Aims and Principles
Norwich Anarchists is an umbrella group that seeks to promote and campaign on various political, social, economic and environmental issues.
As a group we believe that society would be better for everyone if run along anarchist lines. In terms of organisation we wish primarily to have freedom from all imposed authority. As anarchists we are against all forms of goverrnment and wish to see local communities run by direct democracy, so that people are in control of their lives and communities.
We aim for economic as well as political change. We want freedom from economic exploitation. Under the current capitalist system, the working and middle classes do not receive the full products of our labour. The ruling class, who own the means of production, land and resources profit from our labour and our ideas. We believe this to be an unfair distribution of land and resources. We therefore support the abolition of capitalism and any other economic systems that create social classes.
We wish to create a classless society, where people interact with each other as equals, not as servants and masters. We want freedom from discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality, nationality or spiritual beliefs. We support various forms of active struggle against these forms of discrimination.
We believe in unity within the anarchist movement. We wish to bring anarchists of all forms together so we can fight our common enemies. We may not agree on everything concerning what we want, or even the actions we should take to create an anarchist society, but as we are all anarchists, we have enough things in common for us to work together.