RISE

POWER TO THE WORKING CLASS

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What we stand for

Rise is committed to transforming society through building independent working class power. Rise was established by a network of working class activists, trade unionists and socialists. Here you can read about some of the basic principles that inform our politics and what we do, and if this chimes with you, get in touch and get involved. We have a world to win.

DEMANDING CHANGE OR BUILDING POWER

Routes Towards a Working Class Offensive

“Hide nothing from the masses of our people … Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories”. – Amilcar Cabral

PROTEST AGAINST SCHOOL FINES

Fines penalise families with very legitimate reasons for keeping students off from school such as for prolonged illness and medical appointments.

DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST

Against Authoritarian Decline

The rights to protest and free speech were never generously granted by the British state or its ruling classes. Instead, these rights were won and defined by the struggles and radicalism of the working class over centuries.

AFTER THE ELECTION

Building the Working Class Offensive

This analyses the UK election results, criticising Labour’s win and the rise of the right. It argues for building independent working class power to address systemic capitalist crises that parties fail to solve.

A NEW DAWN

The Origins and Importance of May Day

The Origins and Importance of May Day. On this May Day we send fraternal greetings and solidarity to the struggling working classes around the world and re-commit ourselves to the pursuit of working class liberation, socialism and world peace.

WE HAVE A WORLD TO BUILD

the time is now.

This provides a brief statement of why we have come together, as working class activists, to form Rise.

CRISIS WITHOUT END

This provides a longer statement of the analysis and politics behind the founding of Rise, and situates our current struggles in the context of the crisis-ridden capitalist system. A system which only the working class has the power to free us from.

PEACE IN GAZA

Freedom for Palestine

The injustices that produce the conflict in occupied Palestine will continue until the structures of apartheid and colonialism are dismantled. There will be peace, but only when Palestine is free, from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea. Rise will work tirelessly to hasten the day.

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2024

Worthy Losers and Unworthy Victors

Voters in the local elections delivered a clear rejection of Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party. Reasons for their loss of seats are in plentiful supply and are understood all too well by all those struggling to pay their rents and bills, or unable to access basic health services without an extensive wait.

WAR AND IMPERIALISM

Rise is an organisation that seeks to help empower the working class, both domestically and internationally, to build a socialist society free from the capitalist system which perpetuates exploitation, inequality and war. In its place, a society based on international solidarity between the international working class needs to emerge

RESISTING CULTURE WAR CONSERVATISM

It seems almost certain that the next General Election in Britain will deliver a Labour government, with Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. Based on everything we know about Starmer and his restored Labour Party, and their public statements on taxation, welfare, civil liberties and international relations, the Starmer-led government will deliver, in effect, a version of do nothing conservatism.

STRIKES, PROTESTS AND BOYCOTTS

Rise position on trade unions

Trade unions are the strongest expression of working-class power in Britain today. From the advent of the capitalist mode of production and the exploitation it has inflicted on the people, workers have organised and formed trade unions out of solidarity and as a way to resist their exploitation and oppression.

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