It is for those fighting for justice from enslavement and colonialism, its legacies and system change  and looking for a strategic political method.

• It is for people who want justice and reparations and who want to liberate and emancipate ourselves from the systemic and material legacies of enslavement and colonialism.
•  It is for people who want to revolutionise society at a systemic, global political and economic level by ending capitalism, imperialism (and neo-colonialism) once and for all, in order to end the world’s longest war.
• It is for people fighting against racism, fascism, inequality, patriarchy, sexism, gender discrimination, climate change and so on, and who see these issues as connected, intrinsic, inseparable, and inevitable to oppressive capitalist and imperialist politics - whether through liberalism or conservatism.
• It is for people who want to link up with other radicals and revolutionaries in a strategic way, to build a global grassroots non-violent movement that focusses on campaigning for a singular and precise policy that is able to bring about system change.

It is for people who include:

• Reparations campaigners, Black Marxists, Pan-Afrikanists, Critical Race Theorists and scholars from the Black Radical Tradition
• Feminists, anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists, revolutionary socialists, Marxists and communists
• Non-violent anarchists, anti-racists and anti-fascists
• Land defenders, indigenous people and environmentalists
• Post-Developmentalists and systemic decolonisers
• Marginalised, land defenders, indigenous people and environmentalists
• Anti-war and peace activists
• For all workers of the world and allies demanding and seeking justice and systemic 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.

Racist ideas were carried from 15th century Europe and developed by its merchants, slavers and colonisers. Racial superiority of White people over Black people was developed, initially to justify the enslavement of African people, and eventually to justify all the ways in which non-white people were exploited by the white colonial powers for centuries. Hand in hand with these developments and over the years, a whole body of ‘scientific’ arguments was developed and used to justify the mass genocides by colonial powers on the myth of race.

The injustice and horrors of enslavement and colonialism powered the Industrial Revolution in Europe and a new global economic system – capitalism. For centuries we been fighting against colonisers and their imperial plunder who have ensured every part of our world is afflicted with capitalism.

Capitalism is the embodiment of the labour and sacrifice of our dead ancestors, from their enslavement and colonisation by Western Europeans. Racism, xenophobia and fascism continue to be used by the capitalists class who created a corrupt system of global governance to ‘divide and rule’ the majority of the world’s population by force who became waged slave labour, where we must earn a wage in order to stay alive. Race makes a perennial underclass, it always has, and everyone above this underclass is faced with propaganda to form a united front whenever crises threatens the elites.

The logic of capitalism dictates that it in order for it to carry out its intended function, to grow and make profits, it must always racialise people, no matter the human cost. There will always be profit in racism and so it will continue in one permutation after another, reworked, reworded, reimagined until that is capitalism is abolished. We cannot undo racism, without undoing capitalism. Race is the modality in which class is lived. S. Hall 1978 Unlike other anti-capitalist movements, Revolutionary Reparations grounds itself in the experiences of the global majority, alongside workers everywhere.

The material legacy of enslavement and colonialism is the effective ownership and commoditisation of our bodies, land, food, housing, goods and resources signed into laws made by the wealthy.

• Under capitalism, our only capital is our body, which is at risk if we do not earn enough to look after it. We now must work, selling our labour (our bodies) for wages to buy commodities for us to stay alive.
• If we do not earn enough, we perish and capitalists continue exploiting others.
• Imperialists start new famines and wars (with bombs, propaganda and sanctions) to exploit new lands, markets and labourers to continue the cycle of destitution, exploitation, oppression, exclusion, whilst growing inequality, poverty, emissions, profit and ultimately power.

Capitalism is an economic system that can only function with classed, racialised and sexed workers creating value for capitalists.

• It can by definition never be an equitable system because there has to be a class of people working to live – the working class, who are also racialised and sexed/gendered in order to maintain hierarchies and implement divide and rule over the mass of the population.
• It creates destitution, poverty and inequality based on our characteristics of class, race and gender.
• Characteristic and identity based oppressions and destitutions are features of capitalism and imperialism to divide and rule us.

This violence on the body is never experienced by those with wealth and power.

• If someone is born into wealth, they and every future generation never needs to work in order to stay alive.
• They live without working, growing their wealth at exponential rates through rents, interest, dividends and other unearned income, widening inequality between themselves and the working class exponentially every second.
• Their wealth does not meaningfully get taxed as they (who include those in government and senior civil service), will not tax themselves to the extent that would require them to work for a living/become working class because a global radical non-violent tax policy movement has never materialised.

