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A new book on Postcapitalist Countrysides
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in BooksRead more: A new book on Postcapitalist CountrysidesNick Gallent, Menelaos Gkatzios, Mark Scott, and Andrew Purves just published an edited book in English entitled Postcapitalist Countrysides – From commoning to community wealth building. All the authors teach […]
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“Creative Construction – Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond” edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg published
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in BooksRead more: “Creative Construction – Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond” edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg publishedThe book “Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond“, which was edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg, has recently been published by Bristol University Press in […]
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Recording uploaded of INDEP event “Kyle Thompson on the General Intellect Unit Podcast and Building a Community”
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in VideosRead more: Recording uploaded of INDEP event “Kyle Thompson on the General Intellect Unit Podcast and Building a Community”The recording of the INDEP online event with Kyle Thompson giving a retrospective on the General Intellect Unit podcast and how to build a community has been uploaded to our […]
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Call for Abstracts for Conference on the Transformation towards a Socially and Ecologically just Future
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Read more: Call for Abstracts for Conference on the Transformation towards a Socially and Ecologically just Future(copied from the document on the conference mailed to INDEP): Conference: Transformation to a (more) socially and ecologically just futureThe path to more democracy – anti-authoritarian and power-critical approaches Location: […]
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New Report on Worker-led Innovation discussing the Lucas Plan and other examples by Jessica Thorne
Read more: New Report on Worker-led Innovation discussing the Lucas Plan and other examples by Jessica ThorneHow can workplaces benefit from innovation that is shaped by workers themselves? This report from Jessica Thorne for the Autonomy Institute, commissioned and published by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), […]
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IDA published article on labor time calculation in “express”, a newspaper on socialist union work
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in ArticlesRead more: IDA published article on labor time calculation in “express”, a newspaper on socialist union workThe Initiative democratic labor time calculation (IDA) has recently published an article explaining the basics of labor time calculation in the german newspaper “express“. Express is a newspaper focused on […]
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Explainer video about labor time accounting by iDA now online in Croatian
Read more: Explainer video about labor time accounting by iDA now online in CroatianINDEP member IDA’s Explainer Video on labor time accounting is now also available in Serbo-Croatian!
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Anarchist organization “Perspective Self-Management” has included labor time accounting in its program
Read more: Anarchist organization “Perspective Self-Management” has included labor time accounting in its programThe anarchist group “Perspektive Selbstverwaltung” proposes labor time accounting as a transitional step to abolish wage labor and money, valuing all work equally. INDEP member IDA supports this but suggests recording labor time long-term for societal oversight without linking it to consumption.
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A defense of a modular approach to democratic economic planning
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in ArticlesRead more: A defense of a modular approach to democratic economic planningSimon Tremblay-Pepin, a professor at the Elisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation at Saint-Paul University and researcher in the research group on democratic planning of the CRITS, published a new logbook […]
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Call for proposals – Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopias
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Read more: Call for proposals – Imagining and creating other possible worlds: engaged arts, emergencies, utopiasThe CRITS, a research center on social innovation and transformation and one of INDEP’s partner organizations, is announcing a colloquium in Ottawa on November 6-7, 2025. The title is “Imagining […]
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John O’Neill Keynote Speaker at this Year’s LSE Graduate Conference in Political Theory
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Read more: John O’Neill Keynote Speaker at this Year’s LSE Graduate Conference in Political TheoryAt this year’s Graduate Conference in Political Theory of the LSE Department of Government John O’Neill of the University of Manchester will be giving a keynote. O’Neill is a well […]
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New Journal Special Issue on Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: New Journal Special Issue on Democratic Economic PlanningRecently a special issue on Democratic Economic Planning has been published by the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Here is a list of the included papers, which are all […]
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