Diesen Freitag!
Podiumsdiskussion über den Strukturwandel der Landwirtschaft, Eigentum und Bodenpolitik 🚜

Die Energiewende geht vielen nicht zu schnell sondern zu langsam.

📊 57 % sagen: zu langsam
📊 Nur 15 %: zu schnell

Besonders deutlich:
🔴 67 % unter 35 wollen mehr Tempo

Das zeigt: Die Mehrheit ist weiter als die Politik.
Jetzt braucht es Umsetzung statt Kurzschluss. ⚡️

#Energiewende #Kurzschluss

@cmmonwealth.bsky.social @lndep.bsky.social

INDEP x Green Planning Commission Online Panel – Green Planning for Transition and Policy YouTube video by INDEP - Network for Democratic Economic Planning

How can we put green planning into practice?

Last Tuesday,
@brusselermel.bsky.social, @isabelestevez.bsky.social, @gkahan.bsky.social, Justus Henze (@communiade.bsky.social) and I had a really interesting discussion on this question.

Recording is now online!

Very useful comparative oil shock data viz.

Oceanographers, simultaneously the most mild-mannered and the most terrifying people you’ll ever meet

Working Nature by Daniela Russ and other books

new books from @versobooks.bsky.social !

including Working Nature by @ueberdruss.bsky.social (book release in Berlin, July 9, with special guests)

Am 29. April 2026 um 19:00 Uhr im aquarium am Kottbusser Tor (Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin) präsentiert communia die neue Studie zur Geschichte der Energiewirtschaft von Prof. Daniela Russ und Solveig Degen, mit Beiträgen von Jakob Heyer und Ralf Hoffrogge.

communia.de/einladung-ge...

Einladung: Geschichte von Energie & Vergesellschaftung - communia Am 29.4. präsentieren wir eine neue Studie zur Geschichte der Energiewirtschaft und der Kämpfe um ihre Vergesellschaftung.

@jakobheyer.bsky.social and Ralf Hoffrogge also both contributed super interesting pieces to the report!

Here the link for the event: communia.de/einladung-ge...

🚨Publication and event alert:

Over the past year, @ueberdruss.bsky.social and I have been writing a study on the history of ownership and power struggles in the European energy sector for @communiade.bsky.social (in German)

On 29 April at 7pm, we will be presenting it in Berlin!

👇details below

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy!

This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply.

However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

How Cities Can Evaluate Public Investment Without Bond Markets By Will Beaman A series of recent articles from Money on the Left has argued that cities can sell municipal bonds to their own public banks, reclaiming public finance from private bond markets and …

How Cities Can Evaluate Public Investment Without Bond Markets

Next Tuesday! Join us to discuss how we can put green democratic planning into practice ⚡️

Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill, says Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned C...

The more I’ve learned about private equity, the more I’ve come to see it as a metaphor for how power and wealth now operate in Britain. I wrote about it for @theguardian.com - two days before THE ASSET CLASS publishes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Recording of INDEP online Talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen on Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy uploaded The recording of our recent online talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen – “Who Plans the Future? Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel...

The recording of our online talk in partnership with @ktbberlin.bsky.social, where Janina Urban and @solveigdegen.bsky.social discuss how investment could be democratised and socialised in a financialised capitalist economy, has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. www.indep.network/recording-of...

"Daran gibt es wenig Zweifel": Steinmeier bezeichnet Iran-Krieg als völkerrechtswidrig Ungewöhnlich scharf hat Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier den von den USA und Israel begonnenen Krieg verurteilt. Einen solchen Ton hatte die Bundesregierung bisher vermieden.

Deutschland zeigt sich von seiner erbärmlichsten Seite: Das Völkerrecht wird plötzlich entdeckt, wenn man merkt, dass man auf der Verliererseite steht.

this is a crime against humanity

Das Kolloquium des Fachgebiets Soziologie in der Sozialökonomie an der @uni-hamburg.de zeigt im SoSe 2026, wie die historische Soziologie der Wirtschaft sozialökonomische Transformationen analysiert @dgswisoz.bsky.social. Mit @ueberdruss.bsky.social, Virginia Kimey Pflücke und @trgn.bsky.social.

@ktbberlin.bsky.social

Reiche plant trotz Energiepreis-Explosion keine Maßnahmen Die Preise für Öl und Gas gehen durch die Decke. Zeit, dem Ausbau der Erneuerbaren Energien einen Schub zu verleihen, finden nicht nur die Grünen, sondern auch die mitregierende SPD. Doch die zuständi...

Kann man sich nicht ausdenken, ich habe gefragt und die Antwort von Katherina Reiche: Sie plant keine weiteren Maßnahmen zur Unabhängigkeit von Öl und Gas.

www.n-tv.de/politik/Reic...

INDEP online Talk with Solveig Degen and Janina Urban - Who Plans the Future? Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy This event will take place in partnership with the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here.

Next Tuesday evening Janina Urban and I will give an online talk on socialising investment! 💸

Zoom, 24.03 - 19-20:30 CET

The event is organised by @lndep.bsky.social

⬇️sign-up below!

F&L Blog - Understanding the New Fascism - International Karl Polanyi Society Understanding the New Fascism: Post-Truth, Big Tech and the Return of Arendt’s Organized Lie by Silke van Dyk 12.03.2026 Trump II is far more than just a radical version of … Continue reading F&L Blog...

👉 How does a fascist regime create its own reality - and what does liberalism have to do with it?

Drawing on Arendt’s idea of the organized lie, Silke van Dyk examines how the Trump administration and the new tech capitalism form a coalition around the manipulation of knowledge

#fascism #Trump

Wie eine Krisendeutung aussieht, die statt Migranten oder Transferempfängern die eigentlichen Schuldigen für die sinkende Kaufkraft identifiziert und probate politische Antworten anbietet, demonstriert der... Sprecher des Tankstellenverbands?

This truly is mesmerizing. 😳

It shows the insanity and amateurism of this administration. The fact that this is possible, however, and about one-third of Americans are fine with it, is what is truly mind blowing.

a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

The war on Iran is causing gas and oil price explosions.

Our research shows: Fossil fuel prices are the most important prices for inflation and inequality. Energy price shocks are redistribution shocks. The poorer you are, the larger the share of income you spend on essentials.

“It’s insane because in the night it looked like day and in the day, it was so dark, it looked like a new moon night. So, so dark, just like our futures. I noticed there wasn’t a single bird in the sky and you know what they say? When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own.”

Iran labour Confederation - Abroad | Statement by the ILC on the Ongoing War and the Urgency of Revolutionary Action The killing of Ali Khamenei, alongside a number of senior figures from the IRGC and the ruling apparatus, is an exceptional development in Iran’s current trajectory. It is a decisive blow to the he…

Statement by the Iran Labour Confederation.
iranlc.org/en/12023

Coercing Climate Finance

excellent Note by ISRF Director @cnewf.bsky.social on our Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice project, in preparation for workshop on Coercing Finance, where we explore the macrofinance/political economy of credit and sketch futures of socialised investment

isrf.org/blog/coercin...