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
Read More →Fines penalise families with very legitimate reasons for keeping students off from school such as for prolonged illness and medical appointments.
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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.
Read More →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.
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the time is now.
This provides a brief statement of why we have come together, as working class activists, to form Rise.
Read More →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.
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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.
Read More →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.
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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
Read More →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.
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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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