The group's activities gained massive popularity, allowing "I Don't Pay" to become a social movement, and its actions expanded to organizing anti-fascist and anti-racist demonstrations, labor disputes and general strikes.
[1] The main organizers of the movement also wishes to provide a left-wing counterweight to the far-right activism of Golden Dawn, which also focused on protesting austerity.
[11] By 2011, the movement inspired a mass campaigning of civil disobedience in which ordinary citizens refused to pay for road tolls, bus tickets or doctors' consultations fees.
[1] In its manifesto, the party stated that it emerged as a movement because of the crisis of capitalist, and that it constitutes "a new form of struggle of working and lower middle classes".
It interpreted refusal to pay toll fees and taxes as resistance against the transfer of social assets to private companies and banks.
The Greek government is denounced as the main initation of austerity measures such as new taxation, wage and pesnions cuts, and abolition of pension rights.
The movement seeks to represent "the exploited social strata" and secure people's free access to public goods along with the creation of a solidarity network.