Gender liberation and gender justice means being explicit about the need to abolish capitalism, not offer reformist policies without any anti-capitalist intention. Only by dismantling capitalism and imperialism, and building radical, revolutionary, intersectional, socialist and communist political economies can we live in a world free of sexism, racism, classism and other forms of oppression.

One of the most important material legacies of enslavement and colonialism is the introduction of private land rights on a global scale (systemic mass enclosure).

• Capitalism commoditises land to be bought and sold by the richest people on earth to maximise profit
• Capitalism enables land and property to be hoarded and exploited by a very small amount of people at the expense of the majority of the world’s population.
• Once land is bought, it creates an unbreakable chain where the majority of the world’s population are forced onto poverty waged labour on plantations, in factories, shops and offices in order to live.
• Land is a finite resource and always subject to inflation under capitalism – not every single person in the world can own the same amount of land as financial institutions built on colonial empires, billionaires and monarchies.
• The largest land owners in the world are financial institutions who have virtually a limitless supply of wealth from which to purchase more land
• Inequality is predetermined to grow wider each second land remains privatised.

Land must be held under community, custodial ownership to handover to future generations in a better condition than we inherited it and cannot be bought and sold to the highest bidder.

Our world is already bountiful and rich, where everyone person is able to a live in home and benefit from the feeling of security if it were not for the legacies of enslavement and colonialism - capitalism and private property on a globalised scale embedded within it.

Revolutionary Reparations aims to break this most fundamental of chains around our necks and our predisposition to subjugation and inequality by dismantling capitalism, undemocratic power and the laws made by imperialists that keep it in place.

The legal systems we all live by were determined by colonisers and imperialists, mostly in the last 300 years.

• Political systems are not truly democratic because the policies and choices are limited and confined to the interest of capitalism and therefore make no material difference to the economic model or our suffering.
• The enslavement of Afrikan people and claiming of lands occupied by indigenous people in the Americas and Asia has for centuries became lawful through imperial violence, not democratic choice, paving the way for mass lawful abduction, rape and genocide.
• Today, nearly all new laws, cultures, education and criminalisation systems are designed to firmly keep capitalism in place – the nation state, private property, prisons, patents and profits have come to be normalised in a just 300 years despite humans being here for 300,000.
• If human existence on earth was to be defined as 1 hour, capitalism has been with us for just 3.6 seconds.

Today’s laws are based on racist and patriarchal laws written by colonialists who with violence, legalised slavery and colonialism and globalised capitalism. They continue to legalise our oppression, exploitation and subjugation in many ways.

Today’s laws are predominately written to maintain exploitation under capitalism such as military funding and imperial expansion, private property and its policing and protection, maximisation of wealth and profits and vast inequalities, corporate impunity and deregulation and in some countries, a welfare system that barely allows for human and social reproduction.

Only a singular, aligned, global grassroots movement is able to peacefully pierce imperialist and militarist law making and courts to enable the legislating of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist laws.

Wealth can never be levelled-up or made equal under capitalism, which means neither can power. When power is held by a minority, there can never be true democracy. Our government structures today are designed with this is mind. Only the dismantling of capitalism deliver democracy and the change to live in a world with reparative justice, peace, equality and sustainability.

Right wing propaganda protects capitalism by shutting down rational, logical and empathic thinking that would improve the conditions of society and our planet. Those with meaningful agendas for social change have been targeted, trolled, and made into the enemy of the state by right wing propaganda before they become mass movements.

Capitalists and imperialists do not respond to data and statistics about climate change, poverty and inequality – their interest is in profit before people. The right to protest for new ways of organising the economy is being taken away by capitalists, making authoritarianism a global problem.

Revolutionary Reparations is strategic and non-violent way to mobilise mass movements into making radical and revolutionary change to get justice and build an oppression free world, where the poor make the law, not the rich.

A new billionaire is created every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds.

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.

The world’s top 500 investment management companies manage $119 trillion in elite wealth.

• Private equity firms (comprised of individuals who privately own thousands of corporations and assets themselves) are valued at $4.5 trillion.
• Like all profits, this $123 trillion is idle, unproductive and exponentially growing wealth. $123 trillion is $16,000 shared between every human alive on Earth.

