The Point Is

This is a book about changing the world — starting with the street you live in. People rarely change their politics because of rational debate. They change because they've felt the benefit of a new policy in their own lives. This book explains how to build Community Collectives that make that happen: neighbourhood by neighbourhood, using solidarity shopping that supports workers' rights, marketed locally, offering a real alternative to top-down politics. Each community chooses its own candidate through local online primaries. It charts the rise of cooperative shopping and union-label campaigns, and the use of a community shopping app to help build a Global Solidarity Fund for workers' rights. It analyses the Paris Commune, arguing that it offers a better model for workers' power than workers' councils. There are more of us than there are of them — the super-rich. We just have to organise better. Read this book. Then do it.