Reports by Alec Thraves, Ross Saunders, Dave Reid 1000 workers in the Welsh Ambulance Service in Unite took strike action today in pursuit of a decent pay rise. Across Wales there were lively picket lines. Gwent Beacon House Cwmbran At every picket line workers were at pains to explain they did not want to strike, but had little option. Low ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1205 The ‘Winter of Discontent 2022’ is on. Forty-four years after millions of workers went on strike in the one of the biggest periods of struggle since the 1926 General Strike, the phrase has continued to haunt the bosses and the capitalist establishment. Like then, the current strike wave, building by the week, has been ...

By John Williams, Unite Wales Young Members’ Committee (personal capacity) Young workers and trade unionists joined a lively protest outside Starbucks in Cardiff. Members of Unite the Union and the Bakers Union and supporters have mobilised in over 50 cities and towns to protest in solidarity with strikers in the USA who are striking against low pay and poor working ...

A socialist solution is necessary Editorial of the Socialist issue 1200 The final days of the Truss-led Tory government revealed a deeper than ever, jaw-dropping level of crisis in the Tory party. Following the total collapse of Liz Truss’s shortest ever Tory leadership, the party’s MPs were again thrown back to looking for the least potentially disastrous new leader they ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1199 written before the resignation of Truss but confirmed by subsequent events After twelve years of Tory-led governments lining the pockets of the richest and inflicting austerity on the majority, the Tories are reaching the end of the road. This Tory government is melting down in front of our eyes. Truss is on her way ...

By Bea Gardner How will we afford to keep the heating on? This is a question facing thousands of working-class households this winter, even after the government’s colossal energy bosses bailout. The poorer you are, the hardest you are hit by rising costs. Real inflation is far higher for the working class than it is for those with bigger incomes ...

By Josh Asker Liz Truss’ announcement of an estimated £150 billion bailout for the energy industry is not enough to even lower our bills. In fact, on 1 October the average typical household bill doubled from its level twelve months previously. The bailout, replicated in different ways across Europe, is a condemnation of the model of privatisation of the energy ...

By Swansea Socialist Party reporters Monday 10th October saw 100 or so trade unionists and community campaigners attend a rally jointly hosted by Swansea Trades Council and Wales TUC as part of the We Demand Better roadshow campaign. Chaired by WTUC GS Shav Taj, Speakers Included PCS GS Mark Serwotka,  Kevin Courtney GS of the NEU, John Leech AGS of ...

By Adam Harmsworth Energy bills rose dramatically for the second time this year on 1 October, deepening the fear in poorer households about how to make ends meet. Prices for everything keep rising while wages, benefits and pensions stagnate. In advance of the rise, poverty charities and Martin Lewis the ‘money-saving expert’ had been frantically telling people to submit meter ...

Editorial in the Socialist issue 1197 Faced with the chronically sick, deteriorating British economy, the Tories in government have swung from one path of crisis to another. Having failed over and over again to come up with policies that could improve the health of the capitalist system they represent, today they can barely think ahead beyond their chance of winning ...