V.) – with simultaneous English/German translation in the library on the 1st floor \n1:00 p.m. Lunch in Room S2 \n\n2:15–3:45 p.m. Workshops \na) Between the Domination of Nature and Militarization: Artificial Intelligence as a New Destructive Force? – with Sandra Sieron (Prokla/HU Berlin)\, Christoph Marischka (IMI Tübingen)\, and Silvia Weko (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg); Moderator: Philipp Frey (ITAS/RLS Executive Board) – Room S3 \nb) Green Steel – Is It Possible? – with Mirze Edis (Member of the German Bundestag\, Die Linke)\, Tom Krebs (University of Mannheim)\, and Alexandra Gerasimcikova (RLS Brussels); Moderator: Roland Kulke (Die Linke) – with simultaneous English/German translation in Room S4 \nc) Is Everything Expensive\, or What? – Rent\, the Heating Transition\, and Socialization – with Elisabeth Staudt (Die Linke Berlin)\, Armin Rothemann (DWE)\, and Knut Unger (Witten Tenants’ Association\, Platform of Critical Real Estate Shareholders\, Ruhr Tenants’ Forum); Moderator: Stefan Thimmel (RLS) – in Room S1 \nd) From New (Eco)Imperialism to (Eco)Socialist Internationalism – with Thomas Sablowski (LuXemburg magazine)\, Markus Wissen (HWR/RLS Advisory Board)\, and Vanessa Thompson (Queens University New York); Moderator: Lia Becker (LuXemburg editorial team) – with simultaneous English/German translation in the small hall and livestream \ne) Socialization of Investment – with Isabel Feichtner (University of Würzburg) and Christoph Sorg (Humboldt University of Berlin); Moderator: Janina Urban (Witten-Herdecke University/Democratic Planning Network) – with simultaneous English/German translation in the library on the 1st floor \n3:45 p.m. Coffee break \n\n3:15–5:45 p.m. Workshops \na) Eco-imperialist Tensions and Eco-Socialist Internationalism – with Merle Groneweg (HU Berlin)\, Uli Brand (University of Vienna/RLS Executive Board)\, and Nina Treu (Die Linke); Moderator: Lasse Thiele (Berlin) – Room S3 \nb) Conflicts of Transformation and Socio-Ecological Industrial Policy – with Karen Jaehrling (IAQ Duisburg)\, Frederick Coloumb (Die Linke)\, Steffen Lehndorf (IAQ Duisburg/RLS Member)\, Moderator: Stephan Krull (RLS Executive Board/ZAUM Working Group) – Room S4 \nc) Energy in the Climate Crisis: Prices\, Supply\, and the Question of Ownership – with Sophie-Marie Aß (Die Linke)\, Justus Henze (Communia)\, Tom Krebs (University of Mannheim/RLS-GK WiPo); Moderator: Eva Völpel (RLS) – Room S1 \nd) China: From Green Capitalism to Eco-Civilization? – with Chen Yiwen (Tsinghua University\, Beijing) and Jenny Simon (Prokla\, Berlin); Moderator: Hauke Neddermann (InkriT) – with simultaneous English/German translation in the small hall and livestream \ne) Planning for Food Security – with Anne Klingenmeier (Advisor on Food and Agricultural Policy\, The Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag)\, Jan-Felix Thon (KoLa Leipzig – Community-Supported Agriculture)\, Walther Zeug (Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research\, Leipzig)\, Moderator: Rabea Berfelde (Centre for Social Critique\, Berlin) – with simultaneous English/German interpretation in the library on the 1st floor \n5:45 p.m. Finger food in Room S2 \n\n6:45–8:15 p.m.: Closing Session: Socio-Ecological Populism\, Green Socialism\, and Die Linke \nVioletta Bock (Member of the German Bundestag\, Die Linke); Lia Becker (LuXemburg Editorial Team) and Carla Reemtsma (FridaysForFuture) \nModerator: Uli Brand (Executive Board\, RLS/University of Vienna) \nWith simultaneous English/German translation in the main hall on the ground floor\, as well as a livestream in the library on the first floor
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LOCATION:Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung\, Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10243\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Lucas Plan 50th Anniversary Celebration: An Idea Whose Time Must Come
DESCRIPTION:A conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lucas Plan will be happening on Sunday 21st November from 10:30AM-5:30PM UTC+0 at University Place\, Manchester. \nA summary of the conference can be found below: \n“50 years after the Lucas Plan\, workers\, activists\, students & academics unite in Manchester\, 21 Nov 2026\, for socially useful production now \n\n\n\n\n50 years ago\, workers at the Lucas Aerospace arms company launched their pioneering Alternative Workers Plan. Faced with threats to their jobs\, workers at Lucas Aerospace responded with a visionary\, positive plan that challenged economic orthodoxy. \nThey proposed 150 detailed ideas for socially useful products the company could make\, such as heat pumps\, wind turbines and kidney machines\, instead of fighter jet parts. \nThe Lucas Plan became famous worldwide\, sparking other groups of workers to propose their own plans. In Italy today\, workers occupying the former GKN auto plant are putting those ideas into practice\, making cargo bikes and solar panels. \nSOCIALLY USEFUL PRODUCTION NOW! \nBrian Salisbury and Phil Asquith\, the surviving active members of the Lucas workers’ Combine say: \n“We’re inviting you to join us in Manchester\, not just to celebrate this anniversary\, but to help us build a new movement for socially useful production. That means policies and products that overcome the problems of inequality\, poverty\, environmental destruction and conflict created by the last 50 years of neoliberalism. \nThe crises afflicting the world demand a response from all of us\, but mainstream politics and the market economy are completely failing to deal with them. So just as in the 1970s\, it’s time for ordinary people to take charge. We want to work with social movements and communities to develop a new alternative plan for Britain’s future\, for our children and grandchildren.” \nHear Lucas Aerospace Shop Stewards and connect with new generations of workers\, activists and communities to plan the economic and social transformation we need. \n\nClimate Jobs Not Bombs!\nFor a just and green transition\nHuman-centred technology\, not AI-driven automation and deskilling\n\nFor more information contact info@breakingtheframe.org.uk \nWatch this space for news of the screening of the award-winning documentary\, THE PLAN\, and a performance of Banner Theatre’s new play about the Lucas Plan in the week before the conference.” \nYou can register to attend the conference here\, while you can find out more about the conference here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/lucas-plan-50th-anniversary-celebration-an-idea-whose-time-must-come/
LOCATION:176 Oxford Rd\, Manchester\, 176 Oxford Road\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
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