The movement for Revolutionary Reparations
a global policy for reparations from enslavement and colonialism and a pathway to systemic political, economic and social change
An action plan for reparative justice and system change
The movement for Revolutionary Reparations builds on existing radical and revolutionary approaches for global reparations and system change for the children of enslaved Africans, all colonised people, workers and humanity.
It for radical movements who want to link up with others in order to have a meaningful strike on global capitalism with a single, strategic radical policy approach.
Our revolutionary financial transactions tax (FTT) is capable of bringing unprecedented social, political and economic change.
It needs a global grassroots non-violent mass movement of movements. It needs the energies of all those fighting justice from enslavement and colonialism to be aligned and strategic.
It is for people fighting against racism, fascism, inequality, patriarchy, sexism, gender discrimination, climate change and so on to see these issues as connected, intrinsic, inseparable, and inevitable to oppressive capitalist and imperialist politics - whether those are liberal or conservative governments.
5 steps to reparative justice and system change
Step 1: Design and co-ordinate Revolutionary Reparations
Link up revolutionary and radical anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist groups and movements.
Step 2: Build a global movement
Turn the vanguard into a irresistible mass movement that brings in allies, progressives and liberals.
Step 3: Make Revolutionary Reparations the law
Agitate and create for the political conditions that enable the policy for the Ubunutu Tax to be introduced in at least the G7 countries.
Step 4: Truth, healing and repair from the legacies of slavery and colonialism
First phase of reparative justice from slavery and colonialism where we heal and repair. Poverty, hunger and destitution are stopped from from funds raised by the financial transaction tax. Free food, housing, healthcare and education for humanity.
Step 5: Emancipation and liberation from capitalism and imperialism
Full reparative justice from slavery and colonialism. Dismantle capitalism and imperialism, its systematic oppression, exploitation and subjugation. Build just, equal and sustainable economies. Nothing but system change.Castro: A financial transaction tax will save the world
May the tax suggested by Nobel Prize Laureate James Tobin be imposed in a reasonable and effective way on the current speculative operations accounting for trillions of US dollars every 24 hours, then the United Nations, which cannot go on depending on meagre, inadequate, and belated donations and charities, will have one trillion US dollars annually to save and develop the world. Given the seriousness and urgency of the existing problems, which have become a real hazard for the very survival of our species on the planet, that is what would actually be needed before it is too late.
Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba
Trillions in finance
$15 trillion is traded through financial and commodity markets each day
Abolish the rich
A new billionaire is created every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds.
Strategic movement building
Revolutionaries and radicals must work together in unprecedented ways, build a single focus movement of movements for reparative justice that is able to bring system change.Patnaik: The British siphoned $45 trillion out of India alone
Between 1765 and 1938, the drain amounted to $45 trillion, taking India’s export surplus earnings as the measure, and compounding it at a 5% rate of interest. Indians were never credited with their own gold and forex earnings. Instead, the local producers here were ‘paid’ the rupee equivalent out of the budget—something you’d never find in any independent country. It would obviously have made an enormous difference if India’s huge international earnings had been retained within the country. India would have been far more developed, with much better health and social welfare indicators.
Dr. Utsa Patnaik, renowned Marxist Economist
Reparations
Overcoming generational trauma caused by enslavement and colonialism, and capitalist formation must be resourced in the trillions.Inequality still kills
The world’s ten richest men more than doubled their wealth from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion - at a rate of $1.3 billion a day - during the pandemic while the incomes of 99 per cent of humanity have fallen, with over 160 million people forced into poverty and inequality contributing to the death rate.A single objective
The legacy of enslavement and colonialism, the capitalist political economy, must ultimately be dismantled for emancipation and liberation.Nkrumah: There is no freedom in capitalism
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery. Racism is inseparable from capitalist economic development. For race is inextricably linked with class exploitation in a racist-capitalist power structure, capitalist exploitation and race oppression are complementary; the removal of one ensures the removal of the other.
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former President of Ghana
Emancipation and liberation
Capitalism must pay for truth, healing and repair, but full reparative justice is the dismantling of capitalism and system change.Transfer power to the people
Power must be taken away from the wealthy who govern us in order to break the imperialist cycle of war, exploitation, and oppression.The ultimate revolutionary struggle
Capitalism must be abolished in order to create an oppression-free, equal, safe, and sustainable world, which is essential to collective freedom, liberation, and emancipation from the legacies of enslavement and colonialism.Revolutionary Reparations takes power from the wealthy:
- delivers immediate economic reparations from the world’s Richest marketplace created through enslavement and colonialism
- dismantles capitalism and imperialism, the world’s longest running war in order to democracies that are just, peaceful, equal and sustainable.
- Reparations for enslavement and colonialism
- Dismantles capitalism, ending poverty and inequality
- Ends imperialism, the industrial military complex and abolish prisons
- Stops ecocide and climate change
- Ends structural discrimination and subjugation by race, sex, gender, caste and faith
Finance Capital: 'The engine of imperialism'
