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Seventy per cent of the world's population have not made their first phone call. REVOLUTION believes this is wrong and fights for free communication for all.

Media

Corporate ownership of the media leads to a number of things:

Conflicts of interests between accurate reporting and the businesses that own/control/ subsidise the media.

An unrepresentative press: the views expressed are of the middle class journalists and not of ordinary people.

Socialising is more important for youth than any other group in society. ?It?s is a necessary part of our development. Yet under capitalism youth cultures are both repressed and exploited. Hip hop artists, punk and even mainstream musicians like Brittany Spears are attacked by the right-wing as immoral, while at the same time as corporations try to profit from the new market by ripping youth culture off and selling it back to us at expensive prices. We believe that to build a revolutionary youth movement it is essential to identify and relate to popular youth cultures.

We live in a society that criminalises and bans countless forms of sexual expression, including consenting sex between young people. Banning consensual sex does not protect young people from abuse.

A world that denies the sexuality of young people is a world which denies the existence of sexual abuse and makes the victims feel to blame, rather than teaching young people in advance about problems they may face and to speak out about it.

REVOLUTION fights for:

No laws against consenting sex - no criminalisation of ?underage? lovers.

Strict laws against rape and domestic violence.

Under the capitalist system, where the nuclear family is held up as "normality" to preserve the reproduction of the working class, gay and lesbian relationships are not given the same legal status or social legitimacy as heterosexual relationships. Gay men and lesbians are discriminated against at school or work and are blamed for the "moral decline of the nation" by the moral brigade. They are subject to homophobic abuse on the streets.

Women are the majority of humanity but are everywhere victims of systematic discrimination, oppression and sexual abuse. In many parts of the world women are consigned almost entirely to the home, denied basic democratic and economic rights, forced to carry out unpaid domestic labour and subject to oppression and violence from men.

The working class is an international class. There is no national solution to the crises caused by global capitalism. The capitalists often try to turn the workers of one country against another through rousing national hatreds and promoting myths of national superiority.

REVOLUTION rejects nationalism and fights for an international movement based on the greatest possible solidarity and unity between the workers of different countries.

Fascism is the most extreme and brutal form of capitalist oppression and is used as a last resort when capitalism is in crisis

Fascist demagogues mix racist lies with socialist rhetoric in order to make middle class youth and workers to turn away from the class struggle. Fascism's ultimate aim is to destroy working class unity through terror and ideologies that are racist, homophobic, sexist, and anti-democratic.

Imperialism justifies its plunder of whole continents by racism ? the warped concept that the ?white race? is biologically superior to the populations of Africa, India and the Asia-Pacific region.

During the time of colonialism the plundering of whole continents were justified with race biology, which claimed the white race's biological supremacy over the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin Americas.

Trade unions are the basic self-defence organisations of the working class. REVOLUTION supports trade unions and organising drives to build up the power of the workers.
Abolish all anti-union laws.

For the legal right to strike and right to organise.

All employers to recognise unions.

But bureaucratic union leaders get higher wages than their members and owe their position to a permanent cycle of negotiation and compromise with capitalists. They often sell out the workers in return for deals with capitalists.

he capitalists claim their system means global freedom for all. But in every country, any pretence of freedom vanishes at the factory gate.
Today as recession bites, the employers are trying to make the workers pay for the crisis. Capitalists everywhere are forcing through low pay, job cuts, longer hours, fewer breaks, speed-ups and restrictions on union rights. In the era of globalisation, capitalists threaten to shift production abroad if workers do not agree to everything they demand.