Hedge funds bosses are paid $1 billion a year – that is $4 million a day.

The financial sector are the ultimate owners of thousands of the world biggest and most important corporations around the world including energy, food and agriculture, health and medicines, military, construction etc..

The financial sector is the biggest owners of corporate land and other physical and financial assets.

The financial sector can easily dominate the funding of all major political parties and governments around the world.

The world’s elite are actually overflowing with money they are allowed to legally keep, this makes hunger, homelessness, poverty, destitution and death from them a choice made by governments.

An underclass of impoverished workers is an essential feature of capitalism – a hierarchical oppressive system of divide and rule.

The world’s elite include government employees who are shareholders and investors in financial assets and have an obvious conflict of interest with the majority of the world’s population who must work to live.

Global poverty and inequality are political choices made by protectors of capitalism who legally mandate that everyone must work, mostly in unfulfilling and unnecessary jobs whilst paying tax at a higher rate than the rich who avoid and evade tax through complex financial accounting processes.

Capitalist politicians, policy think tanks, liberal NGOs, academia and media spend vast resources to explain that capitalism brings efficiency, competition, choice, democracy, liberty and freedom if only it were regulated. People are led to believe capitalism is righteous In truth, capitalism rages from one crisis to the next destroying lives and the planet. The cost of living crisis, debt crisis, racist policing crisis, migrant deaths crisis, misogyny crisis, financial crisis, housing crisis, unemployment crisis, wages crisis, food price crisis, climate crisis, inflation crisis, renters crisis, ecological crisis, famine crisis, poverty crisis, mental health crisis, the constant war crisis are not accidents, they are features of capitalism. You cannot have capitalism without racism, sexism, climate change, debt etc. Oppression, subjugation and exploitation that we have constantly fought against, over and over again. We react to them using disorganised, disclocated, unstrategic and weak and even dangerous liberal reformist solutions that moves us 1 step forward and 5 steps back, which means the issues never go away and we repeat the cycle over and over again. Revolutionary Reparations is intended to be our last fight, our last strategic and specific fight for reparative justice and system change.

Populations are led to believe capitalism can be reformed and justice for enslavement and colonialism can occur within the existing political economic system, including judicial settings and academia.

• This is a myth that comes from conservative and liberal politicians, institutions including academia and the international development sector who encourage the study of enslavement and colonialism at the institutional level
• They encourage the study of reparations for example at the level of a particular corporation, family or country, not a the global political economy level.
• This creates a fetish for endless data, quantification and pontification, that undermine global and interconnected grassroots struggles, who do not need a graph to show their families and environments ravaged by the legacy of enslavement and colonialism - capitalism and destitution it brings.
• Academia, UN programmes and academia who focus on regulating capitalism give capitalism and imperialism credibility which harms the global south and the wage enslaved everywhere.
• They try to “debate” capital and seek to “engage with it”, and find “amicable solutions for change” which are nothing but placid engagements that maintains Capital and the status quo (oppression, subjugation and exploitation).
• Existing estimates of reparations are not systemic – they relate to a specific country or period of time.
• The movement for Revolutionary Reparations calculates the entire spoils of enslavement and colonialism in real time through the wholesale financial and commodity markets. This is a real time value of what they steal from is (the global majority/global waged enslaved) us everyday.

The wealth of enslavement and colonialism has created a global capitalist class who have created authoritarian and liberal democracies whose jobs are to protect global capitalism at all costs

• Capitalism is at its core is based on the violent exploitation of land, resources and workers which is backed by the world’s largest imperial military block, NATO
• Militarism can never bring peace, militarism is a tool used by oppressors to subjugate and exploit with inpunity. We must always reject military for peace and recognise it as imperialism.
• Full reparative justice and system change means dismantling capitalism and the industrial military complex created

As capitalism’s internal laws of operation require imperialist, violent intervention to oppress, subjugate and exploit humanity based on groupings and hierarchy, such as race, class and sex and so on, it logically cannot be reformed or regulated to end racism, classism (e.g economic inequality or cultural hegemony) or sexism, patriarchy etc.

Only by ending capitalism and its forced enclosure (ending private land and property ownership), asset stripping and bringing assets, wealth, technology, patents and resources under democratic control of the people without any motive of profit seeking can we get reparative justice.

