By Jason Wyatt, Unite rep, Tata Steel, Port Talbot The British steel industry is forever in crisis. Decades of deindustrialisation have hollowed out once proud steel towns, and every time the industry is hit by another blow, it’s workers, never shareholders, never governments, who are left to pay the price. The fire at Port Talbot on 5 June is just ...

By Eira Ekenberg-Jones, Rhondda Cynon Taff Socialist Party Cardiff Trans Pride called an emergency demo in response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s new guidance. Despite the extremely warm weather, the demo saw a great turnout of around 400 people. The organisers unfortunately declined to associate with any trade unions or parties. We agreed to attend regardless, making ...

The price of everything is cranking up again, our services – the NHS, schools, universities, local councils – are crumbling from years of austerity. And despite a Labour government promising change, two years on, it feels like nothing has. Attacks on pensioners’ winter fuel payments, disability benefit cuts, the initial refusal to remove the cruel two-child benefit cap, hiring Mandelson ...

By Eira Ekenberg-Jones The Socialist Party, alongside Caerphilly Trades Union Council and Unite the Union, hosted a benefit gig in Pontypridd, south Wales, for the striking Birmingham bin workers. Countless people, mainly young, flooded in from the street, completely filling our venue. The atmosphere was electric, lively, and unforgettable. Multiple local musicians performed. For a month prior, our RCT Socialist ...

2026 marks the centenary of Britain’s general strike. From 4-12 May 1926, workers tasted power, in what is the most important event yet in the history of the British working class. Ian Pattison, the Socialist campaigns organiser, describes events. When the trade unions were discussing the possibility of a general strike in 2012, John Hannett, then the right-wing general secretary of ...

Hospitality worker in Merthyr Tydfil On 16 April, Nigel Farage and his team, including the Welsh Reform leader and Senedd candidate Dan Thomas, came to Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales on the election campaign trail. Unfortunately my workplace was one of the hospitality venues they used to publicise their campaign of division and hate, and the senior management equally capitalised on ...

Socialist Party member Ben Golightly is an elected coordinator for Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) Cymru. He is the lead Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in Gwyr Abertawe (Swansea and Gower) for the Welsh Senedd elections. £200 a month has been cut from new Universal Credit claims for those unable to work. This is biting now. And it was voted ...

Socialist Party member John Williams is the lead Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf (Cardiff North and East) for the Welsh Senedd elections. He is a young hospitality worker, LGBT+ activist, and chair of Cardiff general branch of Unite the Union. “A lot of people in my industry think that politics isn’t for them, that the establishment ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1360 ‘An injury to one is an injury to all.’ That basic idea of trade unionism is bringing union members to the streets in big numbers on the ‘Together Against the Far Right’ demonstration on 28 March. Organising to change a situation where there is growing fear of racist attacks is part of what trade unions ...

By Helen Pattison, Socialist Party Executive Committee The economic impact of the US-Israel war with Iran has begun to be felt around the world. Oil prices rose to a four-year high of over $120 a barrel and fluctuates hour by hour as the war goes on. Keir Starmer is clearly worried that rising inflation will make his government even more ...