We are young people and we’ve only ever known crisis. We’ve grown up in austerity and come of age in a pandemic, all while sailing past climate tipping points. Watching as storms and wildfires fill our phone screens, and then our streets. Our classrooms are overcrowded and our libraries have closed down. Our energy bills are unaffordable. Half our paychecks go on renting flats from landlords who don’t care if our ceilings rot from mould. Meanwhile, the billionaires and fossil fuel CEOs profiting from these crises have gotten richer and richer. And our political leaders have done nothing to stop it.
our fight
So far, this Labour government has let us down. The thing is, we know they can deliver the change we need. After all, it was the Labour Party that gave us the NHS, equal pay, and the world’s first Climate Change Act. But the truth is, they made those changes because a groundswell of people demanded it and relentlessly organised to make it happen – and we can do that again.
There’s no point denying it: what we’re up against is big. We’ve got Nigel Farage and his billionaire mates, pretending to care about whether we have decent jobs and warm homes. Piping up to tell us it’s all the fault of migrants or people on benefits that we don’t. Trying to pit us against one another so we don’t turn against multi-millionaires like him. But we know they are not on our side, and their solutions will only benefit them.
The only thing that has ever altered the course of history are huge disruptive movements willing to do what it takes to win. Movements that kept going even when their goal felt impossible. The people who came together to build the NHS, the trade unionists that fought for decent working conditions, and the activists that put their bodies on the line to win us equal rights. Now, our generation has a choice – to rise up and force this government to deliver, or watch our future burn up in front of our eyes and fall to the far-right.
We choose to fight.
we can win
We will not accept this as our future. It is not enough for us just to survive – we deserve to thrive.
They think they can cling to power while turning their backs on us. They can’t. This government’s electoral coalition is already crumbling, and the far-right are organising, ready to cash in on legitimate anger at the failure of the status quo.
They need our generation’s support to stay in power – in key battlegrounds from young urban cities to post-industrial towns. But not waiting for them to earn our votes. We’re building the pressure to make them worth voting for.
That means no more extortionate bills, while bosses cash in their bonuses. That means no more landlords charging rip-off rent, whilst painting over the mould in our bedrooms. And that means climate action – not just words. Action that actually meets the scale of the threat we face.
That means a Green New Deal.
A bold plan to tackle climate change at the speed and scale required. A plan that reprogrammes our economy so that its people, communities and ecosystems that matter, not profit. That will deliver a good green job to everyone that needs one and give everybody warm and affordable homes. It means putting power back into the hands of communities, whether that’s through publicly owned transport networks or making sure we put workers and local communities first as we move on from the era of fossil fuels. It’s a plan to face up to the UK’s historic exploitation of people and planet, redistributing wealth and support to those places that need it.
It is only with this kind of bold agenda that this government can deliver meaningful change in our lives, fight off the far-right and build the support they need to win again in 2029.
So we’re rising up.
our movement
We are a movement of young people from every part of the UK. We are millennial and Gen Z. We come from towns devastated by cuts and in cities choked by air pollution. We are black, brown and white. Queer, trans and disabled. In school, college and at university. In work and unemployed.
We know what it feels like to be afraid. But we also know what it feels like to be powerful. To come together to make change. To try.
We’ve organised together to build our movement, from Birmingham to Bristol, Coventry to Cardiff, Glasgow to Gateshead. We’ve knocked thousands of doors, challenged hundreds of politicians and held governments and opposition parties to account through our direct action. And in the 2024 general election, we elected 12 Green New Deal Champions to take the fight into the halls of Westminster as we continue to organise, and build power, on the streets.
We are young people and we are on a mission to take power out of the hands of the billionaires and the oil executives, and put it in the hands of our generation – it’s time to force this government to work for us.
Join us.
