"For Capitalism to survive it needs blood to suck" - Malcolm X

While the likes of you and me work and struggle all our lives, worrying about paying bills, job security or just generally getting by, the capitalists are living off our stress and hard work.

If you believe people should come before profit, then you are against Capitalism, because capitalisms basic philosophy is maximizing profit, minimizing cost. In real terms maximizing their profits while minimizing our cost. That means using us when they need us and chucking us out when they don’t, that means casual contracts, hire & fire workplaces and bad health & safety conditions. And the more we do nothing to resist, the more they will take not only from us but from the worlds resources; this means continually cutting down rainforests – thus reducing oxygen levels in the atmosphere, dumping toxic waste, polluting the atmosphere thus causing the freak weather and climate changes. Not to mention increasing starvation in the 3rd world and the extinction of numerous animal species.

People Not Profit have been building a new movement in Liverpool, one that is part of the anti-Capitalism movement, a movement that has been growing massively, worldwide, over the last year. We realize we must unite across the world with other anti-capitalists and our resistance must be one, because our enemy Capitalism and its pushers, corporations and governments are one. From the mass demos in Seattle, Washington to the recent demos in Prague in the Czech Republic. We have shown to the world’s moneymen that they are not going to use us and our world to feed their greedy lifestyles. But we also know that this new movement is only just beginning. This is why we believe first and foremost in starting where you are, in your home city.

Our aim is to encourage people to believe another world is possible, to promote solidarity, caring, confidence - to get back to a world that is real, a world against the competitiveness, materialism, money grabbing attitudes that capitalsists have been pushing, that have become dominant more and more in the Western world over the last 20 years. We believe most people want to live in a world were work and resources are geared towards benefiting the interests of all of us, the old, the young and not just the greedy few. We know there is enough food, resources and energy to house, feed and keep warm the whole world, but we also know it doesn’t suit the interests nor profits of the of huge corporations who control the world resources to do that. We believe the majority of people in this world care about their fellow human beings and the environment and that they don’t just want what’s in it for them. Despite what is promoted through the capitalist controlled media.

People Not Profit aim to work in a number of ways to resist oppression and promote Anti-Capitalism principals and ideas. We do this and will continue to do this through social events, demos, newsletters, the distribution of literature, art, poetry, theatre, music, and any other creative and interesting way we think will promote our ideas. We also promote and support any cause that fights against corporations and capitalism, and we are building and will continue to build a network of volunteers whose ideas and beliefs are like ours - to fight and expose this corrupt capitalist system. We also aim to publicise and become an umbrella group and focal point for individuals and groups who are sympathetic to our aims.

People Not Profit are a group of individuals; we are not run by any political party and we work in a non-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian manner so as to make sure it stays that way. We are against anyone or any group, be they sympathetic or not, that wishes to control our ideas or our lives. We believe we are at a critical time in local, national and world politics and the crucial question is – will it be us who win, the people who want to see a better, fairer world, or will it be them the tiny minority who are prepared to take us and our world to the point of extinction in their thirst for profit.