REVOLUTION is an international revolutionary socialist youth movement.
We aim to overthrow global capitalism through workers’ revolution and replace it with a global communist system, based on production for need, not for profit.
We want to bring about a democratically planned global economy and through this create a world without classes, borders, private property, exploitation, oppression and war.
Capitalism must be overthrown
Global capitalism is a system based on private ownership of the world’s wealth by a minority class of exploiters. Production is for the profit of a few millionaires, not the needs of the majority of the six billion people on this planet.
Under this system, the world is divided into nation states ruled by capitalist politicians and manipulated by giant corporations under the guise of organisations like the World Trade Organisation(WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), etc. These states compete economically, politically and militarily for control of resources, territory and wealth, or form strategic alliances where they have shared interests.
All the major problems of the world – poverty, exploitation, underdevelopment of the Third World, recession, war, environmental disasters, racism, national hatred, the oppression of women and young people – are caused and sustained by capitalism. That is why it must be overthrown.
A revolutionary youth movement
Everywhere young people are coming to the forefront of resistance. In the mass rebellion in Argentina youth confronted the police on the streets and drove President De la Rua from power. On the streets of Seattle, Quebec, Gothenburg and Genoa, it was young people who played a heroic role in blockading the summits of the capitalists and fighting back against police attacks on protesters. In the West Bank and Gaza, it has been the Palestinian youth who have shown unbelievable bravery resisting the tanks and troops of the occupying Israeli Army.
Young people are naturally more radical and self-sacrificing than other layers of the population. Oppressed and pushed about in the home, denied rights at school, discriminated against at work, sent off to fight and die in capitalist wars yet denied a vote in elections, subjected to petty rules and harassed by the police, the youth of the world have much to be radical about. What is more, young people have not been through the same cycle of defeats as the older generations, have less to lose and everywhere show huge reserves of idealism and the desire for a future free from poverty and oppression.
Young people need an organisation of our own – an organisation that belongs to us and is not under the control of any ‘adult’ party or movement. We need to do it ourselves. Only in this way – by making our own initiatives, learning from our own mistakes and developing our own methods of campaigning, will we be able to bring hundreds of thousands of young people into revolutionary struggle.
REVOLUTION campaigns against every crime of capitalism. We will take joint action with all other progressive movements wherever we share common goals.
But REVOLUTION is more than just an activist group. We also resist the capitalists’ propaganda war. We fight to persuade the majority of working class youth and students that capitalism is not invincible, that the world is ready for fundamental change and that a new communist society is not a pipedream but possible and necessary.
