- The Workers Theatre is democratically owned and managed by its workers for its workers, its city, and its world
- The Workers Theatre will put on shows that entertain and radicalise
- The Workers Theatre will take risks
- All labour is equal and should be equally well-paid
- The shit jobs should be shared
- Our art will be committed to the liberation of all people
- The Workers Theatre will find and explore new economic models that enable anyone to live from and enjoy art.
- The Workers Theatre rejects privatised profit as the enemy of good art
- The Workers Theatre will be professional, organised, and effective
- Our art will not be used for exploitation or gentrification – it will resist
- The Workers Theatre will be populist but not shit
- The Workers Theatre will be experimental but not shit
- The Workers Theatre rejects ‘edginess’ as a political statement
- The Workers Theatre can be any kind of theatre and theatre can be any kind of thing
- The Workers Theatre will be diverse – in its people, its content, and its discussions
- The Workers Theatre will be deeply comfortable and deeply accessible – a free community space
- The Workers Theatre will be a safer space, where everyone can feel welcomed and respected
- The Workers Theatre believes in pleasure
- The Workers Theatre is internationalist; it will tour and be toured to
- The Workers Theatre does not recognise borders
- The Workers Theatre aims to be truly independent, free of the restrictions of state and corporate funding — even if it takes a hundred years
- The Workers Theatre is a process, an experiment, a work of art, that will take time and compromise