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We walk with social justice movements to foster transformative change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are a strategic hub partnering with grassroots movements. We facilitate the building of a conducive ecosystem to enable stronger, effective and more impactful social justice movements. We catalyse and hold spaces for movements to critically reflect, build strategies, work out ways to make an impact, define the bigger “we”, connect immediate struggles with visions of the longer-term, as well as enabling the building of solidarity, education, training and political development.
We believe that grassroots self-agency, organised popular power, and strategically effective movements are central to winning transformative social justice.
Our vision means that we believe in the thoroughgoing transformation of society. This requires a long-term and integrated political programme based on the following components:
  1. Sustained mass mobilisation;
  2. From mobilisation to building sustained organisation;
  3. Deep and direct popular democracy;
  4. Deepening democracy in the formal political system;
  5. Community transformation and cohesion – through collective healing and well-being, community power, and the rebuilding of a strong social fabric conducive to equitable and decent human development;
  6. Ending racial oppression;
  7. Ending gender oppression and hetero-patriarchy;
  8. Radical feminist politics;
  9. Decolonisation;
  10. Pan-African and global south solidarity;
  11. Advancing the solidarity economy alternative;
  12. Democratising the economy as a whole; and
  13. Climate justice based on a deep, just transition to a zero carbon economy.
 
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Thoroughgoing Transformation of Society
Our vision means that we believe in the thoroughgoing transformation of society. This requires a long-term and integrated political programme based on the following components:
  1. Sustained mass mobilisation;
  2. From mobilisation to building sustained organisation;
  • Deep and direct popular democracy;
  1. Deepening democracy in the formal political system;
  2. Community transformation and cohesion – through collective healing and well-being, community power, and the rebuilding of a strong social fabric conducive to equitable and decent human development;
  3. Ending racial oppression;
  • Ending gender oppression and hetero-patriarchy;
  • Radical feminist politics;
  1. Decolonisation;
  2. Pan-African and global south solidarity;
  3. Advancing the solidarity economy alternative;
  • Democratising the economy as a whole; and
  • Climate justice based on a deep just transition to a zero carbon economy.