ARC UP operates on the sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation. Our respects to their elders, First Nations today, and generations to come. Sovereignty has never been ceded in so-called Australia.

The most exploited and oppressed people in our context are under-represented within unions and organisations on the left. This means many who face the most injustice are without the tools to fight it, nor the ability to shape class struggle into the future.

In order to correct this, programs must be built that are capable of overcoming current barriers to participation to build the power of the racialised working class. The goal of Arc Up is to build such a program.

Beginning in 2021, we spent 3 years building our structures, membership base and program. We hold majority places in our membership for racialised people and workers to help us construct and test our program as an organised force within migrant workplaces, movements for sovereignty and land back, and within the broader workers movement.

The decline in the workers movement and the decline in the left’s ability to win its demands is linked. It’s time we built power capable of winning.

If you want to get involved, read our positions and get in touch via the join page.

Solidarity,
ARC UP.