By Ross Saunders Biggest TUSC council election stand offers alternative Liar Boris Johnson and his Tories were given a bloody nose in the 2022 council elections in Wales, but none of the other parties of the Welsh capitalist establishment were able to fully take advantage of the developing anger at Tory rule. Labour now controls eight councils, Plaid Cymru four, ...

By Ross Saunders Pablo Iglesias, one of the founders of Podemos and its most prominent representative, announced his resignation from politics earlier this year – the tenth anniversary of the movement of the indignados which gave birth to the new party. Ross Sauunders looks back at the formation of Podemos, its development, and the mistakes of its leaders which have ...

By Ross Saunders The Welsh government’s strategy for containing the virus is not working. Wales currently has the highest infection rate in the UK and a record 1800 people in hospital with the disease – higher than during the first wave. But the Welsh government’s half-measures response will neither stop the spread of the virus nor protect the incomes of ...

By Ross Saunders The Welsh government is imposing a national “firebreak” lockdown from Friday, as the second wave of the corona virus washes over the country. From Friday 23rd October to Monday 9th November everyone will be asked to stay at home and many workplaces in leisure, retail and hospitality will shut. Children in years 9 and above will also ...

Br Ross Saunders Protesters marched in Cardiff on Sunday as part the wave of international solidarity for Jacob Blake which swept around the world after Blake was shot in the back by Police in Wisconsin on the 23rd August.The protest also highlighted the case of Mercy Baguma, a Ugandan asylum seeker who was found dead in Glasgow next to her baby, ...

Over a hundred gathered in Cardiff at a protest organised at short notice in solidarity with LGBTQ activists who are being persecuted by the Polish government. President Andrzej Duda has attacked the rights of LGBTQ people, emboldening bigots across the country. Towns run by right-wing parties have declared themselves “LGBT-free zones” and many face harassment or are forced back into the ...

By Ross Saunders Campaigners in Wales are urging the Welsh Government to reconsider its reckless plan to re-open to all children on the 29th June.   Campaign group Parents for Safety First has called an online public meeting for 6pm on Wednesday 24th June (Zoom ID:854 4340 1884). The group gained 4000 supporters on its Facebook group in its first week and organised car-convoy ...

By Ross Saunders Boris Johnson’s response to the new coronavirus epidemic has been one of the most inept of all the leaders of the capitalist world. That the Welsh government, which could have taken a sharply contrasting independent line, instead followed in his footsteps as he lost his balance, makes a farce out of a tragedy. Wales should immediately and ...

By Ross Saunders Two storms in a week brought some of the worst floods in living memory to Wales and parts of England and Scotland, killing at least five people and damaging thousands of homes. Big business didn’t send the rain. But the distorted priorities of the profit-obsessed capitalist system are to blame for the misery that ordinary people must ...

By Ross Saunders The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) published its report this week on the death of Beth Roper, who died in an accident on a train near Bristol last December. The report has been anticipated by many in South Wales: Beth’s tragic death at just 28 was a great loss to her family, her numerous friends and the ...