By Scott Jones Internationalism in the 21st century and why only the working class can defeat the capitalist system and its wars, exploitation and other horrors, was the theme of a public rally hosted by the Committee for a Workers’ International in Berlin on 31 July. Opening the rally, Sascha Staničić, Sol (CWI Germany) spokesperson, pointed out that the “working ...

By Scott Jones The Chartist mural in Newport, a beautiful 200,000 piece mosaic in memory of working-class struggle, was destroyed in October 2013. But unlike the hated Colston statue in Bristol, Newport’s mural was destroyed completely legally – not by any protesters, but by Newport’s Labour council. This disgraceful act of vandalism sneakily pre-empted a planned protest to save it ...

Review of Black River by Louise Walsh By Scott Jones Aberfan, Hillsborough, Grenfell. Names synonymous with warnings ignored, corners cut and the disregard capitalism has for working class lives. There are parallels, too, between these disasters in how the media portrays victims and survivors. ‘Black River’, a novel by Louise Walsh, is about events after the Aberfan disaster. 116 people, ...

Welsh update of Chekhov an engrossing tale of 1980s class conflict By Scott Jones The Cherry Orchard is set in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1982. Yes, that’s right. It’s a modern retelling of the original written by Anton Chekhov just before the first Russian revolution in 1905. And it’s brilliant. Action revolves around an old manor house on the west Wales ...