Hit ‘Em Where it Hurts: How to Create an Alternative to Capitalism with Rob Callender

Tuesday December 17th
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm

How can we start to build a new, sustainable, democratic, community-owned economy?

In this immersive workshop – a combination of games and short talks – we’ll discover how debt, money and the capitalist economy really works, and explore the alternatives that are right under our noses.

Led by Rob Callender, activist and co-founder of Kin Cooperative - a platform designed to allow communities to bypass the banks and save money together - we’ll see how open-source financial systems, and federations of cooperatives working together, could dramatically reconfigure the economy.

As Lenin lamented in “On Cooperation”: “A social system emerges only if it has the financial backing of a definite class … If the whole of the peasantry had been organised in co-operatives, we would by now have been standing with both feet on the soil of socialism”.

Today, as Trump returns to the White House propelled by voters’ lived experience of the economy, how can we build structures that will change that experience, help people to help themselves, and halt the ever-more destructive, anti-democratic path of late-stage capitalism? We know those in power won't do it for us.

The evening will include a break for a one-pot vegan supper.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Event starts at 7pm.

£8 Kairos Club Member, £15 Non-member, £10 Struggling financially, £20 Supporter. Food complimentary.

Before requesting a discounted ticket, please consider sincerely: Are you struggling to meet your basic needs? Would you have to make a genuine sacrifice to buy a full priced ticket? Do you have reduced earnings through a lifestyle choice or because you’re dedicating your time to unpaid work relating to the climate and nature crises?

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