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TUC must not abandon disability cuts fight

By Ben Golightly (Swansea Socialist Party) In 2025, the TUC (Trades Union Congress) unanimously passed motions 38 and 39 opposing the UK government’s disability cuts and calling for coordinated and sustained trade union action. Since then, however, the TUC has taken the position that it does not need to implement these actions due to the concession that Personal Independence Payment ...

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Consequences of Welsh NHS cuts

By Ben Golightly, Cardiff East Socialist Party The Welsh Ambulance Service recently declared an ‘extraordinary incident’ in Swansea, with 16 ambulances simultaneously queuing outside A&E, one waiting 28 hours. It’s a shocking headline, but I found nothing extraordinary about it at all. A few weeks ago, my gran broke her leg in a fall, spent 23 hours waiting for an ...

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