Gareth Bromhall, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party Swansea Pride is usually one of the earliest Pride events of the season. It took place this year on 17 May, weeks after the Supreme Court ruling being used to attack trans rights. Socialist Party members involved in Swansea Trades Council led a trade union bloc, while groups of queer, trans and pro-Palestinian ...

By Gareth Bromhall (Secretary Swansea Trades Council and socialist parliamentary candidate for Swansea West) Welsh Labour leader Vaughan Gething, who took up the position just three months ago, lost a vote of no confidence after two Labour Members of the Senedd (the Welsh Parliament), both critics of his leadership, were absent. At the centre of the controversy is a £200,000 ...

By Gareth Bromhall This year’s event was sponsored by Unite the Union, and the local Labour council. Controversially, the event was also sponsored by Great Western Railway. The local secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef made it known to the trade union bloc that his branch and union were nearing 30 months in dispute with this employer. Tory hostility The ...

By Gareth Bromhall, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council secretary Trade unionists and supporters gathered to celebrate international workers’ day at Swansea Trades Council’s annual May Day rally. The rally was called in support of steelworkers at Tata Steel at Port Talbot and Llanwern in Newport, and was headed by main speaker Jason Wyatt, a Unite rep ...

By Gareth Bromhall Following the recent spending review announcement Swansea and District Trades Council called a socially distanced rally in the city centre on Saturday 5th December. The event drew together socialists, activists and activists from across the city and the surrounding area. Speakers from several unions, surrounded by banners and a crowd of around 30, called on the Tory ...

By Gareth Bromhall Gareth Bromall (GB) spoke with a 12 year old pupil of Penyreol Comprehensive in Swansea about their experience of what going back to school was like last week. Penyreol Comprehensive has its own risk assessment that stipulates how social distancing will be maintained with a one way system in the school and bubbles for each year etc. ...

The protests against police violence and structural racism across the US, also condemned similar injustices in the U.K

By Gareth Bromhall Members of the Socialist Party attended the January 9th cabinet meeting of Swansea City council last week in what has become an annual event in Swansea as the only organised force in the city that have consistently challenged to council on cuts by putting forward a legal no cuts budget solution to the imposition of Tory austerity. ...

By Gareth Bromhall In the early hours of 26th April the town of Port Talbot was rocked by a large explosion that residents report sounded like a bomb and woke many across the community. The incident at the local Tata Steel plant, that employs thousands and maintains thousands more across the area, was caused by the spillage of molten metal ...

By Gareth Bromhall Build a movement to challenge the profit systemBuild mass walkouts on 15 March “We have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future. They have ignored us in the past and they will ignore us again. “We have come here to let them know that change is coming whether they like it or not. ...