We can’t win alone, we need compañerismo.
Abolishing labor exploitation requires collective action. To change the adverse and exploitative conditions that working class people face daily, we must take concerted action recognizing that our power lies in our numbers. Mutual aid spaces are a fundamental part of building collective power to push back against systems of oppression that pit us against each other. We must work to create a critical consciousness committed to compañerismo over the individual self-interest that we have been indoctrinated into.
When we organize, we win.
We have a responsibility to challenge abuse of power through organizing. We recognize the importance of individual empowerment, though our priority is building collective power which can only be achieved through organizing ourselves. When we bring people together, grounded in compañerismo and our joint willingness to take risks, organize and win, we build a grounded unity that allows us to strengthen the power of the working class.
We do what we say and say what we do.
Just as it’s important to learn from those before us, it’s important to not engage in the same mistakes. We believe in political education, applying our principles, and putting into practice what we learn to be accountable to our community, our collective processes and ourselves.
Combating liberalism paves the path for principled struggle.
To accomplish victories that shift our daily material reality, we need to tap into our radical imagination to envision and establish the world that we want to see. Our current conditions and the system that creates them, thrive on generating fear of anything outside the status quo. Engaging in constant, critical and constructive feedback allows us to create collective accountability, combat the liberal attitudes that we’ve been taught, and implement a collective culture of trust, growth and shared responsibility.
To work from below—not to seek to rise.
We believe that there’s leadership in all of us. We do not engage in saviorism, but rather enable worker protagonism and encourage direct action. Workers most directly affected by an issue should be the ones leading organizing efforts, sharing leadership with others, and making collective decisions to hold those in power accountable.