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The argument

Reparative Justice

Why we ask for repair, and why real repair means changing the whole system.

Revolutionary Reparations delivers the economic means for truth, healing and repair.

Revolutionary Reparations delivers system change from capitalism for our emancipation and liberation.

There is no holistic reparative justice without Revolutionary Reparations.

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In this guide

The idea

  1. What reparations meanThe rich of Western Europe enslaved and colonised millions of people. Their stolen wealth built capitalism. So real repair must change the whole system.3 min read
  2. Truth, healing and repairHealing from enslavement and colonialism needs money. A small tax on the financial markets can pay for it.2 min read
  3. Emancipation and liberationCapitalism cannot be fixed or made fair. As the tax rises, it takes power from the rich, so that we can build something new.3 min read
  4. Who the movement is forCampaigners, workers and thinkers who see racism, sexism, war and climate change as parts of one system.1 min read

What capitalism does

  1. Race, work and genderRacism was invented to excuse slavery. Capitalism still treats our bodies and our work as things to own and sell.4 min read
  2. Land, law and protestColonisers made land private and wrote the laws we live by. Those laws still protect their wealth.4 min read
  3. Wealth, crisis and reformA few people grow richer while the rest of us live from one crisis to the next. Reform has not changed this.4 min read
  4. Empire and propagandaWars protect the wealth of the few. And a small number of rich owners control much of what we read and hear.5 min read

Myths, and the way out

  1. Myths about capitalismCapitalism is sold as freedom and democracy. Green and ethical business is sold as the fix. Neither is true.4 min read
  2. Climate and inequalityThe planet is not overcrowded. The rich use far more than everyone else, and aid does not change that.4 min read
  3. Liberation for everyoneCapitalism divides us by race, class and sex, and it harms our minds. Together, we can all be free.2 min read