Welcome to the League of Revolutionaries for a New America!

History is made by people who feel and know their worth and the powerful role they play when they struggle for what they believe in. History is made by those who work together to understand the real world and how to change it into the better world that is possible.

Systems change requires movements with clear organization. Clear organization means transparent processes, inclusive dialogue, political clarity, and highly committed people who undertake what is needed for the organization to fulfill its revolutionary role.

The purpose of this League Manual for Members is to explain how you fit into the League and how you can use it to advance our common revolutionary cause. The League is not an organization of “leaders and members” or “leaders and followers.” It is a democratic collective of revolutionaries.

Its program and ideas come from the constant study of the actual social and economic motion. It does not attempt to impose its own ideas and program on the real world. We constantly assess what is happening and what is needed based on information from all trusted sources.

World economic revolution has made world political revolution inevitable. The question is: What kind of revolution will it be? Our goal is a revolution that re-organizes society to heal its relation to nature and to nourish its billions of people — not only physically but also culturally, scientifically, politically, and creatively.

Building an organization that can navigate this kind of revolution requires a structure where all of its members have a voice in determining what is to be done and each has a specific responsibility in carrying that decision out.

We are committed to building such an organization. Understanding the world is only a first step. The point is to change it, and change requires organizational forms where revolutionaries can define and carry out the specific tasks of the revolution as it develops.

Climate catastrophe, unbridled inequality, and mass starvation, in this country as well as around the world point to the urgency for revolutionary fighters to combine their energies and ideas and work together for our common goals. This is the level of unity and organization necessary for revolutionaries to reach and teach the millions of people of this country who can determine the direction history will go.

In such an organization, each of us may have a different responsibility, but we are all leaders. In such an organization, all of us are constantly learning, and each of us makes an essential

contribution.

This “Membership Manual” is designed to clarify our processes and structure in order to maximize the contribution of each and every person in the League. It aims to equip each of us with the confidence and the understanding necessary to live out what it means to be a revolutionary in the urgent and historic moment we experience today.

Welcome to your League of Revolutionaries for a New America!

The mission of the League is to unite with other revolutionaries around the demands of the working class, especially the class of displaced workers, and show how the solution is a cooperative, communist society, in which social wealth is owned in common and distributed according to need.

Our goal is to reach the vast numbers of revolutionaries who are emerging from every battle for basic needs, as the economy rapidly reorganizes to eliminate human labor and many millions are stripped of their means of survival. Our focus is to engage with the scattered multitudes fighting the

devastation and social destruction, and work with them to create a clear vision of the solution.

Today the principal problem facing our movement is that millions of people are going into battle against the most powerful ruling class ever in history without a full consciousness of the cause of the

problem they face – or that the solution is to replace this system with a new cooperative economy.

We spread the idea that a society without poverty and exploitation is possible today, and, indeed, necessary to our future.

Your political work may involve a wide range of activities and organizations. Perhaps you are a veteran of countless campaigns. 

Perhaps you are at the point of defining your direction and deciding where to focus your energies. You may be in an area of numerous League members, or you may be in a relatively isolated area. Whatever the case, the League is here to help you spread revolutionary thinking, to maximize the energy of all revolutionaries and the movement as a whole.

As the crisis in our country deepens, millions throw themselves into movements for their basic needs, for survival itself. The movement needs a unified core of revolutionaries as never before.

The Manual for Members is a tool to provide answers to many of the questions you may have about the League. It covers policies and procedures, and mutual responsibilities. We are each responsible for reading and understanding this Manual for Members, for adhering to League policies and procedures, and proposing new ones as needed. The Manual is a work in progress and will be

updated with new and revised policies as they are developed. Use it in conjunction with the League’s National Convention documents.

These are the League Convention Documents adopted in 2022:

•The Political Resolution lays out how we see the world, the changes taking place, the vision of what it could be and our strategy for getting there. The political resolution is an estimate of the relationship of forces in the country and how those forces are moving.

•The Program is a precise formulation of the actual process, formulates our basic view and establishes our immediate political task. It embraces the whole movement.

•The Organizational Resolution outlines how we need to be organized to carry out the task as established in the Program.

•The Bylaws make that structure legal.

When the League recruits, its goal is not to pull people out of the social movements they are in, but rather to work together with them to build revolutionary consciousness within those movements.

All League members are guided by and carry out the League Program - our collective assessment of the objective situation and how we can win a society that takes care of the basic needs of the planet and the people.

The League bases itself in the sector of the workers that cannot meet its needs except by organizing and demanding them. Whether conscious or not, this is the fight for distribution according to need. League members help create political education to clarify the revolutionary nature of the fight for a society based on human needs and human rights – and the steps from here to there.

Members build the League and the revolutionary movement, contributing their ideas and analysis, raising and contributing funds, and working in their chosen fields. We work to get the message of the Program out and the lessons back in, listening to and learning from the movement as we participate in it.

Members must accept and carry out the League Program, participate in and build League collectives, and pay dues and support the organization financially.

Dues are paid at whatever level possible, as agreed by the collective. $20/month is standard for someone who is fully employed; many members give a supplementary amount in addition to dues. It is greatly preferred that one-time and/or monthly dues be paid electronically/online versus by check

or cash.

The basic collectives that bind the League to the movement are committees on fronts of struggle, but there are also collectives organized around areas of work or expertise, or geographic areas. Our Standard Operating Procedure is that everything goes to the collective, through the collective, and

from the collective. In collectives, members help to plan activity and take assignments to implement the work, especially exchanging written or digital ideas and materials among the individuals and groups you are working with, to maximize the energy of the thinking within the struggle.

The collective members strategize together, study and report, and hold each other accountable in the process. Every member and collective is responsible to participate in making political assessments and reporting these assessments to the League. Every member and collective is essential and the

information they have to provide is absolutely necessary. Recruitment and fundraising are also responsibilities of collectives, and goals and strategies for each are determined by each collective, with support from other League resources and collectives.

If you do not already have a collective when you join the League, we can work with you to find or build a collective to support your activity spreading revolutionary thinking throughout the movement.

On a national, statewide, and regional basis, members elected from local areas also work in collectives to lead and guide the national organization.