, former leader of the Labour Party, will launch his
new Peace and Justice Project in a 90-minute online rally, today,
Sunday 17th January at 3pm.
The audience will hear speeches from international campaigners
including:
- Noam Chomsky, public intellectual
- Scarlett Westbrook, youth climate activist
- Ronnie Kasrils, minister in Nelson Mandela’s government
- Len McCluskey, Unite the Union general secretary
-
, Labour MP for Coventry South
- Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister
- Baroness Christine Blower, former National Union of Teachers
general secretary
Jeremy will announce four specific projects within each of the
Peace and Justice Project’s four main areas of work, and invite
supporters to get involved. Each project will be launched with a
policy paper, a network of organisations we will partner with,
and a campaign aim.
- The economic security project will organise direct support
for communities across the UK hit by the triple crisis of
austerity, the pandemic, and the new recession. We will work with
food banks, mutual aid groups, social organisations, and trade
unions, mobilising our supporters to provide assistance and
solidarity.
- The international justice project will campaign for a
Covid-19 vaccine available to all, and affordable everywhere.
This will initially involve a petition pressuring the UK
Government to drop their opposition to intellectual property laws
being relaxed, to speed up the vaccine rollout in the Global
South.
- The democratic society project will campaign for a more just,
free and accountable media; supporting public interest journalism
and challenging corporate monopolies, including launching a
campaign against Rupert Murdoch’s planned entry into UK TV news.
- The climate justice project will build a network with
environmental campaigners to develop bold and concrete plans for
a Green New Deal solutions, shaping debate ahead of the COP26
climate conference in November.
will say:
“The pandemic is intensifying three deep, connected and global
crises: the climate emergency, an economy that generates
inequality and insecurity faster than prosperity and freedom, and
a global order that holds back the vast majority of our planet’s
people and is dangerously breaking down.
“But we have both the ideas, and the power when we come together,
to overcome these crises, and build a world of peace and justice.
What our movement does today will be felt for generations to
come.
“Our role in the Peace and Justice Project will be to champion
those ideas and support the movements that can turn those ideas
into reality. Because if you refuse to argue for your side, our
opponents win by default.
“So many of the ideas we need to make the 2020s better than the
2010s were developed in and around the Labour Party in recent
years, by outstanding thinkers, but more importantly by demands
of our movements, and the skills, knowledge and needs of the
communities affected.
“We will build on these policies, taking them further, adapting
them to the post pandemic world, so that our movement can turn
the dial towards peace and justice.
“As we launch today, we will focus on four areas of work, and we
want you and the movements you’re involved in to take part.”
