Who we are
The Peace and Justice Project brings people together for social and economic justice, peace and human rights in Britain and across the world and was founded by Jeremy Corbyn in 2021.
Since its launch, the Peace and Justice Project has grown local, national and international campaigns. We connect people, communities and organisations through events and discussions on vital issues such as climate action, new economics and refugee protection.
With more campaigns to be launched in future, the Peace and Justice Project will continue to work with labour and social movements and provide platforms to those campaigning towards a future that works for the many, not the few.
Our Directors are Jeremy Corbyn MP and Pamela Fitzpatrick.
Our patrons:
Born in Athens, Yanis Varoufakis is a world-renowned economist and former finance minister for Greece. Currently the General Secretary of MeRA25, the “electoral wing” of DiEM25 in Greece. Founded in March 2018, the MeRA25 was the sixth most voted-for party, amassing nine Parliamentary seats in the 2019 legislative election.
Alicia Castro is an Argentine diplomat who served as Argentina’s ambassador to the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2016. She is a trade unionist and progressive who entered politics through the labour movement.
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. One of the world’s foremost public intellectuals, Chomsky has also been a tireless campaigner for progressive and socialist causes.
Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist and academic who has made wide-ranging contributions to progressive political theory. Most well-known for being the co-author of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, on post-structuralism and theories of identity, and redefining Leftist politics in terms of radical democracy.
Evo Morales served as President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as Bolivia’s first indigenous President, the former trade union organiser led his administration’s focus on the implantation of leftist polices and combating the influence of the United States and multinational corporations.
Ronnie Kasrils is a South African politician and military commander. The former minister in Nelson Mandela’s government was a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner and continues to campaign on human rights issues globally.
Lowkey is a British rapper and activist from London, tackling subjects from the Iraq War to the Grenfell Tower fire in his music. He is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and has been a prominent member of the Stop the War Coalition, speaking against the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization, best known for her work as a legal advisor and a participant in peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian organisations. She has since gone on to work as a political analyst at the Institute for Middle East Understanding.
Rafael Correa is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017, during which time his administration focused on drastic poverty reduction, raising the minimum wage, and promoting public ownership. Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR.
Paul Rogers is an Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Joint Service Command and Staff College (JSCSC), lecturing on changing drivers of international conflict with particular interests in the Middle East and paramilitary violence.
Michelle Stainistreet is an English trade unionist and journalist and now General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). Previously deputy secretary, she is the first woman to hold her post at the NUJ. In 2013, she was among those who gave their support to the People’s Assembly in a letter published by the Guardian newspaper.
Baroness Pauline Bryan is a Scottish writer and socialist campaigner. She is part of the Red Paper Collective, a group of Labour activists who aim to provide an alternative from the Labour movement to the “sterile nationalist v unionist debate” around the Scottish independence referendums.
Ken Loach is a lifelong social campaigner and an English award-winning filmmaker known for his hard-hitting films tackling social and political issues such as poverty and the welfare system (I, Daniel Blake), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, and labour rights (Riff-Raff, and The Navigators).
Rob Delaney is an American comedian, actor and writer; co-star, and co-writer of the show Catastrophe. He is also an activist on a range of progressive causes including protecting the National Health Service.
Len McCluskey is a British trade unionist and was the General Secretary of Unite the Union, the largest affiliate and a major donor to the Labour Party.