What is REVOLUTION?

Revolution is an international youth organisation. We launch and take part in a wide range of campaigns against injustice, exploitation and oppression. We have active groups in Britain, Sweden, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Indonesia and members scattered around the world.

The british newspaper the Independent on Sunday got it right in an ‘expose’ of REVOLUTION’s involvement in organising May Day 2001 in London. It said: “REVOLUTION wants to build a revolutionary socialist mass movement and overthrow capitalism.”

Exactly right. We are opposed to capitalism and the misery, alienation, war and environmental destruction it creates.

We support all struggles for progressive changes, but we do not believe that the capitalist elite will allow their wealth and privilege to be voted out of existence. We believe it will take force to take the power and property away from the few and into the hands of the many.

We reject terrorism and isolated acts by tiny groups. Instead we believe a mass movement needs to be built based on the support of the majority of the people – the working class. It is the working class that produces all the wealth in this society. The working class has no interest in keeping capitalism going. And the working class has the power, the size and the traditions of organisation to bring this rotten system crashing down.

We want to overcome every barrier that the capitalists use to divide us and weaken our struggles. We fight all forms of discrimination and oppression, whether on grounds of sex, race, nationality or sexuality.

We are internationalists, not nationalists. Capitalism is a global system, so we have to fight it globally. We want to leave the borders and divisions of nations behind and move forward to a truly global and united humanity, without bigotry, war and class division.

We stand shoulder to shoulder with our sisters and brothers in the Third World struggling to break free of the trillion dollar debt, the IMF, WTO and NATO.

We fight alongside anyone we share a goal with. And we organise for revolution – the only solution to the world’s woes. A socialist society would be based on direct democracy, collective ownership and democratic planning of the economy for human need, not private greed.

In REVOLUTION you won’t be a pawn in a group run by unelected people who boss you about. REVOLUTION is owned and controlled by its members. There are a wide range of different views, ideas and interests in REVOLUTION – everyone can have a say and we make all our decisions democratically.

That’s what we stand for. You can find more information in our manifesto. If you want to help, you can join us today. Or contact a group in your country.