This event is done in partnership between INDEP and Espaces Marx. This event will take place in English. To participate, please sign up here.   Two arguments are put forward in defense of planning today. On the one hand, the ecological argument states that the transition cannot be undertaken by private actors seeking to maximize […]

This workshop is hosted by The New Centre for Research and Practice and is organized in partnership with INDEP. It will consist of two sessions, which will be 1,5 – 2 hours each. The first session will be on April 30, the second one on May 7. Both will take place from 1pm UTC to […]

This event will take place in German. Tickets for the in-person event can be bought for 6€ full price and 4€ reduced price here. The event will also be livestreamed here.   In the face of ecological crises, social upheaval, and economic instability, more and more people are seeking alternatives to capitalism. The two-volume project […]

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, […]