Jeremy Corbyn will be making an appearance in Huddersfield tomorrow for the Conference of Resistance.
A newly-founded group campaigning to see the end of the cost-of-living crisis, inequality, and oppression known as The People’s Alliance for Change and Equality (PACE) will be holding the event.
PACE urges that this is not a one day event, but the start of a movement and new political force, run by the working-class, for the working-class.
Many independent local councillors will be attending, including activist and unionist Cllr Tanisha Bramwell.
“While I’m only just learning about PACE, what I’ve seen so far is promising. Any movement that’s genuinely led by and for working-class people deserves attention, especially now, when so many feel politically homeless.”
The motivation for PACE has been the large increase of Reform UK voters across the country.
Cllr Bramwell thinks the rise in votes is due to “a symptom of deep frustration, not a real shift in values. Many working-class people are disillusioned and want change, but they’re not necessarily aligned with the right-wing answers they’re being fed.”
Conservative Councillor Bill Armer isn’t surprised of Corbyn’s involvement, and believes PACE “sounds like a left-wing splinter group in the mould of a previous Corbyn interest… but without large-scale support.”
The conference will take place tomorrow, Saturday 10th of May at Huddersfield Mission on Lord Street.
It will begin at 2pm and conclude at 5pm.