Decolonizing Money: The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar, by Julio Linares (2026 Pluto Press) presents an anarchist theory of money which sets out strategies for collective liberation beyond state and capital. Drawing on anarchist, abolitionist and anti-colonial feminist traditions, Julio Linares makes the heretical argument for a grassroots democratic movement to abolish the imperialist US dollar as a necessary step towards the cancellation of debt and establishing a worldwide basic income. Linares shows that money, beyond a store of value and a medium of exchange, is a series of promises a society makes to itself – and he challenges us to make them otherwise.

In this conversation, we will speak about forms of direct action aimed at abolishing the dollar apparatus. We will explore what people can do from London to dismantle the US dollar empire and bring forth life affirming futures.

Julio César Linares is a community organizer and economic anthropologist born in the territories known today as Guatemala. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics where he studied and worked on projects with the late David Graeber. He serves as Public Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). He lives in Berlin, Germany.

What happens when we dismantle the very structures that destroy life on Earth?