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Cardiff Community Fights Nursery Closure

By Dani Smith On Wednesday, members of the St Mellons community and Socialist Party Wales members gathered outside the Church of the Resurrection St Mellons to protest the eviction and subsequent closure of Little Fishes Nursery School. The nursery has served the community from the church premises for 30 years and is widely recognised as one of the only affordable ...

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Hundreds at Welsh solidarity protest of George Floyd racist murder

By Dani Smith Around 200 people took part in a socially distanced demonstration held by the Black Lives Matter campaign in Cardiff. This turnout – which is fantastic in light of the pandemic and the rapid nature of the development of the protest movement around the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis – reflects a burning desire amongst working people ...

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Covid deaths expose Wales’s class divide

By Dani Smith Jamie Jenkins, former head of health analysis at the Office for National Statistics, has this week highlighted stark inequalities in Covid-19 deaths in Wales. The ONS analysis shows 44.6 Covid-19 deaths for every 100,000 people in the poorest 20% of communities in Wales whereas in the wealthiest 20% of communities it was 23.3 deaths per 100,00 people, ...

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