By Dave Reid Hundreds of people in Covid-hit Rhondda Cynon Taff were turned away from a local Serco-run testing centre after the UK government had imposed a quota of just 60 tests because of high demand in England that the private corporations contracted to process the tests could not cope with. This happened despite when Rhondda Cynon Taff is on ...

By Dave Reid The rise in coronavirus cases that has led an announcement of a partial lock-down in Caerphilly county has caused worry and concern for many people in the area. The Welsh government has imposed the lock-down as the number of confirmed cases of cases of Covid-19 has risen above 50 per 100,000. Welsh health minister, Vaughn Gething, said ...

By Dave Reid Over 400 G E Aircraft Engine Services workers and supporters marched through Caerphilly in a socially-distanced but lively demonstration to save jobs at the Nantgarw plant. GE has announced the loss of 369 jobs out of a workforce of 1350 which threatens the long-term future of the aircraft engine plant. Jobs at GE are hi-tech, highly skilled ...

By Dave Reid Mark Drakeford’s Welsh Labour government has made much of the “four nations approach” to tackling the Covid-19 crisis, claiming to plot a different course to the Tory Westminster government. But the reality is that the Welsh government has been more like a small boat being pulled in the wake of an ocean liner. And in the case ...

A mass campaign by working class people in RCT has forced the Welsh government into a humiliating retreat

By Dave Reid Over 1200 health workers in the NHS in Wales have signed a letter (below) appealing to the Welsh government to step in to provide the necessary resources to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and end the scandalous situation in our hospitals where patients and NHS workers and their families are falling ill to the virus due only to ...

a key demand is for the Welsh government and the health board to withdraw the South Wales Programme and support the permanent retention of A&E at the Royal Glam

By Dave Reid The 2019 general election marks a significant but temporary defeat for working people in Wales. The Johnson government looks set to implement a series of reactionary measures against working people and the cuts to NHS and other public services will continue. Inevitably the right-wing capitalist media are baying for blood to not just force Corbyn out but ...

Gan Dave Reid Mae etholiad cyffredin 2019 yn drechiad sylweddol ond dros dro i weithwyr yng Nghymru. Mae’n debyg bydd llywodraeth Johnson yn gweithredu cyfres o fesurau  yn erbyn gweithwyr a bydd toriadau i’r GIG a gwasanaethau cyhoeddus eraill yn parhau. Yn anochel mae’r cyfryngau cyfalafol asgell dde yn udo am waed nid yn unig i geisio gorfodi Corbyn i ...

By Dave Reid University workers, members of the University and College Union (UCU), at Cardiff University, Bangor University and University of Wales, have completed eight days of strike action as part of a national strike and prepared for further action next year if the employers do not negotiate to resolve the issues in dispute. The strike was an inspiring movement ...