“Epistemologies of the South are constellations of conceptions and practices that emerge from the perspective of social groups who have suffered injustices, from capitalism, from colonialism, from patriarchy and practices that challenge the procedures and validations of Western science. It is not the geographical South, as there are ‘Souths’ in the North.

In Southern epistemologies, there is no subject/object distinction, no absolute Truth, no neutrality. No science is value neutral. The South’s knowledge was born of struggle and provides epistemologies of resistance, and of alternatives when the West is in crisis.

We have learned from feminist epistemologies to challenge the patriarchal system Diversity, and diversity of opinion is no longer suppressed.”

Boaventura de Sousa Santos 2012

"When the very rich so controlled the means of communication that it would be almost impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions and so democracy would then be broken" Albert Einstein 1949

People, especially those in colonial empire capitalist countries, are bombarded with propaganda presented as intelligent, well-reasoned information from a wide variety of sources that promote liberal or conservative capitalist ideology that makes voters defend the status quo.

The truth is Capitalism prevents equality, democracy, liberty, freedom and rights because in the long run, capitalism will enable almost infinite concentrations of wealth and power, eroding democracy, freedoms and rights.

• The capitalist economy requires oppressive right-wing dictatorship and authoritarian states to be installed in order to carry out its absurdities and oppression as is being witnessed around the global world.
• In order to operate and make capitalism work for the very few, governments and corporations must actively wage war, cause man-made poverty, famine, inequality and incite racism, sexism and fascism. Capitalism can only function with imperialism but mainstream media are ideologically unable to understand this.
• Most mainstream media and academics hold ideologically liberal and conservative views that do not see (or admit to seeing) the violence or unsustainability that is inherent within capitalism. Despite the tremendous violence on earth, they fail to connect it to capitalism.

The horrors of capitalism around the world go unpunished because the rich write and administer the law, preventing freedom, peace, justice or equality. The ultimate fight is the revolutionary process required to overturn capitalism and imperialism, the legacies of enslavement and colonialism.

“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor” Victor Hugo, Chile.

Communication from revolutionary and radical groups is at present unco-ordinated, unstrategic and covers a wide area of issues that come from class, caste, race, sex and gender based discrimination, exploitation, oppression and exclusion (e.g in work, housing, education, health etc.) Communication is broad, unable to penetrate populations or give rise to mass movements as there is never a single revolutionary policy focus that can be won now.

Revolutionary Reparations takes a different approach. It is a strategic and highly focused communications message that can be endorsed by the world’s revolutionary and radical anti-capitalist and anti-imperialists groups, creating a unified message from all oppressed of how to change the system through non-violent means through the Ubuntu Restoration tax.

Populations are subjected to propaganda with the purpose of creating fear in populations that gives rise to individualist, nationalist and fascist tendencies. These include creating a hostile environment for migrants, racialising minorities communities, the false  War on Terror and global Islamophobia, the false war on drugs etc. These deflect attention attention from the constant crises of capitalism and imperialism and the power being claimed in the process. Most recently, this power has come through neoliberal policies that transfer power from the state to the private sector.

Propaganda creates artificial scarcity and competitive tendencies that ensure the proliferation of imperial backed capitalism. Imperialists have in essence, the unlimited financial resources to continue producing propaganda that is almost inescapable through TV, radio, media, social platforms, schools, universities, think tanks, films, songs, books etc. Propaganda that reinforces a global hierarchy that divides and rules populations by class, race, sex, gender, faith and so on, with Christian, white, male workers being on top.

Many radical and revolutionary groups attempt to combat imperialist propaganda without success. Revolutionary reparations aims to cut through liberal and conservative propaganda.

The most significant propaganda in human history has been by capitalists to associate capitalism and its characteristics of private ownership and profit with equality, democracy, liberty, freedom and rights.

Governments and its corporations are most concerned with hiding contradictions of capitalist societies:

• They say there is room at the top for everybody but there has to be a bottom for there to be a top in capitalism, a classes economic system. Revolutions Reparations aims to create a classless society.
• They say anyone can be who he or she wants to be but those with wealth, who never have to work have unattainable advantages and privileges. However, hard work has never equated to wealth under capitalism.
• They say we are free under liberal democracies but unless one is born into wealth, our labour must be sold and wages earned in order to live and thrive in a world now commoditised.
• The working class produces enough food for two worlds, but there are still millions of children who die of malnutrition every year
• If capitalism was so pure, why do we have so many right wing, authoritarian imperialist dictatorships in the world?
• Unsold electronic goods are simply crushed if they do not get sold before a newer model, with new features is released into the market.
• Airlines fly empty planes around the world in order just to keep their ground slots at airports

Capitalism has ever only been, and will always be the economy of choice for the rich as it returns maximum profits and power to them, not humanity.

