Build the socialist opposition to Starmer’s Labour By Joe Fathallah, Cardiff Socialist Party As if working-class people are not already struggling enough with rising bills and prices, from this April essential bills are set to increase by an average of almost £250 for millions of households. Energy prices are projected to rise by an average of £47 a year, water ...

By Joe Fathallah On Monday 25 March, 3,000 junior doctors in Wales started their longest strike yet. The four-day strike is the third period of action this year. The BMA Cymru/Wales Junior Doctors Committee says pay has been cut by almost a third since 2008. The Labour-led Welsh government’s 5% offer is below inflation and the worst offer in the ...

By Joe Fathallah Over 3,000 farmers and agricultural workers descended on Cardiff on 28 February to protest outside the Senedd (parliament) against the Welsh government’s proposed changes to the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS). The plans would mean that, to continue to receive the subsidy, without which small farms could not exist, farmers would have to give up 10% of their ...

By Joe Fathallah In Wales, February means one thing – the Six Nations! The annual rugby tournament, in which the national team competes with England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy for the trophy, is a highlight of the year as town and city centres are packed out on match days, with supporters basking in the occasion, taking in the game, ...

By Joe Fathallah Unite members at Cardiff Council are now taking their eleventh week of strike action, against a Labour-run authority, for a decent pay increase in line with the cost of living. The workers have decided to concentrate on picketing County Hall, where most of the council meetings take place, for maximum impact. I got into a discussion on ...

At least 1500 people marched in Cardiff on Saturday October 21st against the war in Gaza.

By Joe Fathallah (Cardiff West Socialist Party) Hundreds of services could be cut from already meagre and expensive bus services in Wales as the Welsh government yet again passes on cuts from the Tory Westminster government while bus companies, either private or arms-length municipal companies that are run as if private, prioritise profit over service. Socialist Party members have kicked ...

By Joe Fathallah On the night of Monday 22nd May, rioting broke out on the Ely estate in western Cardiff. This was in response to tragic deaths of two teenagers, Harvey Evans and Kyrees Sullivan, in a road accident, following a chase with a vehicle belonging to South Wales Police. Alun Michael, the Labour Police and Crime Commissioner, initially attempted to deny the ...

Warning: This review contains a spoiler By Joe Fathallah, Cardiff West Socialist Party Snowpiercer is an American science fiction series broadcast by Netflix in the UK, starring the likes of Daveed Diggs, Jennifer Connolly, and Sean Bean. It is mostly set in 2026, seven years after a quick-fix attempt to stop climate change through chemical injection into the atmosphere backfires ...

Fight for democratic public ownership of social media By Joe Fathallah, Cardiff East Socialist Party Elon Musk, currently the world’s richest billionaire, has completed the takeover of micro-blogging platform Twitter for a sum of $44 billion. The New York Stock Exchange reported on 20 October that trading in Twitter’s shares had been suspended, with the reason “merger effective”. Musk himself ...