A contribution from PACE The genie is well and truly out of the bottle. Over recent weeks, the idea of a New Left party has migrated out of corners of the organised Left to take Britain by storm.  The new party (which, *pinch yourself* does not even exist yet) is already neck-and-neck with Labour…

People living near a former industrial site in Cleckheaton are demanding that Kirklees Council stop all building work immediately, after tests confirmed both brown and white asbestos in household dust and health problems have increased since construction began three months ago. The land, once home to chemical works, a foundry, an asbestos factory and an…

PACE fully backs the growing momentum toward launching a new national left party – one that can take on Starmer’s austerity government and push back the dangerous rise of Reform. The urgency for such a party has been made clear by Jeremy Corbyn and others at rallies and meetings in recent weeks. The time…

Labour’s Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced plans to proscribe Palestine Action (PA), labelling the group and its supporters as “terrorists.” This deeply authoritarian move would make membership in PA punishable by up to 14 years in prison—putting it on the same legal footing as Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the neo-Nazi group National Action. This…

At an historic Conference of Resistance in Huddersfield on 10 May, leading figures from across Britain’s left came together to launch the People’s Alliance for Change and Equality (PACE) – a new movement bringing together community campaigns, trade unionists and social movements in Kirklees to build a working-class socialist political alternative. In addition, the…