Populations are led to believe myths that are promoted by capitalist countries such as capitalism can be benevolent, kind and is the best way to organise people, lands and resources into productive commodities.

Other myths espoused by liberals and conservatives include:

• “the problems in most societies are not systemic, but because of a malfunctioning part of the capitalist economy because of under-regulation or misregulation”
• “People only suffer under capitalism because they do not work hard enough”
• “Everyone can live the American Dream”
• “Russia’s failed attempt at communism means anything anti-capitalist or co-operative is automatically doomed to fail”
• “Humans are competitive by nature”

The relentless rise of so called ‘ethical’ businesses and standards such as ‘B Corp’ and buzzwords such as ‘eco’, ‘sustainable’, ‘green’, ‘renewable’, ‘socially responsible’, ‘impact investing’, even ‘Black Capitalism’, and many more relating to products, services and technologies over the last 30 years has not made the world materially better at a systemic level, and never will.

• It has not stopped or hindered the rate of capitalist accumulation, growth and exploitation or imperialist violence, with the world more divided and war-torn.
• Political decisions continue to harm and oppress us - the rate of inequality continues to rise at exponential levels, and the number of billionaires grows because of the foundational principles of capitalism.
• Millions around the world continue to protest racist and imperialist militarism that comes with capitalist exploitation.
• Imperialism through politically made hunger, poverty, inequality and vaccine apartheid kill millions each year.
• Scientists continue evidencing irreversible damage to the environment, ecosystems and biodiversity.

So called Black Capitalism and ‘ethical’ production and consumption promoted by governments, corporations, celebrities and media, and even NGOs and environmental movements hide the fundamental history and basic operation of capitalism, preventing systemic change.

• It was enslavement and colonialism, atrocities that have not been atoned for, that have given rise to our present blood-stained economy from which reparations and systemic change are ethically and morally necessary, not reformist and liberal campaigning and marketing.
• As the economy is blood stained, so too is all wealth derived within it for 500 years, everywhere in the world.

Therefore the genocidal and exploitative nature of capitalism (which can only function on racialisation, sexism, patriarchy, imperialist etc) and all wealth in it, means it is logically impossible to systemically make or buy ethical products, good and services.

Individual consumers are not to blame – we are forced to exist and participate in this system, and it is the system and those who protect it who are to blame. A system where five people hoard as much wealth as 50% of the population whilst millions die hungry each year and billions live in poverty.

Justice, emancipation and liberation from enslavement and colonialism can never be achieved through ethical capitalism, or other liberal buzzwords such as ‘kinder’, ‘compassionate’ or ‘Black’ capitalism, as these are myths and propaganda that keep the imperialist system, and its exploitation and injustices firmly in place.

The myth is promoted by academics and organisations with an ideological attachment to capitalist growth and hegemony despite its contradiction. It hides and normalises the horrors of capitalism and imperialism, and assumes (through imposition) that the world wants capitalism and that it is the only “logical” political economic path for humankind leaving no room for non-capitalist thinking.

If populations around the world had the same level of emissions as the average north American or European, we would need 5 more earths. The average Briton will emit more carbon in the first two weeks of a year, than a citizen from seven African countries would in an entire year. Capitalism is irrecoverably destroying our world for the pursuit of profit and luxury for the few and hiding its destruction through propaganda through popular media, science and academia and politics and news.

3.The myth of over-population propaganda is an Euro-centric, racist, patriarchal and liberal ideological attack on the global south that silences:

• Other cultures, values and ethics, and non-capitalist ways of organising the economy that are hundreds of times less energy dependent and in harmony with planet’s finite resources.
• The inhumane domination over bodies and labour, and the plunder of natural resources in pursuit of profit for a minority.

Western European and its settler colonies, made rich from enslaving, colonising and capitalising the planet are responsible for climate change. All data on climate change emissions since 1850 confirms this as they were responsible for burning fossil fuels, industrialisation and deforestation on an unimaginable scale, far beyond historical cumulative emissions of Russian and China.

