2026-03-06.1_The Peoples Want - a people

“A people is always several things at once. It can be deceived, oppressed, participate in its own defeat or that of others. It can be divided with each fragment fighting each other. But a people can also, on rare occasions, rally around a collective will to free itself from the political class that governs it. It’s only through coming together, even if ephemerally, despite obstacles and contradictions, that the various segments of the margins, together with dissidents of the centres, have created a people with a new meaning. A people with revolutionary potential.”

• The Peoples Want Manifesto, pg. 19-20

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