By Joe Fathallah The final whistle blew just before 7pm on Sunday June 5th. Along with 33,000 other supporters at the Cardiff City Stadium, I leapt out of my seat in ecstasy. Wales had beaten Ukraine 1-0 in the World Cup playoff match, and qualified for our first World Cup in 64 years, taking place this autumn in Qatar. The ...

By Joe Fathallah, TUSC candidate for Grangetown I’m standing as a candidate in the Cardiff Council elections on May 5th, in Grangetown ward, for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. Grangetown has 44% of children growing up in poverty, and this is in no small part due to the actions of the council in passing on vicious cuts to our ...

By Joe Fathallah TUSC candidate for Grangetown ward, Cardiff One of the hardest-hitting aspects of the cost-of-living crisis has been the increase in the price of fuel, making running a car an unaffordable luxury for many. In this context, a free, reliable, and effective public transport system is a necessity we must fight for. In addition, public transport is essential ...

By Joe Fathallah The BBC Wales documentary ‘Death of Two Black Men: Police in the Spotlight’, shines a light on the horrific deaths of Mohamud Hassan and Mouayed Bashir, immediately after contact with South Wales Police. Mohamud Hassan, of Somali origin, was arrested at his home in Cardiff on 8 January 2021, and released without charge the following morning. His ...

By Joe Fathallah Up to 300 people attended a demonstration in Cardiff city centre on Saturday April 10th, organised by Young Socialists Wales, in support of Siyanda Mngaza, an innocent black woman serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence. In May 2019, Siyanda was brutally attacked whilst on a bank holiday weekend by a group of three people, two of them male ...

By Joe Fathallah A report from Heathcare Inspectorate Wales has exposed the terrible conditions faced by patients and staff at the Accident & Emergency of Wales’s biggest hospital, the University Hospital of Wales (UHW), following an inspection on 25th-27th March. Staff were reduced to tears due to the lack of time and resources available to properly care for patients. Some ...