The Alliance for Green Socialism (AGS) is a socialist and environmentalist political grouping operating across the United Kingdom (although its most active membership is in West Yorkshire, particularly in Leeds). It was formed in 2003 following a merger between the Leeds Left Alliance (formed by Mike Davies, Celia Foote, Garth Frankland and other former members of the Labour Party) and the Green Socialist Network (whose origins lie in the former Communist Party of Great Britain). The Leeds Left Alliance had previously been involved in the former Socialist Alliance and a small number of AGS members remained involved in it until it was dissolved by the SWP (who had effectively taken it over) in February 2005. The AGS sponsored an attempt by the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform to re-for