Despite global hunger, poverty and unrest, the world is far from poor. It is dripping in wealth, held to secure power by a fraction of the world's population.

According to the CS Wealth Report, 2.17% of the world’s adults are in Europe and North America and they on average $237,000 in wealth. The rest of world’s share of adults (83%) each own $36,000 on average. Levels of global inequality are growing wider each second and there can never be any levelling up under capitalism. Not only are there not enough natural resources for every person in the world to live the lifestyle of an average person in the US with extraordinary levels of capitalist consumption and environmental footprint, capitalism depends on a classed, racialised and gendered hierarchy in order to grow. The global majority should reject this.

There are also far greater levels of inequality within countries in the global south which is maintained by local elites who are allied to Europe and its settler colonies. Under capitalism, historical property, land and assets is what underpins global wealth inequality. The foundations of wealth were laid by Europe and settler colonists 500 years ago through enslavement and colonisation - imperialist land grabs, violent installation of governments and rules of law, private property, money, banking and finance etc.

There will never be a equality and the meeting of levels of wealth between the global north and south under capitalism - only greater concentrations of inequality and power. The ownership of global assets by Europe and its settler colonies that begun 500 years enables their capital accumulation and concentrations of power

Only the seizure of assets for democratic control and use, and the building of a democratic political economy will materially change global inequality. These assets are used as leverage in the trading of the $15 trillion a day financial and commodity markets, most of which is in Europe and its settler colony, the US, and the target for the Ubuntu Restoration Tax.

The international development sector who expend enormous energies fighting for “economic justice” or “tax justice” through reformist campaigns mislead civil society and by doing so, enable harm under capitalism to continue.

They do not publicly state capitalism’s inherent contradictions such as perpetual inequality, racist origins and inherently racist, sexist, classist (and more) methods of operation nor the Western imperialism that must be unleashed by their own governments for capitalism’s survival.

The international development sector, dominated by funding from Europe and settler colonies cannot be ideologically anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, they need to be reinvented if they are to adopt Revolutionary Reparations.

For capitalism to function, it must subjugate and exploit humanity into artificial groups that it codified and regulates

• These are predominantly race, class and sex with many others
• It is why we understand capitalism to be racial capitalism and so on

In order to extract most wealth from workers, a hierarchy based on these groups is maintained by imperialism and capitalism where whiteness, Christianity and masculinity dominate.

71% of the world’s workers, who are in the global south/colonised countries are paid less than $10 dollars a day

• This is entirely due to the racial legacy of slavery and colonialism that endures today.
• By contrast, top hedge fund managers “earn” 4 million dollars a day in London and New York ($1 billion per annum).

Classism, racism and sexism etc., along with poverty are the fatal choices made by the rich to maintain the capitalist world order.

Wealth can never be levelled-up or made equal under capitalism, which means neither can power. When power is held by a minority, there can never be democracy. Our government structures today are designed with this is mind. Only the dismantling of capitalism deliver democracy and the change to live in a world with reparative justice, peace, equality and sustainability.

There has been a rising mental health crisis around the world as people continue to be ravaged by crisis after crisis caused by capitalism and imperialism.

Medical professionals and health and labour policies tend to locate mental disorder or psychological issues that need correction at the level of the individual, in line with the discourse of individualism prevalent in liberalism. Under capitalist regimes, government policy is to diagnose and fix people, not the political conditions that caused their distress such as being bombed, forced migration, precarious work, indebtedness, abuse, neglect, racialistion and much more. This conveniently depoliticises people’s distress and lays the blame on the individual being unable to cope with the reality of modern life and work

Liberation psychology founded in the 1980s by the Salvadorian activist and psychologist Ignacio Martín Baró argues that we cannot isolate “mental health problems” from our broader societal structures. Suffering emerges within people’s experiences and histories of oppression, subjugation, forced migration etc..

Liberation psychology sees people not as patients, but potential social actors in the project of freedom, valuing their own lineages, creativity and experience, rather than being forced into a white, eurocentric and individualistic idea of therapy. It directly challenges the social, cultural and political causes of distress through collective social action.

The movement for Revolutionary Reparations for reparative justice and system change enables us

• to speak our truth, heal and repair from enslavement and colonialism
• emancipate and liberate ourselves and all from the violence of capitalism, the legacy of enslavement and colonialism.